Sid Meier receiving Lifetime Achievement award at GDC
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Jan 8th 2008 at 5:30PM }
At this year's Game Developers Conference, Sid Meier will receive a lifetime achievement honor during the Game Developers Choice Awards -- he will then promptly be whacked with a shovel and buried in the Moscone Center basement. How awkward to give Meier a "one-foot-in-the-grave" award while he's still making games. Last year's winner was Shigeru Miyamoto who obviously still has steam left in him, and the year before that it was Richard Garriott -- actually, they kinda have a point on that one.Jamil Moledina, executive director of the Game Developers Conference, states Meier is receiving the award because he's been creating "fun and intelligent games for a diverse public long before it was popular." And despite the implication of a Lifetime Achievement Award we hope he still does it for at least another decade.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
LaughingTarget @ Jan 8th 2008 5:34PM
Great choice. I've sunk more hours into Sid Meier games than any other developer or franchise in gaming. No exageration.
ColossalHat @ Jan 8th 2008 5:44PM
I don't blame you, he and Will Wright are the kings of sandbox gaming.
Dogmeat @ Jan 8th 2008 5:56PM
Pirates yay!
Wilson @ Jan 8th 2008 6:03PM
you mean:
Pirates ARRR!!!!
NukeAssault @ Jan 8th 2008 5:45PM
Haven't played nay of the games hes worked on. But i tip my hat to him. Quite an honor.
JonFitt @ Jan 8th 2008 5:50PM
Well hopefully Sid will be able to look back and say "I won that lifetime achievement award quite early in my career".
Long live Sid Meier!
thethirdmoose @ Jan 8th 2008 6:07PM
CIV IV ftw!
ChiTownRuler23 @ Jan 8th 2008 6:24PM
so what will his Gamerscore be after he gets this achievement? lol
Wilson @ Jan 8th 2008 6:37PM
I was just thinking this XD
Jonah Falcon @ Jan 8th 2008 11:11PM
http://achievements.schrankmonster.de/Achievement.aspx?text=You%20win%20Game%20Developer%20Conference%20Award
Jonah Falcon @ Jan 8th 2008 11:15PM
http://achievements.schrankmonster.de/Achievement.aspx?text=Lifetime%20of%20making%20addictive%20games
GMonkey @ Jan 8th 2008 6:29PM
Sid Meier is clearly an evil man.
Civilization is too good and obviously part of a secret plot to control humanity.
LaughingTarget @ Jan 8th 2008 6:52PM
Bull, he is teaching us how to built space ships to Alpha Centauri and dump all of our efforts into science early on so we can crush the competing swordsmen with our tanks and marines.
GMonkey @ Jan 8th 2008 8:58PM
All I know that is that Sid Meier has taken away more nights of sleep away from me than I bear to think of, and has been responsible for too many pissed off girlfriends and parents.
Learning how to rule the world is definitely not worth all this aggravation.
Jonah Falcon @ Jan 8th 2008 11:09PM
In high school, I played Pirates! thru 4am - and woke up for class 3 hours later (it was a long train ride to Bx Sci). I was thoroughly addicted to Pirates.
josh @ Jan 9th 2008 1:28PM
I can't think of anyone else more deserving, he has created some of my favorite games of all time.