Congratulations, Sid!

The organisers of the 2008 Game Developer's Conference (to be held during Feb 18-22 in San Francisco) have just announced that they will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Sid Meier.

Congrats and many thanks, Sid. To this date I still very often play Civilization II and Railroad Tycoon II on my home computer. Although the latter game is not your creation but only a sequel to your original Railroad Tycoon, without your creations I would have lacked two important tools to kill my leisure time.