Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.

In August 2005 he said "We've been nonstop busy making other games over the past several years so the dinosaur game remains on the Sid Meierlf. U. Today Firaxis makes strategy games many of which are follow-ups to Meier titles such as the new Civilization games and Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004).

Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 and is a Director of Creative Development for computer game developer Firaxis Games which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. "Sid" Meier (born February 24 1954) is a Canadian-American programmer and designer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games most notably Civilization.