"Casual games" changed my life

[Smidlee]

richardhutnik said:

Smidlee said:

 

 Why ? Is it because these games required more thinking than button mashing?   Just because Civilization was first a board game  I don't see why this would  make Civ 5 less of a video game.

Civilization, the computer game, is not based on the boardgame "Civilization" which was published by Avalon Hill (and others) but the computer game "Empire" I believe.   It also has stong ties to Simcity, and Sid Meier actually had Simcity in mind when he was originally doing it ("Empire" became the shift that made it what it became).

And there is clearly a difference between interactive fiction and a game, although videogames tends to be a catch all for them. 

 You can easily call Red Dead Redemption an interactive fiction.
 I do remember Empire yet I can see Sid Meier take some ideas especially tech age from the original board game. They finally did make a board game after the video game.