Civ through the years

For those who are unfamiliar with the franchise, Sid Meier's Civilization is a long-standing and well-received series of PC turn-based strategy games that have been around since 1991 when the game was published by once-proud computer game company MicroProse. Almost two decades later and Civilization V is released, though not by MicroProse as the company went belly-up a number of years back. The game, now published by Take-Two Interactive, has largely stayed true to its roots with mostly minor gameplay tweaks and alterations along the way. The graphics, on the other hand, have changed greatly since its MS-DOS origins.

For the sake of nostalgia, let's take a brief look back at the six core Civilization games to see how they've changed.