Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
1999
SimulatorStrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
DeveloperFiraxis Games
Legendary designer Sid Meier presents the next evolution in strategy games, with the most addictive, compelling gameplay yet. Explore the alien planet that is your new home and uncover its myriad mysteries. Discover over 75 extraordinary technologies. Build over 60 base upgrades and large scales secret projects for your empire. Conquer your enemies with a war machine that you design from over 32,000 possible unit types.
Original clip from this game
The substructure of the Universe regresses infinitely toward smaller and smaller components. Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons quarks. Each layer unraveled reveals new secrets, but also new mysteries. Academician Prokhor Zakharov. For I have tasted the fruit.
Used by
- Logic Bomb — Sub Atomic
Dynamic — TB Land
'In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, planted at the time of the first colonies, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth.'
From 'Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'
Intergalactic — Armstrong
- "D.N.A." @ 1:56
- "Billion years of evolution." @ 2:00
- "Render the native plant ..." @ 2:06
- "Lady Deirdre Skye: A Comparative Biology Of Planet." @ 2:20
- "Organonitrates will certainly change your mind in a hurry." @ 3:46
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Game)
Logic Bomb — Sub Atomic
Atoms ... Electrons ... Quarks ... the Universe
Behind electrons we find new mysteries.
From 'Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri' (PC game)
Prometheus — O.K. Computer
The senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled, but how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time? Might i just be a brain in a tank somewhere? Tricked all my life into believing in all the events of this world by some insane computer? two-three-0-two... two-two-four-six-seven... Termination of specimen advised.
Computer insane.
From the game 'Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'