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==Legacy== {{quote box|quote=It was a great run. We should've done better. We had great people. <br> I think all our people are still very proud of their MicroProse days.|source=[[Bill Stealey]] in 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/the-father-of-civilization-584568276 |title=Sid Meier: The Father of Civilization |date=26 June 2013 |publisher=Kotaku.com |access-date=August 25, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907002802/http://kotaku.com/the-father-of-civilization-584568276 |archive-date=September 7, 2013 }}</ref>|align=left}} Sid Meier, who now works at Firaxis Games, eventually got the rights of most of his games back under his control from Atari Inc. ''[[Railroad Tycoon (series)|Railroad Tycoon]]'' series rights was sold to [[PopTop Software]], who developed ''[[Railroad Tycoon II]]'' and ''[[Railroad Tycoon 3]]''. Eventually, Poptop was acquired by [[Take-Two Interactive]], which later also acquired Firaxis as well, thus returning the rights to the series to Meier, resulting in ''[[Sid Meier's Railroads!]]'', released by Take-Two's [[2K Games]] along with a new ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004 video game)|Sid Meier's Pirates!]]'' and the new ''Civilization'' games, including ''[[Sid Meier's Civilization III]]'', ''[[Sid Meier's Civilization IV]]'', ''[[Sid Meier's Civilization V]]'', ''[[Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization]]'' and ''[[Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution]]''. Firaxis Games also developed the ''X-COM'' series' reboot ''[[XCOM: Enemy Unknown]]'', which was followed by [[2K Marin]]'s spin-off ''[[The Bureau: XCOM Declassified]]''. ''[[Master of Orion III]]'' was developed by [[Quicksilver Software]] and released under the Infogrames label. ''Falcon 4.0'' rights were sold to [[Graphsim Entertainment]], who developed ''[[Falcon 4.0: Allied Force]]''.
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