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Slogan

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I'm starting to doubt if Firaxis's slogan is The Firey Axis of Creativity. It might be Games that stand the Test of Time. --Munchkinguy 20:06, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

They may have changed it at some point. Anyway, it looks like it's the latter one. I changed it in the infobox. Frecklefoot | Talk 21:00, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
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There are two different internal links to the Gettysburg game, one for Sid meiers Gettysburg, and one for an unexistant Gettysburg(video game) page. I'me a noob to editing, so I dont know if I should change the link or create the second page (as a redirection?) Thanks.


List of games section

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Respected editor Zntrip changed the list of games sections from a bare list to a table. While I agree the old list was rather lacking, the table makes it look like the platforms the game was released the most important feature of the game:

Year Title Platform(s)
DS iOS Lin Mac PS3 PSP Wii Win WP Xbox X360
1997 Sid Meier's Gettysburg! No No No No No No No Yes No No No
1998 Sid Meier's Antietam! No No No No No No No Yes No No No
1999 Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri No No Yes Yes No No No Yes No No No
1999 Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire No No Yes Yes No No No Yes No No No

How about ONE column for platforms (see List of Electronic Arts games for an example) and a column with a very short description of the game? I think this would be far more useful. This would also save a lot of space, since Firaxis normally doesn't release games on a ton of platforms. Example:

Title Year Platform(s) Description
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! 1997 Win A real-time tactical video game of the Battle of Gettysburg
Sid Meier's Antietam! 1998 Win A real-time tactical video game of the Battle of Antietam
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 1999 Linux, Mac, Win A critically acclaimed science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire 1999 Linux, Mac, Win An expansion to Alpha Centauri

Like I said, I think the move to a table was a good one, but I'm not sure the columns are the most relevant for their games. Any thoughts? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 01:05, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New table for games

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Since no one responded above, how about something like this?

Title System Release date Publisher Ref(s)
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! (1997) Microsoft Windows 1997 [citation needed]
Sid Meier's Antietam! Microsoft Windows 1998 [citation needed]
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Microsoft Windows 1999 [citation needed]
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire Microsoft Windows 1999 [citation needed]
Sid Meier's Civilization III Microsoft Windows 2001 [citation needed]
Mac OS [citation needed]
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Play the World Microsoft Windows 2002 [citation needed]
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Conquests Microsoft Windows 2003 [citation needed]
Sid Meier's SimGolf Microsoft Windows 2002 [citation needed]

If no one objects, I'll finish it and add it to the article. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 09:40, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's cool. I like it. Tanisho4Real (talk) 12:28, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why no pronunciation?

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It always seemed obvious to me that it is a contraction of "fire-axis", and is pronounced that way, but a lot of people in youtube videos say "fer-AX-is", which seems absurd. And often they slur it to "frAXis". Any official info on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77Mike77 (talkcontribs) 20:06, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]