High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sid Meier`s Colonization is a computer game by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier released by MicroProse in 1994. It is a turn-based strategy game themed on the early European colonization of the New World, starting in 1492 and lasting until 1850. It was originally released for DOS, and later ported to Windows 3.1 (1995), the Amiga (1995) and Macintosh (1995). The DOS version ran at 320x200 resolution, the others in 640x480, but were otherwise identical and added no new features.