Gamasutra has a quite lengthy article up detailing the history of one of the most inexplicably addictive games to be spawned from the mind of Sid Meier, Civilization.
Civilization is the game that is responsible for me wearing a smooth spot in my Super NES Mouse pad, and was the game I spent the most time with on the system. It’s amazing to me that the game has still managed to maintain that level of quality and addictiveness after so many years an iterations.
Link! (Gamasutra)