http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/18/tech/gaming-gadgets/civilization-ii-ten-years/index.html
My favorite line from the related thread that started it all...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii
"...I was forced to do away with democracy roughly a thousand years ago because it was endangering my empire."