Sid Meier's Civilization II is a turn-based strategy video game in the Civilization series, developed and published by MicroProse. It was first released in 1996 for the PC and later ported to the Sony PlayStation for 1998-1999 releases. In 2002, Atari (MicroProse's owner at the time) re-released the game for newer operating systems, such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP.