1. Galactic Civilizations OS/2 was the first commercial 32-bit game (1993)
2. Was also the first commercial game to support >256 colors
3. Was also the first commercial multithreaded game
4. Is the longest-running actively developed space strategy game
5. Is the top selling space 4X selling game of all time with >10 million total sales
6. Galactic Civilizations I (Windows) (2003) was the first commercial game to be digitally distributed on the same day as retail
7. Was also the first commercial game to support Intel hyper-threading
8. First commercial game to have a multithreaded computer AI
9. Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor is the highest rated (metacritic) space strategy game of all time
10. Galactic Civilizations III is the first commercial 64-bit strategy game
11. Is also the first commercial game to have a scaleable (more cores>faster) AI.
12. Is also the first strategy game to support >100 players in a single game (CK2 supports >100)
13. Is also the first game to support more than 250,000 tiles (over 400,000 tiles)

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