How did you start with Civ?

[Solver]

So... how did you get started with the world of Civ?

For me, Civ 1 was the first civ game. When I bought sound card + CD ROM drive + speakers, I also got one great CD with tons of various stuff on it. Among everything, it had Civ1. The description there said: "Revolutionary game by Sid Meier that sets new gaming standards" or something like that. Intrigued, I installed it. Prior to that point, most games I've seen were pretty boring, you know, all that Pacman stuff, etc. Well, except the classic Doom 2.

Upon first seeing Civ, my understanding approximately equaled zero, but after I saw Alexander speak to me, and after trying out my first revolution, I understood the game has to be great.

And here I am now, still playing it and the sequels .

[Alex]

Civ2 was my introduction to the civ universe.

I had a close friend (this was in 1997, I think) whom called me one afternoon to his house. He wanted to show me a new game that he had bought and he thought I would like to play.

There it was, Civilization II... He started a new game, played for a few turns while I watched drooling, completely amazed. Then he invited me to play a few turns (it was a SP game, btw). Two hours later, my girlfriend called me. She wanted to know why I had missed our date that afternoon.

I bought the game two days later, and my life was forever ruined.

[Maquiladora]

Civ1 was my first experience, a friend lent me his CD and a couple of other games when i got my first PC, i didnt think much when i first played it and didnt touch it for another year until i bought a second hand copy by chance, that was about 6 years ago now. Fascinating eh.

[Mark_Everson]

I saw a Civ I demo in a comp games store, and I was sucked in immediately. The amount of choices available for development, and watching my civ grow was really enthralling. A lot 'o' late nites there! I'm Still trying to recapture that feeling!

[Lemmy]

How did you start with Civ?

I didn't, i started with SMAC

[Nikolai]

Sometime after Civ2 had been released, I was introduced to the game by my father's cousins. I liked what I saw, but as I at that time was only a little child(10 years old I guess), I wasn't that good in english, and couldn't play the game without help. We also didn't have any computer at home at that time...

Therefore, I didn't play the game in a long time, not before I by a coincidence(right word?) found Civ1 by a link I found at the Internet. I was captured, and got lots of hours before the computer! And this was around 1998-99. Some months thereafter, I bought SMAC, played that massively and then lent Civ2 by a friend. Better and better!

Even now, I sometimes play Civ1 a little bit just for fun. Nostalgia...

[Method]

started with civ1 somehow....i have no idea where i got it though. seemed just to appear one day

[Gatekeeper]

I started with Civ I for the Super Nintendo. I can't remember how many carts I broke in frustration (and then re-purchased, because I was hooked) at first.

When Civ II became available for the Macintosh, I switched to that and am now planning on getting Civ III to go with Civ II once its completely available for the Mac platform.

Gatekeeper

[CapTVK]

no surprises for me. Having played some of Sid's earlier work: Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon. I knew exactly what to expect,a brilliant game.

[Immortal Wombat]

Playing Civ2 (borrowed) on a below-minimum-spec 486, with no sound, 16 colour graphics, and 10 minute turns.

Of course later I was glad I had no sound...

[Dauphin]

Bought Civ1 for the Amiga when it first came out (near enough). Came on 4 floppies and the incessant changing of discs was annoying, but the game had too much appeal for that to stop me.

I bought Colonization purely because it was another Microprose game by SidMeir and in the vein of Civilization. I bought Civ2 for the same reason.

When I heard CtP was coming out I thought, great. Elation turned to disappointment and delusionment way too quickly. It was a step back on Civ2. Until that point the genre had only been getting better.

~7 years on and I'm still waiting for a game that is better than Civ2 in all areas.

[Kassiopeia]

It was a summer a while ago... I, in my common manner, decided that summer was the perfect time for going out hiking, bicycling, swimming, sunbathing... not! I bought Civ2, since everyone I knew who had it had told me just how great it was. I got it, spent an afternoon in a hammock reading the manual (damn it was thick) and then sat down at my computer, and kicked some Indian butt I remember pollution being a big problem in my first games...

[Centauri18]

Civ2 on PC. I was at my dad's - my uncle lived with him at the time - and my uncle was really into computer games. So I found the disk on the computer desk, I figured no one was using it, so why not? I was instantly addicted.
I've been playing that type of game [Not to mention games like Age of Empires, Warcraft, Starcraft, and so on] ever since.
Not that you guys care, I'm sure.

[jdd2007]

civ2 was my introduction to the computer gaming world. i got it for my...hmm....9th birthday and spent a year addicted to it. then for my 10th birthday, i got mge. another year of that, then i got Age of Empires. i loved that and a year later i got the conquerors xpansion for my 12th birthday. for my 13th i got civ3 from warez. a few days later, i bought the mofo. yah, not that interesting, but its my little civ history.

[DrSpike]

I guess relatively it makes me old, but Civ1 on my Amiga was my introduction to the series......(sighs wistfully). As soon as I got my PC I got Civ2, which hadn't been out long, and I still play it now.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Centauri18
Not that you guys care, I'm sure.

Oh but we do. I call this "inductive consolation": it is good to know you're not alone in your addiction...

[Jamski]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I guess relatively it makes me old, but Civ1 on my Amiga was my introduction to the series......(sighs wistfully). As soon as I got my PC I got Civ2, which hadn't been out long, and I still play it now.

This means I'm old too.
Poo !

But I still have and use that Amiga, just for Civ 1

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Hehe I got mine out a year or so ago.........played Civ, Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and a bunch of others for nostalgia's sake. Civ (it's the oldest of those games) in particular looked absolutely awful.........good job the gameplay was so damn addictive.

[XarXo]

I bought a CD with some games, one of these was 25 mb compressed in an ARJ file (the biggest game in CD!! WOW!), I unarjed it and Civ II appeared. When I listened the drumbs, when I played the game... Oooohh... Yeeeees! It sucked my time for 6 months of making maps, playing them, etc... Finally I made eltaranna.com and started all. But Test of Time, CtP I/II, SMAC, and finally Civ III disappointed me too much. So now eltaranna.com is 1 year and some moths stopped from the last update. But Civ II always has a special place in my heart.

[Jamski]

Oh god, Cannon Fodder and Sensi Soccer. Those were the days. Perhaps we should have an "Old Amiga Games" forum please Mark ?!?!? Pretty please. We could talk about the good old days when a team of 4 "blob-men" with machine guns could keep us ocupied for weeks. And swearing at the T.V. !

-Jam

[Centauri18]

Good grief, that stuff is old. You people are old. I liked SMAC, and I still play CTP2, even though it's no real Civ game. But I like Civ3 better than Civ2 and I never played Civ1.
Maybe it's just me. Am I the only one who doesn't constantly nitpick Civ3 and just enjoys playing it?

[Jamski]

Originally posted by Centauri18
Am I the only one who doesn't constantly nitpick Civ3 and just enjoys playing it?

Probably not the only one, but in a small group. A lot of the posters on the forums (fora?) have played all the Civ games a LOT, and for a very long time. This makes people into perfectionists. After you have played your 1000th game of Civ3, you'll still like it, but you'll certainly find _something_ to "nitpick" about, even if its only the fact that the Roman's default colour should be white, and the Barbarians red.

As the song goes "You always hurt the one you love..." all sing along now.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by War of Art
Oh god, Cannon Fodder and Sensi Soccer. Those were the days. Perhaps we should have an "Old Amiga Games" forum please Mark ?!?!? Pretty please. We could talk about the good old days when a team of 4 "blob-men" with machine guns could keep us ocupied for weeks. And swearing at the T.V. !

-Jam

I had a cannon fodder nostalgai thread in the other games section a month or 2 ago. Find it and bump it.

I also had nostalgia threads on Monkey Island and Mega-lo-Mania.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Centauri18
Good grief, that stuff is old. You people are old.

Oi! Not that old......just old enough to see the birth of the civ franchise.

[Jamski]

The birth of the Civ franchise eh? Well, I was at college then. Do I count as old? I was playing RRTycoon as well. Does this count as an age multiplyer?

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Hope not, I loved RT, and I'm only 24.

[Jamski]

Ah, then we're both anceint (sp?) by modern gaming standards. I believe the "adult" age starts at 15 now-a-days. I bumped your Cannon Fodder thread BTW.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

I play MP (Quake and Warcraft mainly these days, but lots of other games in the past)......and there are plenty of gamers out there our age and older, but you do have to sift through the less mature players.

Many civvers are ancient (sorry ).......Ming and Rah being notable examples.

[Jamski]

How old is Ming then ? Or is this a bannable offence ?

_jam

[DrSpike]

Nearly 50 I think.......and I am one of the youngsters in the Civ2 crowd......so we aren't old.