How did you start with Civ?

[Jamski]

I got it from www.Amazon.co.uk , together with Alien Xfire very cheaply, and didn't play anything else for 3 or 4 months. Thats saying something.

-Jam

[Centauri18]

I mean, you're not that old. I'm only nineteen, after all. But then I don't remember the early Civ games. I played Civ2 and never bothered with Civ1. Played only the newer games as they came by. My uncle - whom I admittedly swiped my old copy of Civ2 from - noticed me playing it and said that he got impatient by the Middle Ages and said I could keep it. He played Warcraft and so I got hooked on Warcraft and Starcraft. I would spend entire days on Age of Empires. I seriously would like a copy of Age of Mythology.
I'm just saying that we move in a fast-paced society. I remember polaying PacMan as a kid and thinking the Atari 2600 was "cool."
Damn! I'm old too!

[Method]

Originally posted by DrSpike
It's kinda hard to find but get it with the expansion, Alien Crossfire, if you can.

i found SMAC quite readily available, but AX is damn hard to find.

[DrSpike]

So I found as well but WOA says you can get it from Amazon......so maybe it's more common than I thought.

[Inverse Icarus]

civ1 / civnet.

OLDSKOOLERZ UNITE!!!

[Solver]

You still playing Civnet, Uber ?

[War4ever]

found it on my gfs old old computer

[MoonWolf]

It was Civ1... In the early 90s, 92 or 93 I think it was. One of the first games to our 386! I got it from a friend (warez and pirate copies were simply not an issue in my then young mind... ). I played it really much. The first times, after several hours with this game, I used to dream about it when I went to sleep. And my friend whom I got it from, tought me how to edit the files so the opening credit names and text would be my own! I was so amazed when I saw how he added Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler to the openeing text!

After playing it for a looong while, I started to recognize the random made maps... And then Civ2 with it's scenarios and Test of Time arrived. Had a lot of fun with those. Btw, civ3 is the only civ-game I've played without returning to the previous version for a while...

[MoonWolf]

Originally posted by War of Art


Any chance of a bit of sugar ? Like my boss going on holiday for a year ? Or Alt-Tab support for Civ3. Then I could kill it when he came round the corner.

-Jam

Alt-tab works fine for me... Try setting your screen resolution to the same as Civ3 uses (1024x768) and see if it helps.

[Jamski]

Ah, that could be the problem. Or this heap of s**t 15" monitor that I have at work could disallow that res. I'll have to check...


...Ah, everything looks smaller now ! I'll try and install tommorrow.

-Jam

[Alex]

Originally posted by War of Art
...Ah, everything looks smaller now ! I'll try and install tommorrow.

-Jam

hehe, now that I have a calm and hidden place here at work I'll install it too...

[Harovan]

I started with a "borrowed" and later bought Colonization. Later I played CivI/II/III, SMAC/X and CtP1/2. Games I enjoyed most are Colonization and CivII/III.

[ColdWizard]

i first played civ1 on my dad's amiga, but i didn't play that much (relatively). the big breakthrough was when someone gave me a burned copy of civ2 (don't worry, i ended up buying FW, got someone to buy me MGE, and later bought another copy of civ2). Hooked from then on (excepting for civ3, but i still play 2)

[aaglo]

I think that the first time I played Civ1 is 1992. It was 'love-at-first-sight'. The game really got me for good.

[Odin]

I was burning time in the eloctronics area in Wal-Mart when I saw a book that said "Civilization: Call to Power stratagy guide." I checked the book out and I saw all the stuff and I became obsessed with getting the game. The rest is history. That was 3 years ago, I was 13. My mom said I was glued to the PC when I was playing.

I am I the only poster who started with CtP1 ?!?