How did you start with Civ?

[DrSpike]

Many people at the site have been here since civ2......but some joined for CTP I expect.

[RGBVideo]

Civ 1 on my brother's PC in 1992 - at 5 years old.
Was the 3rd game I ever played. Learned to read Engrish before Finnish because of it.

[MrBaggins]

I started with Civ1, on PC. A friend recommended it... I bought it.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Mine might just about be one of the earliest....

in 1990 my family was in Malaysia. Dad brought home a brand spanking new 286 16MHz with 40MB hard disk drive and Civilization. I was 9 years old. I played that game more than RR Tycoon, more than the Learning Company games, more even than Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Doom came and went, as did Dune 2 and many others. Civ stayed dear until Civ2 in 1995 (IIRC). This was the new obsession for years until SMAC and CTP. The rest is just an avalanche of civ titles being released more and more often...

I owe civ for my interest and knowledge in history and geography - I always wanted to know what part of the world I was settling in, and when those advances were REALLY discovered, so I could beat the real world to them.

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by aaglo
It was 'love-at-first-sight'. The game really got me for good.

jep, same here.

[DrSpike]

Many people report love at first site. I bought Civ1 when it came out in the early 90s for my spanking new Amiga........I played it for 2 days and then left it on the shelf for a month or so. I was bored and gave it a second shot........and haven't looked back since.

[Panag]

hi ,

its so easy to get "the one more turn syndrome" , .......

its a great game to teach kids or people with disabilities something new and its just so great to relax and forget for a minute the troubles in world , .....

thanks Sid

have a nice day

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Many people report love at first site. I bought Civ1 when it came out in the early 90s for my spanking new Amiga........I played it for 2 days and then left it on the shelf for a month or so. I was bored and gave it a second shot........and haven't looked back since.

Afriend of mine, when I was in the Navy, bought a brand new Amiga and one game he had played before: Civilization.

People complain about how slow Civ3 is between turns, and I just laugh at them.

It had to be about 1992.

ACK!

[Jac de Molay]

Received a Tandy (Radio Shack) 286 laptop for christmas in '92. I was picking up some peripherals for it at the local store when the Civ Box caught my eye. Had extra money so I figured what the Hell.

Did the usual cursory glance at the megalithic instruction manual, and dove right in. It took about an hour to figure out what was going on. But once it clicked, I proceeded to play for 2 days straight sitting at the kitchen table. My family was entirely spooked at the lime-green complexion I was taking on, and my mother was seriously second-guessing whether the laptop was such a good idea after all.

There was no better feeling than watching that mighty American armada rolling across the vast ocean to unleash sheer hell upon the mongols. I still feel that way about SMAC, too.

[badams52]

Got in on the ground floor. A friend of mine gave me a copy of Civ I back in 1992? and that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

[Dre of Compton]

i started playing civ2 about half way through 2000, i didnd have a comp, but my nan did, so i started going to her house every weekend just to play it, none of my friends like it coz they recon its graphics are crap, but who needs good graphics when youve got a great game right, but i realy loved the extended game on ToT
but i hate civ3, its moved away from civ2 too much

[maciek]

My first civ game was Civ1 for Amiga 500, about 1990. It was OK, but nothing special.

It had a massive black manual, 4 floppies (double density). There was some sort of copy protection where you had to find a picture on a given page or something like that. I had to wait about 5 minutes for the game to finish creating the map, etc., the intro was getting annoying after a while.

Then I got Civ1 AGA (advanced graphics adapter with 256 colors on the screen, up to 24bit in super HAM ) for Amiga 1200, I think I got it in 1993 or 1994. The graphics were superb...

[Urban Ranger]

Re: How did you start with Civ?

Originally posted by Solver
So... how did you get started with the world of Civ?

MicroProse sent me a flyer about this great new game they were about to publish, called Civilization.

[Pieater]

I got started with Civ1 back in 92 cause my dad, being a programmer, got a Civ1 CD with a computer package and he gave it to me. Just about quit when I saw the blinking wagon and didn't know what to do. So glad I didn't! Two of my best friends and I got addicted, sharing the CD on a weekly rotating basis, where we spent our afternoons after school at whoever's house had the CD at the time. We played for a good 2 years straight like that. In 94 got Colonization, in 96 bought Civ2. Followed with SMAC, then CTP1/2, and unfortunately Civ3. I've regressed to Civ2:ToT and still play Civ1 and Colonization on occassion. Forever a Civ fanatic!

[Raptor007]

Civilization 1 on the Macintosh. Great game!!