How did you start with Civ?

[Henrik]

Originally posted by Raptor007
Civilization 1 on the Macintosh. Great game!!

[War4ever]

civ 1 period was a great game

[Tamerlin]

Games are a passion since 1982 when I discovered Dungeons & Dragons (I was 15 at this time), I have played many RPGs, wargames and boardgames since and my favorites have long been Avalon Hill's Civilization, Advanced Civilization and Age of Renaissance.

After I bought my first computer (a Pentium 200 MMX with a 4 Mo SVGA graphic card) I quickly spotted a game called Sid Meier's Civilization II which looked very close to the old Avalon Hill's classic. I bought the game (it was a box with Civ2, Fantastic Worlds and the other add-on I don't remember the name), installed it, opened the Tutorial... and played for months and months until I discovered Call to Power 2 (I was not convinced by the first CtP)... I am no more playing Civ2 now (and I have not liked Civ3 at all) but I still remember vividly the days I played Civ2 until sunrise...

...one more turn and I go to bed.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
I discovered Dungeons & Dragons (I was 15 at this time)

Hah! I was only 11. Not quite as early as 1982 though.
Incidentally, underdogs has both advanced civ and history of the world as abandonware. I will not link to them though as that is now


Started playing civ in the early 90's after a brother, erm, "aquired" it (I've bought all the rest though Sid, honest. :halo: ) along with several other games.
He didn't realise what he had but I did.
Civ rules!

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by ravagon


Hah! I was only 11. Not quite as early as 1982 though.

Yes, but I must be one of the few ones still playing Role Playing Games (and some D&D 3rd edition) at 36...

About History of the World and Advanced Civilization as abandonware... you should rather play the original paper & cards boardgames...

[RGBVideo]

Civilization 1 on the Macintosh.

Were there any differences between that and the PC-version?

[The Strangers]

I was in a mate's house a long while back when he got his first PC. With it came a compilation disk of games, and Civilization was on it. It looked pretty good, so I bought it myself. That's how I got started.

[TimeTraveler]

I first played Civilization II back in very early 1997, and back then, I didn't even know my units could do anything other than move in non-diagonal directions. You can imagine how short and pathetic That game turned out.

After trying again I finally figured out how to build a city, but I ended up building nothing but warriors. It took me a while to find out that multiple units could occupy the same square, and I still didn't figure out how to move diagonally, so half of the tiles were inaccessable.

Yeah, it took me a long time to figure out how to play the game, but I eventually figured it all out.

[GePap]

In school we had a compuetr class, but ti was really just time spent playing games. At first we played were in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Oregon trail, and Qbert. Then, my friend and I were given a new game by our teachers, who trusted us, it was civ. My friend and I were the only ones to play it (besids the teachers) and I got hooked. (This was '93). Then in '95 I heard civ2 was coming out. My family bought a computer that year (our first one) and civ2 was the first game I got. Played who knows how many hours. I then procedeed to buy SMAC and civ3. (and MOO and MOO2 as well).

[ixnay]

History of ixnay and Civilization:

I played Civ 1 in the 5th grade (I think), over at a friend's house. Was very entertained, even though I didn't understand everything that was going on. I remember enjoying building your palace.

Got Civ2 shortly after its release. I can still remember getting grounded for it after I got it - I was supposed to work on some studying Spanish, I believe, before I could play it. But when my mom called home to check up on my bro and I, he told her I just went straight to playing it.

I found Apolyton while looking for scenarios/strategies, and shortly discovered that CtP was coming out. I followed the development of it and joined the forums then (I was a soph. in HS then). I got it, but it never really did anything for me, so I sold it shortly afterwards.

I then got SMAC for my 17th birthday. Over the course of the following school year, I managed to get my closest friends addicted to it as well.

Eagerly followed the development of Civ3 and then got it the day it came out. Most of my posts come from talking about it (I hit 300 shortly before it came out. I'm at 2800 now). Got PTW when it came out, too.