How did you first find Civ1 and how did you learn to play it?

[laurentius]

Bought it in 1994 and played it on my dad's 486 with cd-rom drive! The Game was and still is great. The most annoying thing was when the game asked to look things up from the manual to verify you had original game.

[wampre]

1993. havent been the same since

[wampre]

some of the best fun I had with both civ 1 and 2 was putting in my own dialoge. Made dealing with the other civs a blast. Couldnt change the audio dialoge in civ2 but I could change the text that accompanied it.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by wampre
some of the best fun I had with both civ 1 and 2 was putting in my own dialoge. Made dealing with the other civs a blast. Couldnt change the audio dialoge in civ2 but I could change the text that accompanied it.

I forgot about that, it was fun. Of course the first thing to get changed was that opening bit which I spent a lot of time looking at while my 286 labored to create a new game. I still have that machine around, I should take a look at it sometime.

[:) Smiley]

First time I played I thought I had set it to "Play on Earth Map" when I had in fact not. The stranger thing was that the map did bear some resemblence to the world map, so up until I saw the replay I was still trying to find Africa.

[Father Beast]

I think it was early 1998, and I had heard that Civ2 was one of the world's greatest games. I had just got a CD-rom for my thrift store special 386-16, and bought the 2-pack of Civilization and Colonization for 10 bucks, on reputation of the sequel.

I read the entire manual twice before I installed the game, and followed the instructions. Chieftan, 3 players. I found myself on one of two continents really close together, all by myself. I colonzed them both, even getting a couple of cities down in the tundra that would never grow much. my hordes of settlers worked to build zillions of roads and clean up all the pollution my bigger cities inevitably put out.

I eventually built a battleship and sent it out exploring, discovered the persians and french duking it out on another continent on the other side of the world. after some perfunctory bombarding of their ports, I went home and concentrated on building my starship. launched it while the other two were still squabbling.

My first game went so well, my second game was kind of a disappointment when I lost some cities to barbarians, and they started cranking out annoying armies to attack me. by the time I got them wiped out, the zulus were there to give me hell. shaka is one mean SOB....

[Cort Haus]

Atari ST, roundabout 92-93. The UK magazine 'ST Format' had agitated for an ST version, then put the demo on the coverdisk. (single floppy).

They offered a deal where the full game came with a years subscription. I played the demo and it blew my mind. Done!

The full game was on 4 floppies and I played it relentlessly to the sound track of Sugar's album 'Copper Blue', released about the same time. The best track on the album was 'Hoover Dam', which was, and still is, the game-winning wonder in Civ.

Strongest memory : "Your Civilization makes us laugh. We require the secret of Mapmaking."

[Ecthy]

Seen it first at my cousin's place.

later seen it at a friend's place.

learned to play it when we finally had it at home.

nuff said.

[Finvola]

In 94 or 95 I started dating this guy and his younger brother used to play Civ I..he showed me the basics of the game and I became hooked. The guy I was dating turned out to be a jerk but I kept going out with him for another few months so I could go over his house, ignore him, and play Civ all day. At the end of 96 I bought my own PC and by that time Civ II had just come out.

[LotC]

I think I'm one of the only ones here that first played it on the Sega Genesis. It was probably around 94 or 95.

Addiction didn't take long to set in. After getting the basics down, I would play all day, every day (familiar story to most here I'm sure). I played the game for months straight, until I secured the #1 spot on the HoF, with 168%.-- All settings hard, start as India on Earth map, beeline for Mathematics for catapults, meet and greet the neighbours to find out who and consequently where everyone is, and go bash. I think that game I won in something like 2900 BC.

I sold the game after that (still regret it) but many hours of Civ2, AC, MoM, and Civ3 ensued in the following years.

[tonic]

It was probably some 8 years ago and I think I just got the game by default ie a relative who only played arcade games was given Civ 1 as a birthday present and he passed it on to me.

I just remembered trying it out the first time without reading the manual and got the dreaded RIP playback

[Asmodean]

I was in the army back then (1991). I was back home, visiting my folks for the week-end, when my dad who is a schoolteacher told me that one of his colleagues (my former math teacher) had started playing this game, and that he was losing sleep because of it.

The week after that, we were in Germany (my parents live only about 150 kilometers from the Danish-German border). I saw this game in a shop, and my father told me this was the game his colleague was playing. I bought it.

My life has never been the same since then.

Asmodean

[rah]

CIV I for NES.

First game. started as the Greeks. A couple of turns in a roman chariot shows up and demands something. I said no, game over.
Second game. Started as Romans

[Brundlefly]

It was the first turnbased strategy game I had played. Up till then I had only played D&D fantasy type games (SSI Gold Box), which were excellent ,btw..

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I was introduced to Civ in our Engineering computer lab at college. It was THE reason I bought my first computer.