Poll: Your FIRST civ (like) game ?

[DaveV]

My Civ1 computer was a 286 with 512K RAM, 20MB hard disk, and VGA graphics. Pretty much top of the line when I bought it .

[Theben]

None of the above... the 1st game I played was a civ-like ASCII game where you started with a few armies ('A') and had to move them to take neutral or enemy cities ('X' or 'x') once taken it would inform you the type of unit it could create, which took so many turns: F= fighter (small case where enemy units), C= carrier, B= battleship, etc. Don't recall the name, and no tech research or settling was required.

[Adagio]

My first Civ game:



This was back on the Amiga

With the exception of CivRev and of course Civ V, I have played all mentioned Civ games

No... he just placed a settler on a transport in Civ I and ordered it to (R)ailroad while in the ocean. Nothing like a railroad around the world!

[TimeTraveler]

I was ten years old when I received a copy of a game that had just recently come out: Civilization II. Back at the start, I didn't know how to do anything other than move units non-diagonally. It was a while before I learned how to do stuff like build cities, change production, let my units rest, set them to fortify, etc. But at least I eventually figured out the nuances of that game. It prepared me quite well for when I was introduced to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri three years later.

[fani]

Civ3 and its expansions a few days later.I remember losing a nights sleep over the "roman world" scenario. It seemed to me like a great game back then. Anyway, loved civ4 and i can barely wait for civ5!!

[Beatie]

None of the above... the 1st game I played was a civ-like ASCII game where you started with a few armies ('A') and had to move them to take neutral or enemy cities ('X' or 'x') once taken it would inform you the type of unit it could create, which took so many turns: F= fighter (small case where enemy units), C= carrier, B= battleship, etc. Don't recall the name, and no tech research or settling was required.

I never heard of that game. I know i forgot free civ, but that is in fact CIV2, so voters that missed freeciv please vote for civ2.

Civ3 and its expansions a few days later.I remember losing a nights sleep over the "roman world" scenario. It seemed to me like a great game back then. Anyway, loved civ4 and i can barely wait for civ5!

Finaly someone that started with civ3.. compliments. Civ3 was not a easy game. Introduction of resources like rubber and oil.

But it seems that most of us are old players, and die hard civ'ers. Most of us played them all. I even play (and own for xbox 360) Civ Rev. But that is more Civ Crap. it is more for beginners, but I doubt that the beginners from civ rev, are still playing civ games because of the bad game it was.

[Beatie]

My first Civ game:



This was back on the Amiga

With the exception of CivRev and of course Civ V, I have played all mentioned Civ games

so retro.... nice ehhh such a smart programed game it was. I though I fits on one floppy these days and not even HD, so 720kb or less I believe. and as we all can see... even then there was civilclopidia.

[iamakka]

Only had a 320k FDD on my freind's amiga, so it was a lot of swapping disks while it loaded

[Dinner]

I started playing Civ 1 by downloading it off of a local BBS on my old dial up modem. I actually bought Civ2 when it came out.

[DaveV]

None of the above... the 1st game I played was a civ-like ASCII game where you started with a few armies ('A') and had to move them to take neutral or enemy cities ('X' or 'x') once taken it would inform you the type of unit it could create, which took so many turns: F= fighter (small case where enemy units), C= carrier, B= battleship, etc. Don't recall the name, and no tech research or settling was required.

Empire. I wasted a lot of time on that one.

[Ming]

I played Civ I on SNES. Got a computer shortly after that for Civ II

[Civ4jglide]

Population phase.

Avalon Hill Civilization The true original. I have two Okra, Any takers.

[Beatie]

I first played Civ I on a freind's Amiga 500

When I got my own PC - a 386 SX25, 4mb memory, and a 60mb hard drive - Civilization was amongst the first games I played.

I still have Civ I on my mobile phone (using DOSbox)

I tried civ1 on my mobile phone (Samsung Omnia pro) using the dosbox, it's starts loading but after a while it goes back to dos with error.

My question, CIV2 was also for msdos i think.. so should be possible to run as well on the dosbox (civ1 and civ2 are now abbandonware (So 4 free) My mobile phone had a 16gig card so should be enough

[N35t0r]

No. You need at least Win 3.11 (3.1 will not do) to play Civ2

I started with Civ1 on a friend's 386, then when my parents bought our first computer (a 486 with 4 MB of RAM) I got it off my friend (his father had bought it on a trip to the USA, and it was impossible to get almost any computer game at the time over here), and by the end of the week I could already answer all of the copy protection riddles in the game.

[Theben]

Empire. I wasted a lot of time on that one.

That's the one.

Now that I think of it though, there was an earlier game on the Trash-80(?) which was more like a build-an-empire-in-medieval-times game. You could build armies and attack each other but most of the time you spent balancing your economy and buying sheep, cows, grain, and cats as your population grew (and declined during famines).

The part I remember most was balancing the cat population. Not enough and the rats ate your grain (too many rats and your people got plagued), too many cats and they ate your fish. But we all were afraid of "Super-Cat": if you had just barely over the # to trigger the fish-eating event, the cats would eat 100% of your fish... which normally lead to famine.