Poll: Your FIRST civ (like) game ?

[Beatie]

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.

yeah, I noticed that today. I downloaded this... I heard about mobile phones running windows 98, but seems so slooooooooooooooooow.. not workable.. so win 3.1 proberly just as slow...

[Jon Miller]

Played Civ1 right when it came out. I think we saw Dune, but got Civ instead. This was my uncle.

Was great.

I didn't actually own Civ1 until much later (after Civ2 even), but I played it a lot.

JM

[Jon Miller]

Win3.1 has a lot less overhead than Win98.

JM

[Robert]

I played Civ1 back in 1993 on my 286 with VGA screen. (that VGA screen was important back then! finally no messing around with cga / ega apps to get my hercules card play ega games!)

First time I saw civ1 it was a friend who played it on his computer.
I was obsessed by why he did not send his ships to uncover all the 'dark sea tiles'.
(he was moving caravans around).

I really don't remember any civ1 strategies.
Back then I loved it to play the world map, and then place WAshington exactly on the center of that river 'fork', irrigating all tiles, to get it to a size 42.

I also remember first time I faced a tank with my spearman! I was shocked! WOW, he is that advanced (my spearman didn't beat him )

When my army first landed on the 'chinese continent island', like 80 tanks surrounded it. I never had a chance. Untill I learned to nuke the hell out of it, and then land the army. I won. After that the world became one big swamp. I made a lot of settlers, removing the swamps, what was left was a worldwide grassland

It was also fun to use your engineers in civ2 to remove entire mountain chains!

[LDiCesare]

Civ 1 for me. First seen on a friend's laptop. Later, played on the school computers. One of them was a black and white Mac. Civ 1 in black and white was quite a sight.
I loved in Civ 1 how new civs would spawn when you eliminated a civ too early. I remember a game where all the civs were dead but me and the Americans, who had spawned late on a small island. They had one phalanx and nothing else while I was happily building my spaceship

[Hauldren Collider]

I first played Civ II but I never played much civ until Civ IV.

[rah]

My very first game, CIV I terra map. Started as romans. On something like turn 3, a greek chariot shows up. Game over. Fortunately I've done better since.

[shmily_dana]

I said CIV2 in the poll. But I was also an "Empire" player.

[N35t0r]

I still remember a Civ1 game in which I started in North America, with the Mongols in South America, and all other civs in the old world.

I chariot rushed the mongols (my favourite early strat... chariots were really powerful at 4 attack), and then teched to get cannons and transports, and just pumped out mainly cannons and landed shiploads in the old world, which was mostly dominated by Stalin, who almost doubled me in cities. I eventually won.

[Beatie]

I still remember a Civ1 game in which I started in North America, with the Mongols in South America, and all other civs in the old world.

I chariot rushed the mongols (my favourite early strat... chariots were really powerful at 4 attack), and then teched to get cannons and transports, and just pumped out mainly cannons and landed shiploads in the old world, which was mostly dominated by Stalin, who almost doubled me in cities. I eventually won.

I remember one of my first civ1 games... i played the americans. and get a stack of TANKS against me from de zulu's.. i was shocked. and this kind of experience made my play better and better. you just think.. what can i do to be stronger and make those techs go faster. But i never won on the highest level.... perhaps if I cheat (like make your own map en make is superb for you)but that is my kind of fun.

[N35t0r]

Incidentally, the first game with bananas on it was Civ 2, although they were the icon for the 'Fruit' resource on jungle tiles.

[Frozzy]

Civ 2 was my first, had some pretty epic games on that and got fully hooked.

I thoroughly enjoyed CtP too which I thought had some very good ideas but lacked the polish of the mainstream games.

I was a bit disappointed with Civ III and then became quite disillusioned with the genre so didn't play much after that.

[1Razor]

When I moved from my Amiga across to a Pentium 166 I discovered Civ 2. Never looked back really. Graphics were quite good on the Amiga but slowly being left behind by the PC so I jumped ship.

Can I just say Zones Of Control.....

one of the big things I missed when I moved up to Civ 3 still do occasionally!

[Beatie]

Can I just say Zones Of Control.....

one of the big things I missed when I moved up to Civ 3 still do occasionally!

I think you mean that you can't pass tiles what where emty but under control by other units so that you first need to attack the units that controling the emty zones around them, makes a huge strategic difference. (More fun indeed)

[1Razor]

Yes that's right. So many opportunities to block passage to opponents without them declaring war on you to get by.....