Poll: Your FIRST civ (like) game ?

[Grandpa Troll]

Got hooked on Civilization while watching my son play on our 60 inch bigscreen, he was playing CIV II on Playstation, one day he went surfing at 0530 am, I asked him if I could play as my wife was away for a week at her Mom's, I started a gme, played 2 hours, saw mistakes I made and then played almost 18 hours straight!

Was so hooked, then bought my first PC Civilization game from Babbages, Call To Power, and have played everyone since, am so dissapointed in CIV III but other than that abomination, love the series, really looking forward to CIV V

Grandpa Troll

[Shogun Gunner]

Civ1 in 1991 - my company issued me a laptop so I could check router configs anywhere in the country 24x7. Little did they know that I was playing Civ1 for HOURS every night. I would log onto to routers I knew my boss would check in the morning.

He gave me high praise when he saw the logfile of me logging onto the routers at odd times throughout the night. He thought I was dedicated. I was just trying to firmly establish the need for me to keep the work laptop so I could play Civ.

[Fidel]

The results of the poll confirm what I have suspected: Apolyton users are um...senior citizens, myself included.
I still remember the first Civ I game I have played on black&white 386 laptop. We stayed up until 5 a.m. (that is when we ran out of beer).
I still remember the day I bought Civ II and the trouble I had to go through to get Civ III.
Except for EU and EU II, Civ is pretty much the only game I have played in the last decade. Total War bored me quickly.

[Provost Harrison]

Civ1, back when I was in the sixth form (so that would be 1993). Those were the days...

[Boris Godunov]

Civ I, 1993 for me as well. My brother brought it home on his college laptop and let me play it one evening. I remember starting at about 7 PM as the Romans, and when I looked at the clock again, it was 5 AM.

[Dinner]

The results of the poll confirm what I have suspected: Apolyton users are um...senior citizens, myself included.
I still remember the first Civ I game I have played on black&white 386 laptop. We stayed up until 5 a.m. (that is when we ran out of beer).
I still remember the day I bought Civ II and the trouble I had to go through to get Civ III.
Except for EU and EU II, Civ is pretty much the only game I have played in the last decade. Total War bored me quickly.

Me too. I remember trying to get it to work on my dad's 286 non-windows Dos based machine without a mouse. Typing all the keys on the key board so and writing them down when they did something so I could learn how to play the game using just hot keys. When Civ2 came out my dad had upgraded to a windows based 486 and I remember spending hours and hours playing the game and marveling at how cool the animated pictures were when an AI leader sent you a message.

I also was bored to tears by the total war series and I'm not sure why.