How old were you when you discovered CIV?

[Chemical Ollie]

On my copy of CIV3, there is a label saying "3+"! I can hardly imagine someone under 10 being able to play and understand a game of Civilization. I think most of the players are between 18 and 40. How old were you when you started to play any of the games in the Civilization series?

[Spiffor]

I was between 10 and 12 that I doscovered Civ1 on my amiga. I recall very well thant I was spanked by the Russians despite playing at chieftain level, and that I thought Gunpowder was the most worth tech when stealing a modern country

[Solver]

I was 1. Discovering Civ is when my life began :.

[Krayzeenbk]

Somewhere around 2000 I played a copy of civ1 (not sure if it was legal or not), and I have been playing ever since I can't believe I didn't get to it earlier

[Chemical Ollie]

I was 26. I was home from work, having a cold. After 3 days of playing Pirates! and Strategic Conquest on my Mac Powerbook 100, I was fed up and went to the computer store and got myself a copy of Civilization. The Powerbook was my mate anywhere I went: In bed, in the TV sofa, at the dinner table when my girlfriend was not home or at hotels and airport lounges on business trips. I even took it to the lavatory when taking a dump.

[SpydraXxX]

I was 30 or 31... I liked first shooter games, sims from when nintendo came out, had been my drug of choice, before that on my Commadore 128, I loved the Ultima series. That's actually when I got my handle. I've had Spydrax (SpydraXxX(SpydraXXX)) for about 18 years.
He was my enforcer in AD&D back when...

Talk about spending time!!! Ugh!!! And since it WAS so long ago, I can safely say, I had some 100-120 disks full of games, only buying 5 or less... Simplier times my friends, simplier times...........

But this civ3 actually was brought to my attention by accident, played it once and I was wanting to return it, but it was to late at the time!!! It sat in front of me, I don't know how long!!! Then I tried it again, now I almost solely play this game!

[Flight]

Hmmm when did civ3 come out? man must be 2001? ages ago. Yeah, then i must have discovered civ2 in late 2000 and rapidly moved to CTP2 which i thought was much better
That would have made me 16/17

[Jon Shafer]

I was 15 or 16.

[asleepathewheel]

I was 13 or 14, it was right after Civ for dos came out.

i uh, played a, uh, pirated copy

when I got a computer with Win 3.1 I bought WinCiv.

[Mad Bomber]

Found CIV 2 Gold edition around 1997 and have been happily CIVing since. After about 200 games of gold edition I moved on to the playstation edition (it had better graphics and smoother interface and commands, but no editor ) Then I heard that CIV 3 would be released and picked up my copy as soon as it hit the stores.

[Azeem]

Played it at 11 when my brother borrowed it from a friend. Simply loved it, but I couldn't figure it out.

Played it only once though. My empire was absolutely pathetic.

[BigDork]

Hi everybody...

I think I was about 17ish when I first played civ2. Wow, that was a whole 4 years ago! It was a good game but I didn't play it like I do Civ3. That's a friggin' addiction, which I'm sure most of you are aware of.

BigD

[Cruddy]

I was early twenties, back in the 90s, reviewing computer games. A colleague came in, white as a sheet and quiet as a mouse. He said "This game is the max. Forget everything you've ever played before. "

So I knew it was good - but not as good as Civ2 and Civ3

Nuff waffle.

[pedrojedi]

I was 14-15, it was something like 1994-5... A pirate civ-1, which occupied just some few floppies,

[Willem]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I was between 10 and 12 that I doscovered Civ1 on my amiga.

I have my Amiga 2000 set up on the desk next to me, though I'm finally planning on letting it go soon. I spent many a happy hour playing Civ I on it. I actually started playing the game on a Commodore 64. We certainly have come a long way since then! We now have wristwatches with more computing power than that thing had.