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[Frozzy]

Hey all! How did you all end up playing Civilization games? Did you find it in a bargain bin, or get shown it by a friend?

[Frozzy]

I got hooked on the civilization games by a friend of mine who had Civ II. He showed me the basics of the game, and I got hooked from there! I also remember my trireme sinking after going three squares from the coast When I moved to New Zealand, I had to sell Civ II, and I heard of CtP 2. So I picked up CtP by accident , and here I am today, telling this story to other CtP players

[ricketyclik]

When I was in Uni (in 1992) my house mate used to spend almost all of his waking moments on his PC playing Civ(I). He was always talking about it while he was playing... "Those Greeks, they're so f***ing treacherous" and stuff like that emanated from behind his monitor for a couple of years without letup, except when he came out for a bong or a peanut butter sandwhich (the back of the monitor faced the loungeroom). I thought he was a sad loser...

Then, when I was in a shop buying my first CD-ROM player (1997), I thought I'd buy a CD to put in it, and I saw CivII on a shelf, and well... I saw the light. Either that or I'm a sad loser too

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by ricketyclik
When I was in Uni (in 1992) my house mate used to spend almost all of his waking moments on his PC playing Civ(I). He was always talking about it while he was playing... "Those Greeks, they're so f***ing treacherous" and stuff like that emanated from behind his monitor for a couple of years without letup, except when he came out for a bong or a peanut butter sandwhich (the back of the monitor faced the loungeroom). I thought he was a sad loser...

Then, when I was in a shop buying my first CD-ROM player (1997), I thought I'd buy a CD to put in it, and I saw CivII on a shelf, and well... I saw the light. Either that or I'm a sad loser too

I suppose the saying here is don't judge a book by its cover

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by ricketyclik
When I was in Uni (in 1992) my house mate used to spend almost all of his waking moments on his PC playing Civ(I). He was always talking about it while he was playing... "Those Greeks, they're so f***ing treacherous" and stuff like that emanated from behind his monitor for a couple of years without letup, except when he came out for a bong or a peanut butter sandwhich (the back of the monitor faced the loungeroom). I thought he was a sad loser...

Then, when I was in a shop buying my first CD-ROM player (1997), I thought I'd buy a CD to put in it, and I saw CivII on a shelf, and well... I saw the light. Either that or I'm a sad loser too

Just because we play Civ game weeks and months and years on end.......DOES NOT MAKE US LOSERS!! ..why to even suggest such a thing..even unto thinking such hogwash..why we are more like this fine fellow below!!

Simply serching out the meaning of our life!!
(or so my wifey-poo sez I am!!)

[blackice]

I had the board game so when civ came out I had to have it.

[FlameFlash]

I thought the board game is just about to come out...

I got hooked by the demo of Civ II on some other demo disk... from there it was a demo of SMAC, and then my cousin got CtP and I had to get that after playing it with him.

[Frozzy]

Cool. I also thought the board game was about to come out

[Keygen]

As far as I know the board game came out before civ make it into the computers Micropose had to to take permision due to legal stuff from the creator of the board game (Avallon Hill) and trenfer it into the PC world.

I still own a 1982 copy of the Avallon Hill's Civilization board game bought it years after and played it only once due that I could not convince any of my friends to play

[Solver]

Keygen, I understand what you mean, it's hard to convince people to play civ... if they don't know what strategy games actually mean.

[blackice]

Ya I had one friend willing to learn it. It was a good game but as Keygen said as soon a the computer version came out. I sealed the board game and never looked back

[Frozzy]

Yeah... most people say Civ is the most boring game ever and they just play AoE. But then I suppose it is in the Ancient-Renaissance age. The real hardcore stuff starts in the modern age, with nukes, pollution, and tanks

[Solver]

No problem with AoE either . IMO, though, it's easy with civ - you either strongly dislike it or love it. You can't think "yeah, OK, a nice game" - if you like it, you get addicted, like we here are. The best proof is the long time of playing it - some of the people on the boards are playing it even for 10 years, and still not bored - AoE 2 kept me playing it for a year, after that I was taking huge breaks with it.

[MILAMBER]

? what is AoE? also i found my self addicted to CTP after playing it once and then i got online and that sealed my fate. i am a Civ addict and if i didnt have to sleep or work i would play 24/7/365 lol just some what kidding.

[Keygen]

Originally posted by MILAMBER

? what is AoE?

You really don't know?

OK, no big deal

The initials for Age of Empires.