How old are u?

[RayvenWolfe]

quote: Originally posted by Carrion on 12-07-2000 10:11 AM Geez Mike! You have actually made me gelous! Your daughters play CTP! Why can't I find girls like that to go out with? The world needs more of these girls!

There are girls, and women, who play this type of game. I happen to be one. The reason you can't find us to go out with is because we're cloistered in our computer rooms playing these games. Go figure.

Ray

[blackice]

42 hahahahehehe 42 I played the civilization board game hahahaha still have it

[blackice]

Hi louis yes axis and allies is good but the computer game is even more imbalanced than the board game.
Axis and allies iron fist is better still it is imbalanced I have them they are ok. Shogun is different some game flaws, but they do do a good job of recreating the milton bradley game master series.

Blackice

[Frankcub]

37 here. Interesting to see some "late 30's" players!! I started back in the 70's playing the AH Bookshelf games, and I've moved on up to today's computer games.

[Matte979]

Thought I was getting old.
I am 26 going 27, computer engineer and works with Business Systems (Do you have a opening in the gaming industry call me) .
Got a cold so are staying for myself this weekend, and what a good thing that I got CTP-2, all these strategy games have been great when you have to stay home for any reason. And I also like when you can stop your hectic life nowadays for a few hours and just sit down and dvelve into these games. Girl-friends usually objects though. Girl Friends come and go the computer games are there for life.

Started playing on the VIC-20. Games wasn't that fancy and nice looking but they had gameplay. This thread brings back a lot of memories of good old classics.
You get a bit nostalgic.


And so the Computer Game addict goes on..
WARNING: BELOW are my rants of some OLD Classic Strategy games.

Mule (My first strategy multiplayer game)

Lords of Conquest (Also multiplayer)(Fun, simple strategy game)

Empire (The first real civ game.) Spent alot of time building maps on this one. (Multiplayer aswell, great game to bad all my multiplayer games ended with somebody giving up after realising I had to many battleships. Really fun fleet battles. Cruisers, Battleships and Carriers. Good AI aswell.
Really Great Game.

War Game Construction set (I beleive it was called this you could edit and create you own scenarios)

UMS I-II Universal Military simulator (Boy the graphics where ugly)

CIV I (Now we are talking)

Colonization (Loved the cheerful music when you found the fountain of youth still remember it, more of this in games, more great music)

MOO (The Master of Orion) And they are making a MOO3

MOM Master of Magic, really great magic/civ game some have tried to copy it but nobody have really done a good job) Copies. (Lords of Magic, Age Of Wonders)

MOO2 (The best strategy game in space yet, They are still not as good as the down to earth CIV games)

There is so many I spent lots of hours on.
The ones I remember right now is listed below.

Warlords I-III, Colonization, Conquest of the New World
Pax Imperia, RailRoad Tycoon I-II, Heroes of Might And Magic I-III, Imperium Galactica II, Ascendacy, Supremacy.

And not only strategy games, Roleplaying Games for which I spent hours on making maps.

Heart of Africa
Bardstale I-III
Captive (Cool Scifi Roleplaying Game)
Wizardry (one of them)
Ultima Underworld
And all those TSR & SSI games Pool of Radiance, Azura Bonds. SSI and Microsoft where big stars in the computer gaming industry those where the days.
Might And Magic I-VIII
Baldurs Gate I-II
Fallout

And all other games. Dune, C&C I-II, Red Alert, Starcraft, Doom I-II, Quake, Half Life, Delta Force, Rainbow Six....
the list goes on. Don't play that much anymore real life taking to much time..

And to those that say playing computer games is lonely, my experience is totaly diffrent meet alot of friends that way. But one thing I found out is that those that don't play games don't understand us that play games.

To conclude this. My most profound experience with civ was when I went to University and had a great time with friends at a club and I meet this really beautiful girl that I started to talk to and she somehow got into the subject of her playing CIV games. I changed subject because you really don't wannt to start talking civ in a club, there is a place for everything.
To bad maybe I would have been more lucky if I had continued talking about CIV.

But the fact remains there is alot of us out there.

Enough ranting. If I didn't had a cold you would not
be reading all this nostalgic rambling.

/Mathias

"Life is but a game and sometimes hope I could load up an old saved game"


[This message has been edited by Matte979 (edited December 16, 2000).]
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[Franses]

Had to start calculator to calculate my age but I know now. I am 47.

Started playing board games a long time ago. Very time consuming but fun. Except for the time it took to set up the game, it was difficult to find opponents. Once started a game with my sister but after an hour explaining the rules and setting up, she asked whether I had other games in my closet. Wraagh. Fortunately two of my three sons share my interest in Strategic games and that is when life got better.

When I got my hands on ????was it History line (great graphics for its time)???, I immediately stopped the board games and started computer games. Am always on the lookout for good strategic games (SMAC is one in my opinion although I agree that graphics are bad).

No more setup problems with computer games and since the Internet I can not only play with my kids but with people all over the world. This way, life gets better every decade and I am planning to stick around for a while to play and see strategic games evolve. It will definitely get much better. I and many others have plenty ideas of how it could be improved. So, manufacturors, deliver us real improvement and we will certainly buy your stuff for a long time to come.

Franses

[Frankcub]

Franses--now I don't feel so old!! Seriously, it's great to see middle-aged (doesn't _that_ antiquate us!) gamers who are very much into their hobby. Well, back to my game of CTPII....

[Dyzee400]

I'm 14 years old, and first got into the Civilization series when I downloaded the Civ 2 demo quite a number of years ago. I played the demo non-stop, each time trying to get farther ahead before the demo quit at 1000 A.D. Finally I got the game for Christmas that year and played it for hours and hours. Since then, I've picked up Alpha Centauri, which I think is a great game, as well as Call to Power. I just got CTP2 about a week ago and I'm lovin' it. Not a whole lot different that the first game, but I definately like what they've done with it. I really can't wait until Civ3. I'll be buying that the day it comes out.

[Diemar]

I'm 25, and have been playing civ since the very first. Thats 6 or 7 years now.

[Mannamagnus]

37; but I don't look a day over fourty

[Doomer]

I'm 26 year old and a software engineer. I've been playing civ games since 1994.

[Tassadar]

I'm 37 but feel like 29 and look like 32 with a brain maturity level of 39.

Regards Tassadar

[Chris B]

Im just 13, but I have a lot of fun with the game regardless. Lots of kids need faster paced action, but Ctp and CtpII have enuff for me.

[joseph1944]

I guess my sign-in said it all. I'm 56 and will be 57 in march. There was no PCs computers when I was a young one. Someone gave us pong way back in the 70s. We bought an Atari 2600 & 5200 in late 70s. Bought a Commodor 64 in 1984, a 386 in 90, 486 in 92, P-I 166 in 96, and a PII 350 in 98. It is now a PIII 600. I just 3 month ago threw away my Commodor computer and games. Started to play Sids games in 84. Micro Prose was a great game company back then until Hasbro bought it and cancelled most of their war game and close several design studios. Maybe now that MP has been sold to another studios it can make a big comeback. I did not know about Civ I right away. Was playing X-Com I and II, when to Sofeware Etc. and ask if there was any building games like RRTyc, and was showed Civ I. I than bought Window Civ I, Civnet, Bought Civ II day one, the CivII add on day one, Civ II MPG, CTP day one, CTP II day one, and will buy CivIII day one.
You younger people can grow up with computer and take advantage of them. We did not get a B/W TV until Sept 1958. I was a freshman in High School. My Kids grew up with color TV in the house. My GrandBoy are growing up with Color TV and Computer in the house. What will your Grandkids grow up with?

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[tomdy2k]

thanks joseph.

i'm glad i'm not the only old gamer.

tom