How old are u?

[Carrion]

I'm 21 and been playing since Civ on my good ole 486 which was forever ago. At least to me. But I'm a big strategy person been playing risk since I was 7.

Civ was awesome, it ruined my academic grades that year. Civ 2 was even even better and I could LAN with my friends!!! SMAC I bought but never played because I lent it to my buddy while I played CCTP. After comparing them I decided CCTP was much better after my buddy came over and we did some more LANing. Now we LAN for CTP2! Been addicted to vid games ever since my first Commador 64!

[Ironwolf]

Here is another 40 year old. Been playing since Civ 1 and still love it.

[Paulypav]

quote: Originally posted by aebbeka on 12-03-2000 08:54 PM Do you use CTP2 as a teaching tool? Who needs textbooks!? Hehe.

Haven't tried it yet, maybe if there are some good historical based scenarios created.

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[hexagonian]

39

Played Risk as a kid (and learned the fine art of diplomacy then) - D&D in college - discovered 'Axis and Allies' a few years later, and then created a whole series of increasingly-complex hex-board empire building and war scenario games with some friends (we always felt we could do it better than Avalon Hill), until I got my computer in Dec '98 and bought CTP.

Yeah, I'm a gamer for life!

Wish I had gotten a PC sooner though...Getting my friends together for an afternoon of some backstabbing over a board game is very hard now.

[Atahualpa]

Guess it or not: 20. But I have given up careing about my age. 20 or 21 where is the difference? (ok in the US there would be, but here you can get drunk at the age of 16)

Ata

[meriadoc]

Let's see, I'm 23... or is it 24? Well, 2000-1976 means I'll be 24 in a few days so I must be 23. I've been addicted to Civ ever since a friend of mine and I started playing it back in the early 90's on the school's Mac. Then I got Civ for DOS then Civ for Win, eventually upgrading to Civ2. Then I got CCTP and now CTP2. I figure that I'll stop playing when I die.

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[ak]

44.
Chess since about, what, 10 or so?
Strat-O-Matic Pro Football board game at about 13 - one of the most fun strategy games of all. Of course it helps if you're a sports and statistics fan. And it only took 2 hrs to play!
Avalon Hill at about 14 ('71). Lost patience with massive unit board games after dog wagged tail one last time.
Pong in the later 70's. Just right for my mentality at the time.
Dabbled w computer games in the 80's. Stopped for several years.
Picked up Railroad Tycoon and Civ2 about 3 yrs ago. Impressed with ability to play complex game without aformentioned dog problem.
Now CTP2.
Onward ho!

[Alpha Wolf]

I always wondered if all my ole AH gaming buddies would still be gaming. I'm 36 and started with risk, then AH (loved D-day). Moved up to Axis and Allies and Mule (for those that remember the old commodore 64s). Then hit Castles and got suck in by civ type games. Wish I had more locals to play face to face cuz the AI just aint much competetion.

[Yatermie]

I'm 18. Been playing civ since civ 1 way back when.
I consider myself an old-school gamer who prefers gameplay over the graphics because when i started, there were no fancy graphics.

[Dominous Nemo]

I noticed that alot of ppl here play chess. I am also a chess feen ever since 6 yrs old (even though I didn't know how to play I still found making war with the army fun.)

CIV/CTP games are awsome but it will never beat a good old game of chess.

PS: I thought smac su$ked also!
PSS: If anyone is up for a game of chess email me.
[This message has been edited by Dominous Nemo (edited December 05, 2000).]

[quinns]

44. I guess that makes Ak and me tied for the OLD MAN AWARD... so far anyway ... Wrong -- John-SG holds the lead at 47 years. Go John!

Civ, great games!

Chess? I play. Yes, chess is still a great game! And sure, I'll play by e-mail. You can play white! My email is steveq@gte.net.
[This message has been edited by quinns (edited December 06, 2000).]

[hroman21]

I'm 29 and my very first computer game I played was called Midway from Avalon Hill on a Pet Commodore computer which used a cassette player to load. That was back in...1982. Ever since I have played all sorts of strategy games like Empire, RFTS, Empire Deluxe, Starfleet 2, MOO, MOM, Fantasy Empires, X-Com 1 & 2, Spaceward Ho! v4.0, MOO2, Civ 1, Civ 2, SW Rebellion, SMAC, BoTF, HOMM 3, AOE2, CCTP, & more recently CTP2. This does not include the over 50+ games I have accumulated over time from flight sims, RTS, RP, FP action and of course, strategy.

I can honestly say that I am a hopelesly addicted computer game player who cannot wait to get his hands on the next game. Right now I am contemplating to acquire SFC2, SE IV, Stars!2, WC3, & Emperor Dune.

Regards,
hroman21

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[Crimson Phalanx]

I am 25, Chemical Enginner, first masters in Biotechnology, second in Business Administration... If there was another master for getting a certificate in Call to Power I would be glad to attend the course!

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[Mike the Nuke]

I'm 45 and am retire form the U.S. NAVY. My wife is slightly youger (still in her 30's). My daughters, who also play the game with us (Hot SEat Mode only) are in their teens (High School, 16 and 18 espectively). My son who also plays in teh Hot Seat games is 13. His friend who also plays in our Hot Seat games is about 15 (Freshman in High School I think). In CTP-1 and CIV2-TOT, we play Hot Seat games with a couple AI's added in (usually 5-7 players total, sometimes 8). If we are not all available, we play Hot Seat games of 4-5 including the AI's. The bottom line is that Hot Seat is very important to us and that age of the players is not really that important (though interesting). We also (my son and I) play a lot of racing games (NASCAR, NHRA, etc) We are avid race fans and have the 10-Time NHRA Winston Funny Car Champion John Force as a friend.

So there you have it. Drag Racing fans can and will play Civ games too!

I also owned and played ATARI 2600 games, ATARI 800 Computer games, and PC games (8088 cpu types). Our family enjoys a good game of quality and entertainment value. AI's are of little interest to us. In fact, those are the first civilizations we attack and beat the crap out of in our Hot Seat games! Then we get serious amongst ourselves.

If a game gets good reviews in areas that interest me, looks good in its description and is not one player (or internet, LAN play) only (this applies to war and Civ type games only), we buy it and try it.

We own a Play Station and a Super Nintendo. We don't do much with the SNES any more, but still mess around with the Play Station.

We do play games like the SIMS (initial and Livin' Large), Sim City 3000, Railroad Tycoon(Deluxe/Gold), Risk I and II, PGA Golf games, Myst & Raven(mostly my wife and daughters), Commandos to name a few. Many of these are single player, but we play Civ games in Hot Seat Only. I have played some single player, but usually become bored and quit as does my wife, ddaughters and son.

I also play 'Rock Guitar' and own a 1976 Gibson Les Paul Custom. I grew up on Creedance Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix, the Stones, Santana, Zepplin, The Beattles and Neil Young. I also listen to Montrose, and lots of Van Halen. I enjoy playing many of the Van Halen tunes, Hendrix, Montrose, Black Sabbath, DIO, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Lynard Skynerd, Neil Young, Creedance, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton, Spin Doctors, The Smitherines, Joe Satriani, Tom Petty, etc, etc (I think you get the idea).

In other words...computers and games (of nearly all types) are not "just for nerds" anymore (Ha Ha) or "kids" either.

In closing, I must say that this was a very interesting subject post. Nice idea.

The two Web Sites I visit most are:

NHRA.com and this one.

I helped my son with his site (a racing site)

http:\\BigJeffWeb.homestead.com\welcome.html for those interested in drag racing photos.

[Mr.Green]

I'm 27. COBOL programmer. Civ I was the first or was it Railroad Tycoon?