There is a nice thread in which you can vote which age you are.
But the problem is that your age is changing and the results of the poll will be getting wrong with the time going on.
So I'd like to see this: From which decade do the most Civplayers come from?
Please vote for the decade of your birth.

This time even with the poll :blush:

As of September 12, 2010 the poll had 3264 votes when it was moved to the Civ 5 forums.
4199 when it was moved to the Civ5 G&K forums, May 27th 2012.

Even though there is already a very popular thread of the same type as this, I think this would be better to use :) I have moved up an age bracket in the old one, as i'm sure many other have too.

Cmon the 80's :D (i'm 16 btw)

Edit: You should note that I am now 18, and would slap my younger self if I had the chance.

1987 ftw

edit: 19, and again but harder

-this is a great thread! i'm shocked that no one 14 or younger is a Civ fan though. that makes me a sad panda. :(

edit: never mind. i posted too early. :p

lies i am 11 and i love civ and most games that are of older origins :D

yeah I'm only twelve. hey its not just a game for the old people.

The Fifties (1050-1959)
:eek: :hmm:

The Fifties, here, too.

(And I fixed the poll dates. ;) )

The Eighties (1980-89) [dance]

i wouldn't imagine a lot new generation guys would post here '2000 on wards'. :lol:

The Fifties, here, too.

(And I fixed the poll dates. ;) )
I'm not from the fifties; I was just pointing out the mistake. :D

I would think that most people here were probably born in the 80's. I, however war born in the 90's.

1988. Go 80's... Um, yeah.

'85 here. :)

83! (The year)

The 90s here....

1990..though I listen to 70s -80s music..

Classic Rock...:D
Oh and 14 by the way...

1989 here.

'77 here. :)

The Nineties(13 years old)

The Fifties, here, too.

(And I fixed the poll dates. ;) )

You're ooooooooold.

=D

Yay for '87.

1986 here
I think this might be better in OT.

The 60's, which is why of course I have issues with hippies and that whole free love/counterculture thing. :)

-Elgalad

70s here...

'70s. 1972 to be precise

Edit: umm...shouldn't it be "forties"?

Edit: Looks like "forties" to me.... :mischief: --Padma

Edit2: Oh yes...maybe I should try bifocals :lol:

Can't believe there this many older people here. I didn't know people over 30 played gameslike civ3!

1979 baby!
I've just had my quarter century... shudder!

'88. I'm a dragon. :D (Chinese Zodiac...)

Wow, yet another poll :p 70-79 a great decade...

Hail to the children of the Eighties!

1986

60's!

End of Decembar 1965 :cool: :king:

Go 1989, Year of the Snake!
:beer: [dance] [party] [dance] :beer:

year 89, missed 90's by a year :P

edit

Go 1989, Year of the Snake!
:beer: [dance] [party] [dance] :beer:

actually if u are born before the chinese new year (some time in february), u are still considered as a dragon.

The Eighties.

1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987).

Foiled by the 10 charcator limit...

Can't believe there this many older people here. I didn't know people over 30 played gameslike civ3!

Well, when you get older it is precisely this kind of games that you have patience (and time) for. I play little else though, just civ that I've played since the first one came out.

'73 here, BTW

actually if u are born before the chinese new year (some time in february), u are still considered as a dragon.

Well, It was January, but the Snake more accuratley describes me than the dragon. I guess Buddah was drunk or something. :beer:

The Zodiac is Buddhist?

BTW, the Chinese new year can be in March sometimes too. :)

How come you dont have the 10's and 20's?

This should have been a public poll; That way we can find out who voted the 2000 or later option. :p

Late 80s. :)

The Zodiac is Buddhist?

BTW, the Chinese new year can be in March sometimes too. :)

The Chineese Zodiac is Buddist. Something to do with Buddah gifting people born in certain years the personality of certain animals. Crazy stuff! :crazyeye:

90s! 08-18-91 to be exact. I got conquests for my birthday! :)

I'm 14. It's amazing how civ appeals to everyone from people younger then me to people in their 60's! :)

'88. I'm a dragon. :D (Chinese Zodiac...)

hah, me too what month?

Most Civ Players are less than 29, actually.

1986. The year of three very important things...

- Halley's Comet Passes Earth

- Top Gun is Released in Theatres (Oh Yeah!)

- Keith Ward was friggin born!

So thus it proves I am awesome and the 80's were awesome. So all my fellow awesome people, stay frosty.

1227 Genghis Khan Dies

1587 First English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)

1686 Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus

1817 Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore

1834 Mt Vesuvius erupts

1835 Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago

1838 First US marine expedition

All on my Birthday (august 18)!

1986. The year of three very important things...
Make that four things since I graduated from high school in 1986. I was born in 1968. :smoke:

P.S. Why don't we have a hippie smilie?

P.S. Why don't we have a hippie smilie?
:smoke:

1952 for me. Toward the well aged end of the spectrum here :)

87! YAY
The year of <insert important hapening in 1987 here>

1982http://andjo.free.fr/nil.gif

hmmm.... the 60's :smoke:

1976... I guess most of the people over 25 have not posted in this thread yet.

I am from 1987 too, been playing Civilization for at least a quarter of my life...

1984, start played at 13 year old on Civ 2 on playstation, now i have civ 3 conquest.

I played at civ 2 recently on my emule, and is still good but hard to manage every city not like civ 3.

1970. Why do I feel old?

You feel old...try 1958!

The 80's is the highest, makes sense. 70's all about peace, 80's all about kicking ass.

89 for me.
August 16 to be exact...
Makes me a snake!
Also the day Elvis died.
I learnt to read playing civ1 :D

Go 90's! (11 year old here, 93) [dance]
geez, everybody is in the 80's :eek: :eek:

70's here. :mischief:

Sixties 'twas.

Two votes for the new generation... :lol: too bad we can't see who they are. ;)

I barely squeek into the eighties, being born early in 80.

'78 :king:

The nineties!! 27-08-1991

eighties!!! 1989

'91 for me.

1982, also think its interesting to see so many "older" people playing civ 3

I'm such an eighties, but I was born in 1990. All my friend's are 88's and 89's, coz I skipped up, and started a year early.

But 14 year old's play Civilization III, glad to see we're 3rd most common.

'93
How can a 4 year old post on forums, much less play civ3?

'93
How can a 4 year old post on forums, much less play civ3?
Most Likely a joke
Yay! More 93's! :D

:wavey: 1990 over here!

1982, also think its interesting to see so many "older" people playing civ 3

1968 -- I think it's interesting, and pretty cool, to see so many ~younger~ people playing CIV III. The game takes patience, planning, strategic thought -- not exactly my strong suits back in the day.

I was born in 78. Now I have a question on this poll. Did we ever have a year 0AD? I don't think we did, so that means each decade starts at 1 and ends in 0.

the sixties here.......may69

1981 over here.

Wow so many older types in this forum. I guess that helps explain the overall maturity of this forum when compared to other forums...or for that matter the Internet on a whole.

1947 - a long time ago!!!

88 here...How can you young guys play this game so well? My little brother(92) plays, and he is stuck on regent. you youngsters should be setting buildings on fire and such. Leave Civ 3 until you are old and feeble!

1980's! I'm actually in the majority here for a change! :)

'81 here, almost an oldy...

I was born in 78. Now I have a question on this poll. Did we ever have a year 0AD? I don't think we did, so that means each decade starts at 1 and ends in 0.

Well that's a question of definition and a decade can be every period of ten years if you like.
But when you talk about the "Sixties" I think there is a common agreement that these are the years from 60 till 69. And these form of decades I wanted to look at.;)

'89!!!! Of course I've only been playing civ for about 1 year...but go eighties!!!

Perhaps we need another poll - How Many People Here Are Younger Than Civ? :) .

1979, go year of the goat. :goodjob: :D

eighties here :).

Welcome to CFC, hertlblau. Usually you want to open a thread with your first post to get a welcome, but I saw your post count.

1985......

I just noticed...should it not be Nineties?

Mid 70's here!
;)

76' myself. My dad plays civ and he was born in the 40's.

Born in the Fifties! ouch!

1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991#September)

Cool... born in the middle of a crisis...

83' here ..............my dad plays and he is over 40............he is the one whoo introduced civ2 to me
thanks

69, Dude! *insert Beavis/Butthead snickering here*

Between the first moon landing and the birth of the Internet.

72 here. Born during the first game of the epic Canada/Russia summit series.

1980. Go Eighties.

1976! Year of Punk!!!!
But i play civ since 1992, when I was 16 years old.

P.S.: and I'm a Dragon too!

'75 here. Yikes, getting older by the minute... ;)

Add another to the 80's. '87 here. Just turned 17.

1971 for me. This poll makes me miss my Atari 2600 and good Star Wars movies.

I'm 14 and born on October 29th, 1990. The History Channel website only has the execution of Walter Raleigh and Black Tuesday for historical events on October 29th.

1990. Where are the rest of my pals who play Civ3?

70's.

About ages: Surprisingly many 40+ aged people playing considering computers had no place in their childhood. Surprisingly many adolescents playing considering the level of depth & patience required to play Civ.

Having both is what makes Civ the great game that it is.

I'm 14, and I've been playing sine I was 13, and I was born in 1990, so I'm one of those 40-something 90's people that voted here. Mt dad plays this as well (he's 45), the only computer game he has ever played in his life and probably the only one he ever will play. A bunch of my dad's friends from the office play it too, and a few of my friends (and my brother occasionally).

teh 84 si teh year to be born in.

McM

1992 in the house! 90's fo life.

1970. Yukio Mishima commits seppuku on my birthday.

I see that Volstag, doc mabuse, and I joined the rest of the world in 1970!

:eek: Why do people have to be silly? :confused: No one posting here has been born from 2000-2004. If you are then you are a wiz-kid. Let's be serious people or the poll becomes meaningless! :rolleyes:

:eek: Why do people have to be silly? :confused: No one posting here has been born from 2000-2004. If you are then you are a wiz-kid. Let's be serious people or the poll becomes meaningless! :rolleyes:



I absolutely agree ! :nono:

12/31/1989

1981 here. Been playing Civ since '93 but need to improve my game :p :p

1989 here.
Played civ almost one year [party]

1985! Tetris is developed! Albeit, not on my birthday, but still in June! Go the 7th!

Got into the game during third grade when a friend recommended "Caesar II", I forgot the title of the game when I went to Best Buy with my dad, and told the cashier I was looking for a "C... 2" game where you built up cities, conquered the world, and could be the Romans.

Best mistake I've ever made.

I just wish I could get higher than Regent on Civ3 and Prince on Civ2... I've played for a long time, but learned nearly jack shizzy ^^;;

early/mid 90's (93) :)

1986 year of nuclear explosions and massive chemical fires :D

1972 and a pig (in a Chinese way only !!!).

I was walking in the 80s! [dance]

12/31/1989

Eh, that doesn't fit with your signature, does it? :confused:

Oh yeah, almost forgot, I'm 1987... But I like to see that there is that much variation in age, both older and younger players

1989 here, woo!

1987 born here. Man the eighties rocked! ;)

I think they were probably a better time to be born than to actually spend one's youth in ;) (Or so's my understanding:D)

Eighties. :)

87. I didn't imagine so many people older than 20-25 play computer games seriously and even hadjoined to forum connected with it. I'm happy civ is not played by teens. Mayby now I'll try to convince my father to play it in order to understand me how I can play for so long. :)

Hooray for 1988

1974 .....

1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991#September)

Cool... born in the middle of a crisis...
Finally, someone born the same year as me!
BTW, OCT1991

1942, less than 2 months after Pearl Harbor. I just turned 63 yesterday. :D

A turn-based game like this is perfect for an older person whose physical reflexes may have slowed down, but not their mind. Um, what was the question??? :p

79', Just made it :goodjob:

1948
I bought my first computer, which I still have, in 1987, a compaq portable (lunch box style) running windows 2.0, 40 MB HD and an 386-20 MgH processor. It cost $5,000 (1987 dollars). :eek:

I started playing Civ when it first came out.

'91 and lovin' it! :cool:

Im 16, but I play like such a BEAST. Cats be thinkin Im an old head cos I be makin duper calculated moves.
Holla

Thirties here --- only two us us so far. Built my first computer in 1981
Been away for awhile, originally signed on as Moulton.

1975...Years just fly by. Started playing games in christmas 1983, when I got Canon V20 MSX and Vacuumania-game...feels like yesterday, certain sign that I'm getting old. :cry:

9.2.1989

I'm a backseat accident ;)

1972 vintage - the original CIV came just when I was a freshman and living in a university dormatory. (not good!) I think my first videogame exposure was my uncle's "pong" game. You know, the one with the paddles and the bouncing ball that connected to the TV. Around 1980, I played "Dambusters" on the Commodore PET in our library, shortly after that I got a VIC20, then in 1984 a Commodore 64. Its all history since then. People my age were probably the first kids to grow-up in the videogame generation.

If I could vote a second time, I'd add my older daughter (2001). She is crazy about watching me play CIV3.

The Sixties for me. Time does fly really fast, doesn't it? Must play less Civ and spend more time on the real world while I still can.

I was born in 1966.

The 80s, barely - I was born in 1989.

1974 here. :)

1979 was the year.... :dance:

1991 - I'm 13, and at least 4 of my friends in my grade play Civ3.

Btw- I'm hoping all the people who said they were born after 2000 are joking. No one that young should be on the internet.

very late 70s

9.2.1989

I'm a backseat accident ;)
poor thing... hope your not another david berkowitz :cringe:

73

suprised so many civers are younger than i, had no idea there were so many teenagers playing, thought they all played either really violent games or sports games so I am really impressed that the younger people (not that I am old) are so interested in a strategy game.

I was born in the 60's, the year when

:sad: J.F.Kennedy RIP
:D Debut of Dr.Who on BBC
:cool: Invention of the original :)

The Eighties. Quite the decade. :)

1980 I have grown watching Knight Rider, The A-Team and Miami Vice. Oddly enoguh I managed to obtain a degree. :groucho:

'89.

But my dad also plays; he's 1950's

Nineteen eighty-five.

1978.. I wish i was born in 10 years later though... when i was 16, all i had was an Amiga 600!!
All you teenagers now have hideously powerful pc's!!

I'm definitely an oldie. 1942. Been playing since the first civ came and didn't feel so old until I saw the results of the this pole.

Just got back to civ after having a couple of rounds with Farcry and Half Life 2. Need to slow down a little. Old age you know.

lots of kids here

1988, didn't realise so many people born in the eighties played civ, I know of only one person in my year at school that plays it a bit.

1965
I didn't feel "old" before I read this thread. :)

Gosh, Arachnaphobia, you must feel lonely (all of my friends play it / will buy civ3)

I was born in 1987! It is my birthday in 8 days and I will turn 18, oh ya! What a good year, it is a big milestone, I can't wait...

Everyone thinks about different things when they think about turning 18....
You know who you are and what I am talking about.

At 18, you will be tried in court as an adult.
At 18, you can order things over the phone, from infomercials.
At 18, if you couldn't or didn't before most people will have a driver's license.
At 18, if you weren't already, most people will be working at a job.
At 18, you can legally have consensual sex with another person over 18.
At 18, you can do pretty much anything adults can do except drink alcohol.
At 18, you are pretty much an adult in every way other than having the wisdom and maturity that comes with age and further wiring of the prefrontal cortex.

There is one thing I left out that comes with turning 18 in the US. The thing I am most looking foreword to.

The thing I am most looking foreword to is voting. We all know how important that is especially in today's political climate and in the United States (where I live).

Me and my generation are becoming the future leaders, thinkers, and workers. Our brains and bodies are being rewired and retooled and most of us will decide at this point in their lives if they want to be further educated and go into college and decide what their major is going to be. Some people haven't made up their minds yet.

I am going to stay near my home (Chicago) and hope to major in computer science and become a systems administrator, computer programmer, or help desk technician.

Wow this sort of turned out to be a mini-autobiography of my future.

I must say I am surprised so many other people are surprised at their being people older than them playing Civ. I assumed more older people would be playing than young people. As someone said in this thread, you need a lot of patience and planning to be good at this game.

I like the fact that this thread goes by when we are born instead of how old we are but I think it should be in reverse order, with younger generations at the top and older at the bottom, and their should be a 10's and 20's generation listed.

I was born in the 60's, the year when

:sad: J.F.Kennedy RIP
:D Debut of Dr.Who on BBC
:cool: Invention of the original :)1963!
Dude! :thumbsup:

1991 : ) 13 years old, almost 14

Finally, someone born the same year as me!
BTW, OCT1991

As i look at this, alot of people are born in 1991.

AndrewH
thescaryworker
General Joey
Puglover
Luddi VII
disturbed bacon
Dreadnought
Fundamentality

That is alot of 13 and 14 year olds playing civ.

'89 damn 10 charactrers

'84... golden year

The year I was born...so is Jerry Rice, Bo Jackson, Roger Clemens, Axl Rose, Jon Bon Jovi, Flea, Paula Abdul, MC Hammer, Sheryl Crow, Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Emilio Estevez, Ferris Buehler, Demi Moore, Jodi Foster and for you Brits Courtney Walsh.

Also of note...Supreme Court rules prayer in school unconstitutional, Eichman is hung in Israel, talks break off between Saudis and Egyptians, US sends a U-2 over Cuba and the entire world is under threat of nuclear war, panty hose is introduced, the inventor of the Pap Smear dies, Kennedy claims the US will put a man on the moon within a decade, Ranger-3 misses the moon by 22,000 miles, Ranger-4 crashes into the moon, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest is written, The Longest Day and To Kill a Mockingbird are in theaters, the 1st Beatles tune “Love Me Do” is out.

Hometown boy Ray Kroc has figured out how to efficiently make fries with cheeseburgers and if you believe in conspiracies villager Sam Giancanna is plotting Kennedy’s murder.

1962

'86 the best year ever.

92, 92, 92, 92, 92 Woooooooooo!!!!

Represent '92!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Tiger Year in 60s, do you know which year :confused:

The year I was born...so is Jerry Rice, Bo Jackson, Roger Clemens, Axl Rose, Jon Bon Jovi, Flea, Paula Abdul, MC Hammer, Sheryl Crow, Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Emilio Estevez, Ferris Buehler, Demi Moore, Jodi Foster and for you Brits Courtney Walsh.

Also of note...Supreme Court rules prayer in school unconstitutional, Eichman is hung in Israel, talks break off between Saudis and Egyptians, US sends a U-2 over Cuba and the entire world is under threat of nuclear war, panty hose is introduced, the inventor of the Pap Smear dies, Kennedy claims the US will put a man on the moon within a decade, Ranger-3 misses the moon by 22,000 miles, Ranger-4 crashes into the moon, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest is written, The Longest Day and To Kill a Mockingbird are in theaters, the 1st Beatles tune “Love Me Do” is out.

Hometown boy Ray Kroc has figured out how to efficiently make fries with cheeseburgers and if you believe in conspiracies villager Sam Giancanna is plotting Kennedy’s murder.

1962

Inventor Of the pap smear dies... a sad day indeed. lol

The sixties are also here. I was born in 1964. But I'll let all you young F%rts in on a secret. Age is only a number I'm younger than most of you!!! :banana:

I am an old boy.

The '80s, that fantastic decade that I can't even remember.

1984, the release of the Macintosh and showing the world that "1984 [wouldn't] be like '1984' " Hurray for the lack of Global Totalitarian Dictatorships!!!

Anyway, just now I realized that now, kids born in 2000 are 5 years old, and can talk, run around, are no longer true babies..... I'm feeling old.....

Wooo go 80's! :D

wow what a cool poll!

lol. you so funny.

The nice thing about this poll is that it won't really expire. The last selection will start to pick up posters in about 7 years. I'd like to see a 1000 votes. :D

I'm not getting old... I'm getting bitter.

Jan 1980

Transformers Gen1 ()wn35 j000000

The Nineties (13 years old)

70's, year of the Snake, or the little dragon, as we'd like to call it :)

-84, from the very same year as my car is.

1990, c'mon!!!
I started to play at eight, why is there so much 60, 70 and 80?
Everybody knows that we, the almighty quebecers, will dominate the world with the 90s crew (dans une galaxie près de chez vous) :lol:. Celebrate you future master !!!! :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship:

why is there so much 60, 70 and 80?

That was the golden age for breeding future civ players ;)

Year of the Rabbit
Hell loves a habit
Young as my country
Yippee, Hippie, 1963

1981.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." - Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities

That was the golden age for breeding future civ players ;)
No, 70 was only th first GA for the almighty QUEBECERS, as the next one will start in a few years. :lol: ;) :)
Vive Réné Lévesque!!!! Vive le FLQ!!!! Vive la RÉVOLUTION :ar15::ar15:

1963 here. Come on you 40 somethings!

:beer:

1967 - birth of me, the Camaro and the Firebird.

Good thing my demise did not match the Camaro's demise in 2002!

BTW I can confirm there is at least one civ player in my house from 2000 and younger, though he is not ready to post on the forums yet.

1977 for me. Just a couple of months after Elvis died. As I like to say: "One King leaves, another one arrives." lol :)

Funny, my younger brother says that, too :p

1989 for me. I don't know why you'd all be particularly interested in the exact year, or even me as a person but hey, everyone else is doing it and, well it adds to the post count I guess (I used to be part of a forum where post count was EVERYTHING)

1980 here.

Go '92

Man, are there really 70 year old people on this forum or are people joking?
I started playing civ when I was 6.I picked the civ with the longest name:the carthaginians.I can still remember that game....trapped on a tiny Island,though I founded my cities so slowly I didnt realize how small it was till' the other civs discovered me.The germans gave me their world map out of pity

Man, are there really 70 year old people on this forum or are people joking?I can't speak for 70's, but I'm 63. I remember my grandparents playing card games all night, but that was long before there were computers. A turn-based game doesn't take the fast reflexes of a younger person, and not all older folks become senile. Even if ya DO get a little slower in old age, you can take all the time you want deciding what you want to do. ;)

'78.

Man, I played Civ since it first came out. I actually played Pong! as a kid.
I don't even feel old, I'm not even 30. ;-)

It seems odd that the teenage generation would make up most of the population of players on Civ 3. Its not really a game that they play much. I'm like the only one i know that plays civ3 or has even heard of it, and im only 15. You would think about a game that is based on history would apeal more to the older generation than a newer one.

'89 here B-day today to be exact.(april 17) boo-yah

1985. I remember the power rangers, do you?

It seems odd that the teenage generation would make up most of the population of players on Civ 3. Its not really a game that they play much. I'm like the only one i know that plays civ3 or has even heard of it, and im only 15. You would think about a game that is based on history would apeal more to the older generation than a newer one.I'm gladly surprised as well, I would have considered myself (20, '85) to be among the youngest to play that game; I'm the youngest I know, at any rate.

the decade metallica ruled

1985 here, whereas my father who is also a civ nut ( and got me into Civ when Civ 1 came out) is 1938 :eek: !!!!! Yes, there is a slight age difference. ;)

And I thought my dad was old :p

here is 1979.Old school gives the best players.This is not a game for kids,but i start to play civ wit 16 years ,now i got 25 and i still love it.LONG LIVE CIVILISATION

'86, baby.

.LONG LIVE CIVILISATIONAnd even longer Zerbia. Learn how to spell. ;)

12 here, in the 6th grade at willow spring elementry school. ive been playing civ a 1/4 of my life :lol:
(i have the same birthday as Bede, :wow: )
heres all the stuff (http://www.thisdaythatyear.com/mar/events16.htm) that happened on my b-day

I'm 12 ('92 Whoo! whatever), and will someday be playing civ 20 when I'm old. MadViking, you must have started when you where (brings out calculator) 9. That's when I started too!

whats going on with the post 2000 , are their dads makeing them play as a cheap way to school these kids ??!!

civ 20
its been about tens years for three games, so an average of 3.33... years per game multiply that by twenty, you get, 66.66... years add twelve and you get 78 years! :crazyeye::lol:

100th post! :dance:[party]:banana::dance:[party]:banana::dance:[party]

1991, im 14, going into high school this upcoming year as a freshman

346th POST!!! :D :king: :king: :scan: :D :dance:

1981.... Positioned skillfully between the 70's hangover and the 80's kicking into gear...

Played since Civ II........ though i did have a few goes of the original Civ :)

15th September 1980, 40 years to the day since the RAF began to win the Battle of Britain and timed just right so that my musical maturity kicked in around the same time Oasis released 'Definately Maybe'

Bloody Awesome!!

Spent so many hours on Civ during that time that I would be afraid to try and quantify it!

i squeaked into the 70's: 1979

Welcome to CFC MA. Don't forget to check out the history and Off topic fora when you need a change of pace. :)

1982.

Played all versions of civ excessively and (funny fact) always long after they came out...I was playing Civ1, when Civ2 came out, played Civ2 until 2003 and just got C3C...

And I still remember my first Civ1-game. Started on an island with no other nation on it. I had no idea what to do, just built some warriors, walked over the island...until some big nation came and just walked over me...

1982. I have played all three civs with the expansions. I don't really think they could anything to make me not like Civ 4. :)

And even longer Zerbia. Learn how to spell. ;)

Why learn how to spell? She's spelt Civilisation correct.

Don't bow to the American spelling Becca! :cool:

1949

I played Pong as an adult! :borg:

I'm impressed with the youth for playing Civ 3. I thought they would be interested in the more action paced games like Grand Theft Auto. My hat is off to y'all.

My job keeps me at a computer terminal most of the day. I once programmed business systems using COBOL.

1984-
It all started one booring summer in the 6th grade when I bought CIV for the SNES at FUNCOLAND, now neither exists but my love presists. :love:
But we need to admit that we've come a long way baby, and that reheated coffee we call civ tastes just as sweet every time.

Cheers

1961
Ah the 60's. NASCAR was still pure. Golf was not a tech show. My friends and I could use the whole neighborhood for capture the flag, at night, and the parents were the biggest cheats in the game. Anybody miss Mayberry?

1983. Played since Civ 1 :D

The days of seeing Phalanx vs Armor battles :D

Don't bow to the American spelling Becca! :cool:Don't bow to english language either. Write CIVILIZACIJA.

Ah 1991, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed, Iraq invaded Kuwait and Sonic the Hedgehog was born. :D


:dance: 4th Post :dance:

1990. Did anything happen that year? No? Thought so.

:band: First Post!!! :band:

1971. Jim Morrision died that year, pretty much the only thing I can think of.

Glad this got a bump. Only 40 or so more votes to break 1000. :)

1982
considered like the best year for wines in bordeaux
malouina invaded
solidarnosc declared illegal in Poland
Helmut kohl chancelor of Germany
Fahd became king of Saudi Arabia
500 000 persons listening Mike and Keith in Central Parc
Gandhi in the theaters
third world cup for Italy (grrr schumacher in semi-final!!!)
Tony Parker, Prince William, Ian Thorpe and Kirsten Dunst were born
Philip K Dick, Henri Fonda, Romi Schneider, Grace Kelly and Brejnev died

what a year!!!

what kind of 5 year old plays civ??!!??

1988. Special year cuz I was born!

How can a 5-yo play Civilization? How can he even read a forum? :lol:

I already voted long ago... but...

1985 for myself

1938 for my father :D

How can a 5-yo play Civilization? How can he even read a forum? :lol:


I read the Peloponnesian War by Thucidyes when I was six. I kid you not. Blame my father. No wonder I'm so disturbed/messed up! :crazyeye: :mischief: ;) :)

How can a 5-yo play Civilization? How can he even read a forum? :lol:
you would be suprise. My 5yr old nephew knows how to play this game? But then he is smarter then most 5yr olds.

1967, too late for the free love era. Early enough to remember Vietnam. Just right to run in the 80's and love it. Old enough in the 90's and 2000's to be sad for the way we've let things become. Oh, it's still be best thing going but it could be oh so much better. I played pong and was addicted from that day on for computer games. Who would have thought then that we'd have home computers. If I'd only invested in Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Intel, AMD, etc then what would I be now?

Can't believe there this many older people here. I didn't know people over 30 played gameslike civ3!

People over 30 invented games like Civ...

1973 huuuu.. US legalize abortion... #%&@ I'm french.. ^^
Vietnam is over and OLP is rising.. Year of Petrol..
Death of Bruce Lee, JRR tolkien ( :( ), Pablo Picasso, John Ford, Ben Webster
Birth of euh... Christine Aaron, Neve Campbell, Tabatha Cash, Julia Chanel, Monica Lewinsky :D, Robert Pirès...

I've played Pong too ;)
First computer, an Oric Atmos, 48K...

Civ series, games to be remembered by all ages.

I was born in 1990. I feel special.

Nice thread. 87 for me (1987 not 87 years old) as stated below

1973 huuuu... Death of Pablo Picasso
:hmm:

I was born in 1987, like a lot of people my age. ;)

@knupp715 - There is an edit button that allows you to edit your first post instead of posting a second one correcting the first one.

@regent man - thanks I never seemed to relize that. Ill edit my first one now. Too bad there isnt a delete button (that I know about) to delete my second message


Just ask one of your friendly neighborhood moderators. ;) --Padma

How to date me:

I can remember the Berlin wall falling (we even had German exchange students at our house).

I can remember: X-wing (the expansion B-wing), the release of TIE fighter and its expansion. My first computer (for my family and I) was an Apple II. I remember Windows 3.1 on our next computer!

We were on the internet in 1992. I remember most of class asking "What is that?" Of course it helps having a brother working at the place that created it (CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland). My brother is 15 years older then me.

I remeber Sega Genesis coming out, as well as SNES. I had the originial Sonic games, and Super Mario Kart.

I was the 'tween' generation... the generation that grew up just after the Cold War, but before today's chaos. I remember my classmates (in 4th grade) making fun of me for reading Tom Clany's "Red Storm Rising" by saying "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians are coming!" without being worried.

I played Sid Meir's Covert Action, Pirates, Civ 1, Colinization, Civ 2, Alpha Centauri, Civ 3, and soon Civ 4. I also remember going "Oooh!" At Covert Action's graphics. :lol:

I also remember (at least I think I do) when they opened the first McDonalds in Moscow, and I remember thinking "Wow, right?" ;)

I voted about 9 months ago, but...

When I was born, Roosevelt was still President, Pearl Harbor had been hit by the Japanese 2 months earlier, TV was still just a laboratory experiment, the first computer (using vacuum tubes) had not yet been built, most people still used "ice boxes" and the guy who delivered the ice drove a carriage with a horse :eek: (yeah, we had trucks, but he didn't).

Can't say I long for "the good old days". I love my computer!!! :D

You're the first person I've heard say "I don't care for the good old days." Civ is a good reason though. I don't know how the previous generation occupied themselves.

I have also polled by age previously

But was born in the year of the smilie, Dr.Who and the magic bullet ;)

I was born in 900 B.C. You see i am immortal...I have no equal....


1978. I am halfway being young before i get old.

I voted about 9 months ago, but...

When I was born, Roosevelt was still President, Pearl Harbor had been hit by the Japanese 2 months earlier, TV was still just a laboratory experiment, the first computer (using vacuum tubes) had not yet been built, most people still used "ice boxes" and the guy who delivered the ice drove a carriage with a horse :eek: (yeah, we had trucks, but he didn't).

Can't say I long for "the good old days". I love my computer!!! :D

My dad remembers this massive artillary train being led by horses, right before American involvement in WWII, when the Army was changing to trucks. Granted, as he was only tiny guy at the time he remembers it because of the Horses and only found out later what was going on. ;) That's his first memory too.

:bump: for all the newbies!

Nice job reviving this thread, Birdjaguar! I reckon it should be STICKY, keeps new threads on the same topic popping up all the time...

edit: it should also be moved to the Civ4 section, where people can find it!

Why not start another in Civ4 and compare the demographic ;)

Good Idea....

Very pleased my decade won :)

Ha ha! It's not a competition, James I!