ColdWizard
Ancient
I haven't even played civ4 yet
Gosh, I get to one up everybody. I was playing Civ before the personal computer was a common device. In the early to mid eighties some friends and I played Civilization the Board Game. It had many features which remain in place until this day: Filling a "food box" to grow your population. Losing population in order to create a new settler. Creating technologies in order to get new kinds of units. Even a trade system of sorts where you collected cards representing different commodities which could be traded in in groups for gold Risk style.