Where to Buy Civ 1?

I am a purist and I would like to buy or find out where to buy a copy of "Civilization" in it's original box set (with the manual inside etc).

Thanks!


Fuzzy the Third

That's a great question and a laudable aspiration!

But I don't have an answer. Civ1 seems more readily available bundled with other games nowadays. Even my set which I got in England three years ago and cost me £10 is boxed by itself with a manual. But it's hardly an 'original' set. Perhaps it depends where you live.

14 years on from my initial post, I am a much older man now, and I realized that I never gave "closure" to the "aspiration" (as Stormerne calls it) expressed in this thread. I am not sure if Stormerne is still around or that any one cares, but this post is for myself, I guess...

So I shall now report that I eventually *did* find a set. Hurrah! The disks are now next to useless, of course, but there is now a sense of completeness of owning both the digital component and the real-world component. (My digital component was my original one from childhood that I conscientiously migrated from 286 computer to 486 computer to computer to computer to computer...)


Yiren.

Cool, I grew up playing this game. I still don't have my own copy, just the set of files someone installed on my old computer that I just keeping copying from one computer to another. I remember the days of the old 386 computers, lots of good memories.

fuzzy3, Congratulations for tracking down your hard copy. It is always good news when a goal is achieved, no matter how small or remote. What do you mean, though, by "The disks are now next to useless, of course" ? Is it really about floppy disks being defunct, or did you get a set of disks that have digitally perished? That, of course, would be a shame after all these years of searching!!

Anyway, I've been after a good printed manual now for some time, but without satisfaction at present. The hunt is still on.

shelleyfrank said:

fuzzy3, Congratulations for tracking down your hard copy. It is always good news when a goal is achieved, no matter how small or remote. What do you mean, though, by "The disks are now next to useless, of course" ? Is it really about floppy disks being defunct, or did you get a set of disks that have digitally perished? That, of course, would be a shame after all these years of searching!!

Anyway, I've been after a good printed manual now for some time, but without satisfaction at present. The hunt is still on.

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Thanks for the support, Shelley. My comment on the disks is more that I do not have the drives to read them. The disks (both 5 1/4" set & 3 1/2" set) could very well still be perfectly functional.

P.S. My manual is in pretty good condition. Not for sale (yet) though.


Yiren.