Blast from the Past - Remembering Official Civ3 Websites from 2001

[Quintillus]

With Civ VII close to around the corner, I recently came across some of the vintage Civ3 websites, and thought it would make for a good trip down memory lane.

First is the official Civ3 website. I'm sure we all visited it many times. Sadly it went offline some time in 2015.

Next is its predecessor, Firaxis's website for Civ3 prior to launch. It has a few posts from Soren Johnson and Jeff Briggs describing features of the upcoming game, and even when the images for links don't load, the links generally work. Firaxis's main site also loads. Did you know that "firaxis" is "the fiery axis of creativity"?

You can also see the Microprose page for Civ3; Microprose was then part of Infogrames Interactive, Civ3's publisher.

Did you ever call technical support for Civ3, at 99 cents per minute? You can view information about how to do so from this page! Along with helpful tips like "Build a courthouse as soon as possible" and "Building a port gives an extra tile for a unit to stand on" (let me know if you know what that one means!)

If you're looking for the Mac version? That would be from Westlake Interactive.

And last but not least, here's the Civ3 team:



Sadly this image is not, as far as I can tell, labeled as to who's who. We probably all recognize Sid, but I'd be curious if you know who some of the other people are.

Hope you enjoyed some of these!

 

[vmxa]

Look at the monitors, lol.

 

[Spoonwood]

Look at the monitors, lol.

I remember it felt so much better once we all went flat screen.

 

[Levchuck]

(checks local archive)

It looks like... you can find it on my computer's hard drive! Hang on while I upload it to the Internet and restore the links...

Also, welcome to CivFanatics!

For future reference, the "Re-Upload Requests" thread is the best place for this sort of question, as more people will be looking there. I see you already tried the next-most-likely option with a profile post on the creator's forum... who knows, maybe Allein will reply back in a few days.

(This post will be updated with links once it's back on the Internet. Probably within the hour, although my upload speeds are slower than they used to be)

thank you so much I really appreciate this!!!!!!!!!!!!
also thanks for the welcome i have not been on this site since i was like 12 so happy to see its still here!
in the future i will use the re-uploads section

again, thank you I'm so excited to be able to play this again after all these years

 

[Lord_Hill]

There's a cracking line up of PC games on the Microprose / Infogrammes page if you click back to the main list. Total Annihilation, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Unreal Tournament, Grand Prix 3, that was a good time to be a PC gamer!

 

[vmxa]

Total Annihilation was a great game.

 

[Takhisis]

Look at the monitors, lol.

If you look closely enough, you'll see what appear to be floppy-disk slots.