Civ I - Probably the best game of all time!

Yeees the good-old replay option. I loved to see my colour getting spread throughout the continent and all other civs disappeared slowly but surely. I was very sad I finished Civ II the first time and just saw the video and that’s it. Furthermore I miss the genial leader pictures of Civ I. I always broke out in laugh when I saw this funny grin when I agreed to a peace treaty this was hilarious. And finally the sweet little units. I like the knight most on his little horse :)
 
Oh almost forgot: The great great Civ newspaper, very informative especially this one:

"Volcano erupted people demand a temple" (I think it's something like this don't remember it exactly). I'm wondering all the time till today what the hell has a temple to do with a volcano eruption. Does it stop a volcano to break out if a build a temple :) ? Perhaps you might know the answer if so please let me know and finally put an end to many years of sleepless nights trying to get behind this secret ;)
 
Yeah, a temple prevents volcanoes for some reason. =P

But.. I've never seen the newspaper.. it isn't in the SNES version. And I've never seen the.. replay option? Is that only when you lose (I think I remember reading somewhere that you can see the growth and decline of your civ after being wiped out in a game) I've never seen it in the SNES version, although I haven't been completely wiped out either..
 
You get the replay option when you win (wipe out all other civs or launch the spaceship) or when you loose (being destroyed or the enemy launch the ship). I'm not sure if you get it also when the game ends due to the timelimit? This never happened to me as I always destroyed everybody or started the ship. Well this is the PC-version but perhaps they didn’t convert it 100% which is sad because the newspaper is great and I realized every civfan loves it.
 
dangit, now I want to try the PC version. =P Although I'm not sure I like the PC version's graphics.. what I've seen of them from screenshots it looks very bright and very 16-colour-ish. =\
 
They really have a Super NES version? Thats awesome! :goodjob:
Do you think I could still get it somehow?

- Narz :king:
 
Yeah. =P If you have an SNES, I guess you could look for it on eBay or something like that.. but if you don't then I guess you could just download an SNES emulator (ZSNES seems to be good) and look for a ROM. BUT, that's "illegal" unless you already own Civilization for SNES. =P 'course it's not like you can easilly buy it anymore.. =P
 
Originally posted by Marx
Civ is Genial. My first games were so f*cking cool (that times) Exploring the game was as exploring the world. It was so cool to master the game :D
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I agree.

The first time you actually build a city improvement.
The first time you build a wonder.
The first time you launch a nuke.... :D

Memories, sweet memories
Still the game can catch my attention for hours in a row although I can say I've become quite good at it and played it for about a year now.
 
I remember that, on one of my first games, I didn't understand where all these little figures came from. Each 4 or 5 turns there came another little unit (later turned out to be militias) out of my only city (I had finally discovered how to build a city!). I started moving them around the map, but it got very boring and there were still coming more of them. I was very pleased when I finally discovered the 'change' button and the 'f' option (to stop the militias from flickering every turn!).

This was when I started to like Civ. I already had it for about a year or so but the first ten months I didn't know how to make a city so my games were not very exciting...
 
:lol:
The same thing happened to me. I couldn't understand how other civs could grow so big: so many cities, so many units. I was just stuck there: one city 20 units....
 
Originally posted by addiv
I remember that, on one of my first games, I didn't understand where all these little figures came from. Each 4 or 5 turns there came another little unit (later turned out to be militias) out of my only city (I had finally discovered how to build a city!). I started moving them around the map, but it got very boring and there were still coming more of them. I was very pleased when I finally discovered the 'change' button and the 'f' option (to stop the militias from flickering every turn!).

This was when I started to like Civ. I already had it for about a year or so but the first ten months I didn't know how to make a city so my games were not very exciting...
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:lol: well I always wondered why I did get all those units for free. I was astonished: just build a city and the units began to be more and more in the end I felt invincible of having hundreds of these guys but I was disappointed very quickly as I started to try and conquer the world with them as the first city I attacked I was defeated decisively. (later it turned out I produced militas the whole game and attacked cities which had riflemen and mech inf in them;) )

I thought stupid game you produce units the whole time and than you can't even capture one city with them.
 
Yes, I loved Civ I too. Had computers for sixteen years and ignored all of the games. But several different people kept showing me the game, and I got hooked in 1985.

I remember wondering why cities grew so fast near the fish...

Played for years with my son -- I was the development chief and he was the general. "In three turns, I can deliver 2 Armor here, ok?" And he would look at one of my games, "Dad, you've got so many units and they're not DOING anything!"

But, now I play Civ2. The Terrain map of Civ1 was better, showed the roads and such.

I still show Civ1 to my little nephews, one at a time. I tell their parents, It's great practice with math, figuring how many more turns, and they get to read all of that stuff about the wonders and inventions. My little girls played it too -- it's an excellent introduction to history, and military development logistics.

My daughter the investment banker plays Alpha Centauri.
 
"what the hell has a temple to do with a volcano eruption"

propitiation was the principle science in the early days. Some still apply it although its effectiveness is disputed.
 
When I bought CIV1 in 1995, I was 15 years-old. My computer was a Pentium 75Mhz and the game looked from outer-world!!!

I understand most of the things quite fast.

The 1st time I play, Cesar killed my Phalanx with Armors... I was in an island and I didn't understand how backwards I were! Since that... "experience", I understood: Science is my primary goal and "Lots of cities the second".

The 2nd time I learn: never take it to Nuclear Wars (Seas rose very well in CIV1...). So I killed 2/3 of the world soon, developed, and then go to conquer with Armors :) Nothing between Knights and Armors make them so effective :D

The choose of the units was very good.
Terrain better.
And the details...
Only very recently I learned that the number of the advisors that came with the emissary of a foreign Civ telled us about their power!?!

And yes, the newspapper was Cool :)
 
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