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[Spievajuci]

This is just for fun.... How did you start playing civ2?
I have pretty good one... (i think)
I started as 8 years old an i could not speak english at all... i knew that 'start a new game' will start a new game so i just pushed few times enter and.....yiiiiiihaaaa i got a settler and i started exloring map... (i did know that i can build a city ) so i took some of that villages and when i had a lot of units I started conquering AI cities. I figured out that I can build a unit in a city, and then i started learning english in school, all the computer stuff was getting much much better, i started cheating on easiest level and having fun.... and after years, i got back to civilization, but i wasn't very good in it... i could beat prince AIs but then, there were better games like CS, Starcraft, Warcraft III and then I came to US. Of course computer stayed at home, so i got a really baaaaaad notebook, and the only game that i can play for years with love is civ2 so i started it again, now i have free internet so I always check civfanatics and now i am tryin to change to warlord... i know that warlord still suck, but i am not really fanatic, i dont get much time for playing games and bla bla.... i hope someonhe has a good storry...

 

[Stegyre]

My story isn't even two years old, yet. It all began when I was packing to move from L.A. in the summer of 2002. I came across a copy of Sid Meier's Colonization, which had been given to me by my younger brother a few years earlier, when I did not have a computer with a CD-rom to run it. Since gaming is ALWAYS more fun than packing, and since I now had state-of-the-art computer that could run it, I opened it up, tried it out, and was immediately hooked. I don't recall how exactly I heard of CivII, but I was on the lookout for other Sid Meier games expanding on the same concept as Colonization (essentially, creating your own nation, developing the citizens, the infrastructure, etc.). I was able to pick up a copy of CivII in a bargain bin (with Risk, included). At first, I did not like it nearly as much as Colonization: while I liked the concept of researching techs (a great advance over Colonization's "Founding Fathers"), I missed the specialization of the citizens: No elder statesmen, expert farmers, etc. But eventually I came around, as CivII is a much deeper game. (It didn't hurt that I discovered this site and really learned how to play.)

 

[funxus]

I was 7 and a friend's brother lent me this game called Civilization, and along with SimCity 2000 and Transport Tycoon were the only games I played essentially. Then I got a better computer and forgot about it until the same friend lent me Civ2 6-7 years ago. I then played on and off quite a lot, and when we got broadband I started looking for a civ site and ended up (first at Apolyton and then) here...

Having been at this place for so long, my friend isn't even close matching me at civ2.

 

[MikeLynch]

A friend of mine in High School, way back in like 1991 or '92 or something, introduced me to Civ 1 for DOS. He had a computer, which I thought was awesome at the time. I would spend hours at his house just watching him play -- because he almost never wanted to sacrifice his chair to me -- and yearning, yearning.

Then one day my dad brought home a computer that could run Civ. So I pirated it, got frustrated once too often by the copy protection, bought it, enjoyed it for a while, then lost the manual with which to defeat the copy protection. Luckily by then I didn't need it, as I knew the game so intimately well.

I got 1 or 2 additional friends addicted to it when I moved to a new state. I started messing around with the text files, adding Monty Python references and stuff, which greatly impressed these friends.

Then Civ2 came out, and after a very brief period of awkwardness with the isometric layout, I was addicted all over again.

The rest, as they say, is history.

 

[The Person]

I was introduced to Civ by my father, who didn't play anything else. I could watch him play for hours... Then he bought Civ2, and I tried it...you guess it. I was hooked at once. That was when I was eight. Now I'm sixteen. I repeat, that's half my life, just to get the perspective.

 

[funxus]

Does your father still play? And if so, do you beat him?