How did ur obsession start?

[RabidMonkeyMan]

my cousins owned civ 2 and i played a game or two of it, but i wasnt really obsessed with it. i then played around on the g4 forums around the time the station started (when it didnt suck) and met some friends on there, and one of them was really into civ3 so i baught and started playing that alot, i just love it

 

[chrissicom]

I don't remember how old I was (now I am 23) but the first time I saw Civ 1 was when I visited a friend and he showed me his computer and a new game that was released that day and he bought. I immediately fell in love with it (was bored playing Transport Tycoon, which I still do though as OpenTTD) and played it longer than anything else. I also played Civ II and III for hours and hours because it's simply the best game in its genre. Besides Civ I don't play many other games, only AO and Sim City. Anyway Civ IV will rock and my order has just been shipped to Germany with UPS Express I can't sleep until I get it lol and when I have it I even more can't sleep lmao

 

[yendorII]

I got hooked at thirteen my uncle was building computers and he helped my build one of my own. Windows 3.1 was the rage then lol. I went to the store looking for something to do with my new found 133mhz processer 8mb ram monster(lol). I was lucky enough to find civ2 bundled with a game from sierra called outpost(good game btw). I dont think I stopped playing civ for the next month and have played thousands of hours of civ since.

 

[tomdory]

Ahh it was many years ago. It happened when I got my first computer, a brand spanking new 386 40 MHz with a huge 4MB of ram and an enormous 100MB HDD . One of the first games I got was Civilization, at first I had no clue about computers, ran the game in EGA (that’s 16 colours!), and had no clue how to play. Thought it was all a waste of money, a few months later a friend tells me you can run it in VGA (256 colours)... I was amazed, it was the prettiest game I had so I gave it a second chance, after taking my first enemy city I was hooked, and since then I’ve been addicted.

 

[FattyLumpkin]

Please forgive me because I’m a traitor…specifically a “pre-traitor”. It was not Civ that got me hooked on computer games. It was Myst for God’s sake! I didn’t even have a computer so would walk down to the office at 11pm and play until the wee hours of the morning. Myst ended up being a gateway drug! Quake 1 absolutely hooked me and made me dependent. My Civ interest came with Civ 2. I would rank the Civ series in the top 5 games but I seem to gravitate toward shooters first. I suspect that Civ 4 may destroy my recovery from addictive games

 

[PeachMonster]

Sophmore year at college. a guy across the hall was playing civ2. as i stood he told me about it and you had to do. someone down the hall started calling him and he let me play it. all i remember is spending all his money cause i thought each city had its own money, so i started rushing everything, whoops.

 

[ninty]

Civ 1 came with my 486 in the early to mid 90's. Installed it and was hooked. Soon to follow was:

Civ II
Civilization: Call to Power
Call to Power II
Civ III
and finally Civ IV

 

[Willowmound]

I must have been 14 in 1991. I don't remember my first game, or from whom exactly I got it, but it had been circulating among my extended group of friends for some time and I kept hearing about this game that was sort of like Empire but not. I don't remember getting hooked, only realising I already was. I thought I was the only one skipping school to play, then I found others were doing it too. We were all hooked. I really sucked at it for a very long time, and everyone else were playing higher difficulty levels than me. I was embarrassed to admit I never managed to research gunpowder BC. But I never stopped playing. Even when I wasn't at my computer I would be playing. Dreaming up strategies with my chin in my hands at the desk furthest back in class. Looking at my geography maps and seeing only invasion routes. Walking home ready to burst with ideas for how I would do it this time. Now an incredible fourteen years have passed, and while my friends all grew up and stopped playing ages ago, I never shook the habit. Never really wanted to. And now I not only kick AI arse, I even manage to research gunpowder BC from time to time. I guess practice makes perfect