How did you first encounter Civ2?

[Specialist290]

Thought I'd stir up some discussion in the community w/ a question about how and / or where everyone first came across the game, and why you bought it at the time. In other words, what was the one event that started the whole thing for you?

For me, I found it in the game section at Office Max, sometime around 1999-2000. I had already had Civ1 and loved it, so I thought I'd give Civ2 a shot since it promised to be an "improved" version. Since then, I played it almost constantly, but I could never really advance above Chieftain until I found this forum. I stopped playing it extensively about a year ago, but I still like to load up a game sometimes, and I think I'm starting to get back into the swing of things...

I apologize if a thread like this has been made before, but it's been so long since I've seen one that it probably justifies a new thread.

 

[Ali Ardavan]

When I was a graduate student I used to see people playing Civ1 late at night at the computing centers. Eventually I bought it for my newly purchased Mac and spent hundreds of hours playing it.

Several years later I found a website by this guy who called himself CivMan. Soon after Civ2 came about and I read about it on his website. He was very enthusiatic about Civ2. A year or so later Civ2 was available for Mac and I purchased it right away.

But by then my life allowed little time for playing Civ2. I read the manual back to back, dabbled in the game for a couple of hours to get the new feel, and then started my first game in October 1998.

I had played less than 10 games when I somehow heard that Civ3 is on its way. Searching for that on the web I found this website and quickly realized how much I did not know about Civ2. I started playing GOTMs and reading the site and got so hooked on Civ2 that even though I purchased Civ3 as soon as it came out for Mac, I never spent more than a few hours playing it by myself.

 

[Mercator]

Back in 1994 or so we still had a really old computer at home, while my friends were playing cool new games like Doom on their super-fast 486s. So I kept bugging them about games that would run on our computer, and that game was Civilization I.

Fast-forward to 1997. I was still playing Civ1 when I heard a class-mate got Civilization II for Christmas or something. I've never really followed games releases and stuff, so that was the first I heard of it, but of course I was immediately interested. I copied it from him, got completely addicted, and I bought the game in October, along with the Conflicts in Civilization add-on, and Fantastic Worlds soon after.

That was about the time we got an Internet connection too, so I started looking for Civ2 things online as well, found some long-gone Civ2 sites and started my own.

I think I started playing less ever since I actually bought Civ2, and I haven't played any serious game for about 3 years now.

 

[Technocactus]

I found it on my dad's computer. The rest is history.

 

[PaulT]

I saw it in the back of a Scholastic magazine and mowed lawns untill I had enough money to buy it.

Once the sacred package arrived at my door, I played it untill my eyes bled. Then I bought the board game, made my friends buy the computer game, and played untill my fingers broke.

 

[Magic_gorter]

When I was at school in 1993/1994 I saw a friend playing civ 1. Not long after that I got civ 1 myself and liked it a lot. Years later I found a game box containing settlers 2, sim city 2000 and civ2. I started playing around 1998/1999. While a was almost finished with school and played baseball in one of the higher leagues in Holland I had not much time to play civ2 so I stopped. A few years later I found my cd and tried it. Because of the video problems I found the CFC-site this year and started again playing civ2. I love it very much and improved a lot in a few months. If I have time left I now play it. The next months will be difficult for much time because my second child is expected in december.

 

[tomsnowman123]

I decided to try it out after getting CIV IV. Needless to say, it is better.

 

[Frate]

It looked fun when i borrowed it from my grandpa year 2000.
Too bad i didn't understand a dipshit of it until now when i decided to reinstall it...

 

[civdood]

Frinds play it, when i saw it look so fun and thinking game. time to play is not in each day with school except in holidays, but so happy i hear about this good good game, plus it run on slow machine and take tiny space.

 

[Peaster]

A friend gave me Civ1 in about 1993, and I became fairly addicted to it. It gradually replaced chess as my favorite pastime. I bought Civ2 in about 98, but wasn't really aware that anyone else played it, or that it could be taken seriously, until I found the Poly and CFC websites in 2003. Then I saw what a noob I was!

 

[s.c.dude]

I found it on my dad's computer. The rest is history.

same here

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I got it in a pack including Sim City 2000 and Settlers 2, which I bought for the former. I hadn't even heard about Civilization at this point, yet of the three games it was the one I came to play the most

 

[Till]

I bought it, once i spotted it in a shop (It was a compilation of Cvi2, Civ2 Fantastic Worlds and Civ2 Scenarios). Until then i had played a friend's copy of civ1. Still remember how overwhelmed i was with the civ2 graphics!

 

[Elys]

At the time I was so impatient to get Civilization II Multiplayer Gold, that I pre-ordered it directly on the Microprose US website and got it shipped with airmail to France once it was released. I could not wait like at least a month more to get it released in Europe

Before that, I started with (copies of )Civilization for DOS, then Civilization for Windows. And later I bought CivNet.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Actually, Civ2 was the first civ game that i played. I think a friend (or was it my uncle ...) gave it to me.