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My unclde introduced me to civ2 back in 1997. Got civ3 2001.
How did you first find out about civ?
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Knowze Gungk
NOT a mushroom
1The LORD GOD came down from the heavens on a flaming chariot of stuffed frogs (don't ask me why) and delivered unto me, Sid Mier's Civilization 2Take this game, he said, and on this day ye shall do no work, for this is (the) sabbath day and you shall keep it holy by playing (just) one more turn before ye knock off 3Ye shall do this, for I am the LORD GOD and I have spoken 4On this sabbath day ye shall take the holy beer from (the) fridge and ye shall drink (it) and ye shall play turn after turn until ye have achieved the greatness ye desire 5Even after achieving your goals ye shall not stop, oh no, ye shall burn thy heathen enemy with (the) holy nuke 6I am the LORD GOD and I say these things and ye shall do these things I say, for I am the LORD GOD...
truckingpete
On a Stark Trek
I saw it in a school software order...I looked on the internet for some reviews and got it at Office Max...I got Conquest for Christmas
Eastern Knight
Dragons!
I saw it in the store and bought it. That's all.
downwithgravity
Zen Rocker
i played alpha centauri and loved it, then i read about civ 3 in PC Gamer (or was it CGW?) when they first ran the article about it. it had the statue of liberty lying on the ground on the cover, and i was intrigued, so i bought it when it came out, and i've been civving ever since.
AngryGerbil
A gerbil that is angry
My best friend in Junior High was pretty computer savvy and introduced me to Civ1 in the early 90's. I played it and liked but lost interest after a few months.
A few years later Civ2 was released and I bought it without knowing anything about it other than the first one was pretty cool....
....I now classify the Civilization series as the greatest accomplishment in video gaming history.
A few years later Civ2 was released and I bought it without knowing anything about it other than the first one was pretty cool....
....I now classify the Civilization series as the greatest accomplishment in video gaming history.
Dida
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My first Civ game was not a 'civ' game. It was Call to Power 1. I read an ad for that game on a magazine, (forgot which one, maybe Time magazine) and it sounded really cool. Coincidentally, a few days later, as I was strolling down the aisles in a Staple, they had it on sale. So I bought it and got addicted to that game.
CTP was kind of stupid, and very stupid comparing to Civ3. But it had some good innovative ideas. I never played Civ1 and Civ2. I have played a little bit of SMAC, it was uninteresting. CTP 2 I also bought, it was so terrible that I sold it after a week.
Civ3 though, is great!
CTP was kind of stupid, and very stupid comparing to Civ3. But it had some good innovative ideas. I never played Civ1 and Civ2. I have played a little bit of SMAC, it was uninteresting. CTP 2 I also bought, it was so terrible that I sold it after a week.
Civ3 though, is great!
Jaded_Feriluce
Dark Lord of the Regents
This will sound pretty stupid.... BUT Im gonna say it anyways. One day WAY back in 1999, I donated blood... got 20 dollors, I was going to go buy some smokes with it. (like any responsable addict would) But for some reason I ended up in Toy r Us..... wandering down the isles, I saw a bunch of computer games on sale...... I personally didnt even own a computer then (but my g\f did and like civ2 is obsolete... so is this past g\f). To make a long story short, I saw civ2 gold edition for only 19 dollars. I was like wow! I've never heard of this game... but what a NIFTY box! So I bought it, found out I could be Hitler in the WWII scenaro, months later...... I was still playing. Last year I finnaly had the money for civ3.... and yet still did not own a computer... even had rent to pay.... but did that stop me? NO WAY! Civ3 looked sooo much cooler then civ2 I just had to do it..... and here I am now babbleing away like a fool...... Guess what? I STILL DONT OWN A COMPUTER!!!!!!!! But I was makin over 1000 gpt on my last regent game.... hows that for satifaction?
Brewster
stays crunchy in milk
I was visiting a friend back in Dec 2002 and got him to describe the game he had been playing for the previous few weeks. After a quick info session, I went out and got Civ3 GOTY edition. Except for a short stint on Neverwinter Nights a few months ago, it is the only game I play.
HamaticBabylon
Deity
I got civ3 in 2001 and then ptw in 2002 and then conquest in 2003
I got a Microprose demo CD (Copyright 1991-2 on it) with Civ1, Rail Road Tycoon1, and Nighthawk: Stealth Fighter.
I got hooked on Civ1 until I found out the version of Civ that came on the CD was a version with a bug
where the game would freeze anytime the advisors had nothing to say. In other words, it would freeze as soon as I was doing a good job 
! When I had expierience with Civ1 and was good at it, it froze all the time. I had to learn to play well but make mistakes on purpose so the advisors would still have something to advise me about!
I was very happy when Civ2 came out and bought it right away, and I have bought every civ upgrade since!
I got hooked on Civ1 until I found out the version of Civ that came on the CD was a version with a bug
where the game would freeze anytime the advisors had nothing to say. In other words, it would freeze as soon as I was doing a good job ! When I had expierience with Civ1 and was good at it, it froze all the time. I had to learn to play well but make mistakes on purpose so the advisors would still have something to advise me about!I was very happy when Civ2 came out and bought it right away, and I have bought every civ upgrade since
!I got Civ1 from a friend back in 1992 for my Commodore Amiga - had to play directly from the floppies (no harddisk) - so don't complain to me about large maps slowing your 1 ghz comp today!!!
Btw I took me 2 days just to build my first city because I had no manual!!! I had to learn the whole game from scratch - several weeks before I found out how to make entertainers or change government!!
Sid Meyer games are the coolest - I've played them all except Gettysburg!
Btw I took me 2 days just to build my first city because I had no manual!!! I had to learn the whole game from scratch - several weeks before I found out how to make entertainers or change government!!
Sid Meyer games are the coolest - I've played them all except Gettysburg!
Kenric af Grashen
King
!n 1999 my dad bought a new computer and he got a few games free with it, one was Civilization 2 Test Of Time because he was playing it so much and i couldn't get on the PC I bought regular civ 2 second hand for the playstation for £17.99 i then found out through searching on google that firaxis were making civ 3 i then found this sites shortly before i bought it and bought PTW December before last and got conquest this christmasi think i'll still be playing civ games untill Civilization XX
Mano3
King
Sounds like my story. How it fell into my hands, I totally forget. I played it off and on until CIV II came out. Woo Hoo!!!!
LordKestrel
King
Around 94, my computer lab teacher's son introduced me to the original civ, and then I picked up smac and civ3 once they came out. Never liked civ2 however.
Well, it was about 10 years ago that I was working as a volunteer on a university, and some of its students contacted me and started talking about Civilization I. Although it is a DOS game (and to the nowadays standards graphically a bit poor) it was already quite addicting. I spent hours and hours playing it.
There were stubborn rumours that Sid Meier wouldn't work on a future version of it (we all know that the rumours were wrong). Since then I made the following decision that is still valid: I will buy each game that has a relation with Civilization. It can either be a Microprose/Firaxis game: Civ, Civ II, Civ II: Test of Time, Civ III, Civ III: PTW, C3C, or an Activision game: Civ Call To Power and Call To Power II.
I like the whole Civilization concept in all these versions. Until a few days ago I didn't know of the existence of C3C, it is pure coincidental that I saw that game in the computer store.
There were stubborn rumours that Sid Meier wouldn't work on a future version of it (we all know that the rumours were wrong). Since then I made the following decision that is still valid: I will buy each game that has a relation with Civilization. It can either be a Microprose/Firaxis game: Civ, Civ II, Civ II: Test of Time, Civ III, Civ III: PTW, C3C, or an Activision game: Civ Call To Power and Call To Power II.
I like the whole Civilization concept in all these versions. Until a few days ago I didn't know of the existence of C3C, it is pure coincidental that I saw that game in the computer store.
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