How did you get started playing Civilization?

[warpstorm]

Originally posted by fret
On the Commodore Amiga. It came on 4 floppies and when you started a new game it took about 20 minutes to 'build' the map/world.

I remember this well.

 

[sabo]

I needed a game to play on the first pentium I ever bought, lucky for me I picked Civ

 

[hbdragon88]

I found an ad in a magazine that had $10 off of the $50 price on Civilization 3 (US). So I was asking for it and stuff, saying that it'd only cost $40. My sister bought it for me for my middle school promotion present. Nice. And that was 6 months ago

 

[Silverflame]

Originally posted by ssmith619
He gave you CivII (or III?) for getting a 4.0 GPA. Okay, wait, wait, I know what comes next! You spend all night/day playing, your grades drop tremendously, and now you're on the streets whoring yourself so that you can buy time at an Internet cafe and play? I just knew it. ;-)

Too bad it isnt true. Im lucky to play an hour of civ3 a day. I spend more time here at CFC.

 

[Oakes]

This is a fun thread. I actually have an excuse to pull out the old Civ 1 box. My box has the "This Year's Biggest SPA Award Winner!" "Winner of 3 Awards from Software Publishers Association" the year is 1991. System Requirements:

640k Required
Supports EGA, VGA/MCGA and Tandy Graphics
Mouse Recommended
Supports IBM, Roland, Ad Lib, Sound Blaster and Tandy Sound

640k!?!?!?!?! How is my IBM Ps/1 going to handle that???? lol.. how far we've come... my calculator has more memory than that... so does my cell phone for that matter!!! lol

 

[WillJ]

My Civ fascination started when I went to one of my friend's house, and he had Civ2, and I quickly became interested in it. A few days later I bought it for myself, and I can still fairly clearly remember the day when I first brought home Civ2. Ah, those were the days... And then I got Civ3 after I saw it at that same friend's house, sometime in November or December 2001, I think.

 

[Knightblade pDM]

I bought Civ 3 in Feb of 2001 while just browsing through the local Gamestop. I was debating between that and the AoE 2: Gold Edition, and bought Civ 3(bought AoE the following week).

One of my main things when buying games is looking for a Random Map Generatior, and both games had that. AoE was more like Middle Ages Arthurian Legend stuff, which I love. And Civ had some of the best leaders from the world's best civs. I played it that first night for 7 hrs on Chieftain. Even though I lost all three games as the US. I was hooked The rest is history

 

[Arvedui]

In the beginning of the 90's my dad showed me an article about an original game that simulated history. One or two months later I got my copy of Civ1. The first civilization I ever played was the Aztecs and I still remember the first trirreme I built. I have been playing all versions of the game ever since.

 

[Dark Sheer]

As for me it go way back to 1983 when I owned an Apple II+ and one of the game I bought was Sid Meyer's F-15 Strike Eagle (No fancy graphics, pure wire frame...it was only a 64k Machine! ) and love Sid's work from that day onwards. Never missed any of Sid's & later Microprose's games such as Sword of Samurai, Priates, Strike Eagle II, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Silent Service, M1 Tank Platoon, etc etc. So naturally when I went to a computer fair in 1991 and found Civ1 on the shelf I just grab it.

The rest like they say...is history.

 

[voodoocat]

The game came out in 1991 and I asked for a computer game for our 286. I didn't know what type of game I wanted. I just asked for a game for my birthday. My parents talked to the guy at Egghead software (which is no longer there) and he recommended Civilization. They weren't sure whether or not I would want the game so on my birthday they brought me to the store to sample the game. It's been a stronger addiction than heroin ever since. I just turned 12 and my friends and I discovered all-nighters of computer gaming.

I remember it now 1 - 2 - 1 to start a game of civ. (we had no soundcard)

 

[kring]

I started with the original Civilization Board Game by Avalon Hill many, many years ago. When I got a computer last year, I saw Civ 2 at Target for $10 and purchased it.

 

[ajkcdad]

My brother in law had civ 1 on his computer, but no manual. Took me weeks to figure out what the game was. Got my own computer a couple of years later, first game bought was civ2. Now totally addicted to reading these posts at work and then playing civ3 at home until 2,3,4 in the morning.....sleep would be nice but it's so addictivvvvvvvvvzzzzzzzzzzz............

 

[Physicist]

Must have been in 1991 or 1992. A friend introduced me to a game called Civ1. I bought a copy, played my first game (Aztecs, all setting standard), and immediately got addicted (although it took me ages to find that last AI city at the south pole ). Later I played Colonization and Civ2, then lost interest in computer games for some years.

When I bought Civ 2, I though this would be the last computer game of my life.

About 1 1/2 years ago, by chance I searched for Civ in the web and learned that Civ3 would be released in some month. Guess what happened: I bought the game (along with a new computer to fulfill the system requirements ) and now I am more addicted than ever.

I LOVE THIS GAME !
(... and the great community here Makes me enjoy the game even more.)

 

[Civddict]

Year was 1995 and I was freshman on college. I looked for games on lab computers and I noticed one of them had game with civ falder, and civ.exe. I instantly got cived. I was spending aobut 6 hours everyday playing civ. On that time, I dodn't have my computer. so soon lab was closed and I couldn't play it for years

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Started out with Civ1 after I got my first computer in early 95. Didn't like it really. Then Civ2 came out and I was hooked. I was like playing day-long deity games fr morning till night (uni student ).

Immediately got Civ3 and PTW the days they're out.

 

[CenturionV]

i got civ2 classic from a friend who gave me a whole bunch of games i played a few games of it but the grafix were old and i only liked it for a bit, then civ3 came out and i got it right away and i played it off and on for quite a while (between bouts of counterstrike, ghostrecon and age of empires) within the last few months i've played it more and more and as my better comp broke down its the only decent game i have and can play ont hsi old one

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[crashu3]

I first played civilization in 1990. My mom and dad got a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack and civilization was there and I remember seeing it on the shelf and asking for it, so they got it and that was it. Afterwards I went home and installed it I've never stopped.

 

[Padma]

I started way before the Civ series. I first played "Hammurabi" on a mainframe in college in the '70s. It was a precursor to both civilization-building-games and SimCity.

When I finally gave in to the pressure from Redmond and bought a Windows computer in the mid-'90s, I saw a game called Civ-2. I thought, "hmm, looks like they have updated old 'Hammy'. Maybe I'll give it a look."

The rest, as they say, is history.

 

[Civanator]

I first got hooked when I saw a couple screenshots of Civ2 back in march 2001, and then got involved in the Civ2 Democracy Game here at civfanatics. I then heard of a Civilization 3 and learned everything i could about it, just like i had with Civ2. Then at christmas time i got civ3 and never stopped playing it, until the ribbon cable in my com came loose and my dad couldn't find anything worng.