How did you get started playing Civilization?

[Johan Lackland]

I got civ1 from two of my friends (who were twins) in 1994 or something like that. We were about 10 years back then. In the beginning my friends always told me what to do in the game when we sat in front of my dad's computer and I played civ. Eventually, when they discovered that I had built a large empire with several cities at size 30+, they stopped telling me how to play the game. None of them had the patience to play that long. When I bought my own computer in 1998, I installed civ2 and enjoyed that too. I bought civ3 the day I got to know it was in the store, and now I am attempting Deity level.

I have also played several others of Sid Meier's games, including Railroad Tycoon, Colonization, Pirates! Gold and SMAC. I got tired of SMAC for a while when I finished a game where I got a rating of 1017%, since playng just one turn took ages. (I never automate formers or use governors.)

Looks like I got slightly off topic here.. Oh well.

 

[Pots]

Even "Pirates!"? LOL. I enjoyed that one for quite a while. How about Zork? I actually took my wife out to dinner to celebrate solving the "Bell, Book, and Candle" puzzle. That was the day she realized she'd married a lunatic.

Yes to Pirates, I enjoyed that one quite awhile also as well as the text based series from the zany guys at Infocom. I'm not sure I made it that far in Zork, but I banged my head quite a few times trying to figure out the puzzles in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The only one from the series my wife wouldn't put up with was . . . bah, I forget the name - semi-sexual in nature - space vamps from ... ?

How about AH games? I think the first one I came across was Tac II. Me and buddy played for days on end in the 70's until we tried our hand at some of the more detailed ones. We'd get half way into a good game when one of my brothers would wipe out the game so he could play pool (our 'battlefield table').

At any rate, sounds like we're from the same era. cheers

 

[SanPellegrino]

It was 1992 when I got my 386 SX with 4 MB Ram, 60 MB HD, wow! I still remember my first game of Civ 1, it was accidentally an OCC, because I couldn't figure out how to move units

Too bad I didn't learn from that, I still don't like reading handbooks

 

[Mad Hab]

A friend of mine bought a 386 with a VGA monitor and showed me a couple of games. When I saw this game where you could pick a civ, found cities and build armies I was so hooked I went to sleep by 5 AM, long alfter him. Later I found a way to buy myself a computer (is was very hard to gather the money), only to play civ anytime I wanted...

Cheers,

Mad Hab

 

[DANGERBOY]

Fall of 1990, my father bought what started out as a Hewlett-Packard 4MB RAM 20MB storage 386. (It finally died in spring 2000, after having all but one screw replaced at least twice; I called it Frankenstein's computer). The next summer, a friend of mine loaded a copy of Civ (the DOS version) on it (also a copy of Dune 2, both of which I got totally hooked on and bought my own copy). Hooked at once, got Colonization, CivWin, CivNet, CivII, CivII Gold, SMAC, and finally Civ3 for X-mas the years they came out. I FULLY EXPECT to get PTW and the Board Game for X-mas this year.

I played a game of Colonization this fall, it's fun to go back and play the oldies every once in a while.

 

[wilbill]

Originally posted by Pots


How about AH games? I think the first one I came across was Tac II. Me and buddy played for days on end in the 70's until we tried our hand at some of the more detailed ones. We'd get half way into a good game when one of my brothers would wipe out the game so he could play pool (our 'battlefield table').

At any rate, sounds like we're from the same era. cheers

I played a lot of AH (and other) board games through the '70s and '80s. A friend of mine bought a couple of the "mega" games - one was the entire WWII Russian front with division-size units - the other a regimental level Gettysburg game. They were so big they had to be set up on a ping-pong table. I pretty much drew the line there, since I couldn't see playing a WWII game that would take longer to play than the war took to fight, LOL.