How old were you when you first played Civ?

[Tenochtitlan]

It was last year - so 18. When the actual game came out computers were extremley rare then. I think personal, home computers were forbidden or smthing like that (before the revolution) ...

Where do you live?

 

[Berrie]

I think I played Civ for the first time around 1992. I was 12 back then.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Where do you live?

Far away. Where do you live ?

Now that i think about it better, i think that only "everything western" was forbidden, and this, accidentaly included most comps manufactured & most good games made.
Someone with more knowledge on recent history might shed some light in this matter.

 

[BG_Zero]

I was 9 when i played civ1 on my "PRAVECH 16".Ahh what a great game it was.Its the firs turn-based strategy i ever played.

 

[trada]

What did you go on to play?

 

[Tiago]

It was my 12th birthday (1992) when I got a computer from my parents: a 386 DX, and some games. Civilization was one of them.
At first I found the game a little akward and proceed playing Monkey Island and Another World. Two games I loved imediately. Only when I got stuck on these two games I would give Civ another shot.
When I, by accident, discovered the triremes and a way out of the small islands I was stuck, I got hooked. It got fascinating.
My favourite game of all times. And the one I played the most.
Right after 17 years old I stoped playing games slowly.
Now I'm back for more Civilization.

 

[iamthejake2000]

I think I'm quite an outsider here... I just started maybe two weeks ago. I can't get enough. There's something about this game that keeps me hooked, I think it's all there is to keep track of, and just how deep the game pulls you in. I've always been into first-person shooters and the like, I never knew what I was missing. I've only ever tried MS-DOS Civ1 at this point, but I'd like to check out Civ4.

 

[Howitzah]

I was 10 or so.

My first Civ experience was Civ I on SNES.

Yeah, I know.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

i first played it, oh, i guess it was about 1997 or 98. that would make me about 11. its was civ I, and it was my uncle's. I didnt understand how to change govs, so if i got flight before the end of the game, it was a good game, but even then i only got like one or two planes in before 2050. I remember the first time i got flight, me and my friend were sooo ansy to get a plane and use it, because we always saw the AI's planes wandering about our territory. That game also started my long-upheld tradition of raping the French in every game i played that they were in. I also remember in civ I i always played as the Greeks, because they had the best text and the coolest music.

ahh, good times

 

[orange]

What a great thread!!

I'll never ever ever forget how/when I found Civ. My cousin had the game on his mom's laptop...an old IBM ThinkPad, and he brought it to family vacation one year when I was 11 (he's a few years older). This was back in 1995. Our family goes on a big vacation each year in June...we used to rent a house at the shore for 2 weeks...now far less people come and it's only a week...and I'm grown now so I don't even go the whole time...but he was playing this game and I watched him, and as soon as he was done I hopped on. It was love at first click. It was the WinCiv version (far far better than DOS, IMO) I had always loved geography and history, and I had already played a lot of SimCity (another one he introduced me to that I was hooked on for a while), so this game was natural for me. While he and my other cousins went out to the beach, I played that game. At the end of those two weeks, when I got home, I wanted to play Civ so bad. It was an entire year before I got to play again - at the shore - same scenario. I tried like mad to find it online once I got the internet, but never could. Eventually I ordered it from a British retailer, but they only had the DOS version I could never find the Windows version online until just the other day (no joke!). I STUMBLED across it while searching for something unrelated. I couldn't believe it! I nearly wept like a baby when I saw the opening montage and heard the music.

I've been sneaking in turns while at work - shhhh don't tell my boss

Civ 1 is probably the reason I got into history and geogrpahy and politics as much as I did, and definitely led to my current love of the game Diplomacy. I owe Sid Meier for countless hours of happiness

 

[pixiejmcc]

What a great thread!!

Yeah.

What's it doing hidden away in the Civ I forums?

My first Civ game was Call to Power 2. My uncle gave it to me. He showed me a little how it worked and said how great it was but that he didnt have the time to play it. I think I was 15.

Loved it.

Forgot about Civ (somehow), until Civ IV. Played some SP. Then noticed there was an MP option ( never played any online games before). Anyway I got hooked and I can often be seen in the gamespy lobby playing ladder games (myleague.com/civ4players)

But I kinda regret that I have completely lost interest single player civ IV.

 

[fret]

Aged 16, 1991, Commodore Amiga.

It took about 15 minutes to build the world map.

 

[trada]

Haha, I'm 16 now and I play it constantly

 

[nock371]

First played it back in 93 I think, when I was on the amiga. Got addicted real quickly... played it 8 hours a day for a while...

 

[ffifield]

I started playing in the winter of 1992 when I bought my first computer, which was a Packard Bell with a 486SX with a whopping 2MB of RAM. I bought it with the computer on the recommendation of the salesperson. It was one of the best recomendations I ever got. I was 34 at the time and still playing.

 

[Gundus]

I tried Civ1 for the first time back in 1995, during my
year in the navy. I didnt understand much then, but I
brought it back with me on disk, and gradually I started
understanding it more and more (like lightbulbs filling up
a civ tech research box).

Sometimes I grow tired of it, but so far I've always been
coming back, and there's very few games that can
keep your interest for ten years.

This forum is a mountain of gold in the information
department by the way.
Let's (M)ine it!

 

[ew0054]

I got the SNES version for my birthday in 1995 so I had just turned 11. Those were the days. Not a care in the world other than staring at the clock during school, waiting to go home and spend a few precious hours playing Super Nintendo!

 

[Nick Garai]

I was 19 when I first played it in 1992. Got hooked on it pretty fast.

 

[Tristan_C]

I agree, awesome thread, great stories! I guess I was 9 when I started playing Civ, right when it was released for DOS. I spread it around to all my friends. I talked with my Dad for hours about strategies and play styles. I built up my vocabulary by devouring the manual and all the strategic literature my Dad got ahold of. I'd get up at 4am to play it until school. I even met the lady that did the cover art (you know, the mummy resting underneath the city skyline?)

I never tried any Windows-based civ, not thinking much of the interface, but Civ4 seems to have made its way into my possession and I'm back into the action like old times!

 

[Millman]

The only one who doesn't remember. I was born in 82 so definately in my mid teens. I like Civ 2 better buy I've been not playing it as the turns begin to take too long.