When Civilization came out I was about 10 years old. The thing is, it wasn't until 1993 when I was 12 when I first started to play it.
I did play computer games on the MSX and Nintendo. On the PC I started with games like Wolfenstein3D (one of the earlier shoot 'em ups), Dangerous Dave and a game based on the EURO 1992 football championships.
Yes, I was mowing down Nazis at the age of 11. I grew up all right.
The thing with games in the 90s is you had to press a number to select which kind of video and sound graphics you wanted. Like EGA, CGA and VGA.
I don't remember why or how, whether it was because I didn't know better or that my computer at the time wasn't better, but I always selected EGA for Civilization.
The colors where cartoonish. The fortified units look like post stamps.
Then I played the game on another machine and switched to VGA graphics like this:
View attachment CivVGA1.bmp
Kaboom baby.
What you don't see on these images is that the shore line is moving, also the water of an aqueduct moves... I was mind blown. My cartoon game had come alive. At the time, the map really looked like a map. It looked "natural". Rivers were flowing!
Now I have an XBOX360, but I don't play shoot 'em ups because I find the controls too clunky and find the games to restrictive - as if you're pressing x in a movie. Over 20 years of time, the gameplay of games has gone backwards.
And, as you know, I still play civilization1.
The funny thing a few days ago, was that I selected EGA for graphics, some 20 years after I last did. My mind was blown away a second time. In reverse. Because of the new graphics, I remember the game like VGA as above - I had not remembered the CGA graphics. But my mind did. For 20 years, my mind had remembered this:
I did play computer games on the MSX and Nintendo. On the PC I started with games like Wolfenstein3D (one of the earlier shoot 'em ups), Dangerous Dave and a game based on the EURO 1992 football championships.
Yes, I was mowing down Nazis at the age of 11. I grew up all right.
The thing with games in the 90s is you had to press a number to select which kind of video and sound graphics you wanted. Like EGA, CGA and VGA.
I don't remember why or how, whether it was because I didn't know better or that my computer at the time wasn't better, but I always selected EGA for Civilization.
The colors where cartoonish. The fortified units look like post stamps.
Then I played the game on another machine and switched to VGA graphics like this:
View attachment CivVGA1.bmp
Kaboom baby.
What you don't see on these images is that the shore line is moving, also the water of an aqueduct moves... I was mind blown. My cartoon game had come alive. At the time, the map really looked like a map. It looked "natural". Rivers were flowing!
Now I have an XBOX360, but I don't play shoot 'em ups because I find the controls too clunky and find the games to restrictive - as if you're pressing x in a movie. Over 20 years of time, the gameplay of games has gone backwards.
And, as you know, I still play civilization1.
The funny thing a few days ago, was that I selected EGA for graphics, some 20 years after I last did. My mind was blown away a second time. In reverse. Because of the new graphics, I remember the game like VGA as above - I had not remembered the CGA graphics. But my mind did. For 20 years, my mind had remembered this:
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