Repost: How Old Were You When You First Played Civ?

[AgedOne]

I'm a latecomer to CIV, both in the sense that it was 1997 and Civ1 had already been out 6 years and was about to be updated later that year, and also because I was 40 - and that's a strange age to enter the Civ world.
I can still remember the hairs rising on the back of my neck when, late into the night, I planned a strike against the Aztec capital before their spaceship landed!

 

[Naismith]

I got Civ III almost 2 years ago for my 47th birthday.

 

[ThomasHardy]

I was 35 when I bought civ3 in 2001.

 

[ratrangerm]

I first discovered the game in 1992 when a friend of mine introduced me to it. I was 21 at the time.

Haven't missed a Civ series since then. When I bought my first computer, Civ II came soon after that and I bought it and was a happy camper.

 

[Dunedein]

In 2001... Civ 3... I was ten. That would make me pretty young right now.

Ah... good times... good times...

 

[454ss]

Kudos to, ThomasHardy, AgedOne, Spider1, Furiey and Warpstorm. I was 42, the year was 1991, optimized assembly language device drivers was my profession. I needed a diversion.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

I discovered Civ I in 1992, when I was 44 years old. I was hooked at once and have played all Civ versions (and Colonization, and SMAC). I'm glad to see I'm not the only old duffer here.

But this oldster wants more building, trading and diplomacy goodies! Not that I'm averse to taking out Isabella or Monty early in the game. Or Louis XIV, whom I have started to dislike as a two-faced bastard (though it is fun to play as him). And fighting a medieval/early modern war against an aggressor when you are prepared for it has its bright moments, I'll concede that.

 

[FoolontheHill]

In 1991, when I was 26. Feel free to do the math....

Played everything since but colonization, couldn't get into that one for some reason. Never played any of them as much as I have Civ 4.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

15, 1991. My record for playing straight was 15~hours.. and i did not broke that until civ4 (24~h). Good times.

 

[PZOT]

I Started the Civilization experience in 1991 with CIV I . . .

It was addicting as was CIV II, CIV III, and CIV IV.

The flexibility in game variations is excellent - each game has its individual flavor.

I have 18 grandchildren, and hope to get them addicted, as well - although they seem to like the first person "shoot-em-up" games better. Oh, well, there is room for variety, I suppose.

 

[mutax2003]

Whoa, 24 hour of civ. My record is something like playing 15 hours, sleep for 6 hours, gets up, and played another 15 hours (without breakfast or lunch).

 

[BirraImperial]

It was back in 1992, I was 10 or 11 years old. Civ I was the reason I started playing Computer games.

 

[nameless_one]

I started playing Civ III in high school. Late to the game and nothing special here.

 

[scu98rkr]

Im another one who first played civ4 on my Amiga. It was an Amiga 600, I think I may even have had the 2mb upgrade by that point. Must of been 92-93 sometime.

I still remember one of my first games where the Chinese empire was huge and I had to somehow nuke their capital then take it which caused a revolution and it was easy from there.

 

[Berrie]

I played Civ 1 for the first time when I was 11 or 12 years old. So that must have been 1991 or 1992. It was on a then brandnew 386 PC

 

[Pe Ell]

Hmm, I must have been 12-13 when I sat down with CivI for the first time. I could hardly beat cheaftain but I was hooked anyway.

 

[Kuningas]

11 years old in year 1992 I started to play Civ1 in Amiga 500. I remember how I played +12 hours sessions after school only to face my civ to be nuked by Mongols

 

[Kong99]

I was really feeling old earlier in the thread!!

I played Civ I on a Mac, I think in '92, so I would have been 24 then. Did not play Civ III.

 

[Jamesds]

I'm 17 now, and first played CivNet (Civ I for Windows) when it came as a package with a new Packard Bell computer. 133MHz, 1.6Gb hd, etc. Once I found it I really enjoyed it (even though I was rather rubbush, and on Chieftain...). Got CivII a year or so later when I realised it was out.

Must have been 9 years old, and that was 1998.

 

[WoolyWoolwine83]

I first played Civ II back when I was 6 (back in '97...go figure). I would get up before school just to play civ for a couple minutes!