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

[mutax2003]

I found this interesting thread on the Civ 1 forum:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=151124

So I thought to repost it here so it can gain a broader audience. The question, how old were you when you first played civ? As for me, it was back in 92' when I was in 8th grade (junior high). My friend gave me copies of Civ 1, simcity, and X-wings, I installed all the games, but was hooked on Civ 1 right away. I remember sitting in class, checking my watch, and thinking about how I am going to shoot those pesky Mongolian horsemen with my shiny new tanks after school. Another benefit of Civ is that it forced me to learn to use computer, from editing all those sound and loadup settings in Autoexec and config. Before that, I was afraid to copy files to another folder under DOS since I didn't want to mess up the computer.

 

[puglover]

I started at 9. I was at the house of an older friend when he showed it to me on his Mac. Bought Civ2 for Windows a few days later. Been hooked ever since.

I've played the Civ series for five years now.

 

[Gen.Rommel]

I started when i was 10, so its been a good 8 years now. Started off with CivII the gold edition one. Man i used to cheat so bad with it lol!

 

[Willowmound]

I must have been 13. Civ 1 in 1991. I actually skipped school a couple of times just to play. I later found out that I wasn't the only one!

 

[mutax2003]

I don't remember skipping school for civ 1, but I was glad a couple when the school was cancelled due to snow storm, guess what I was doing for those days. Of course, it didn't work out as well when we had a blackout along with the storm.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

I started playing the Civ-series when I was 6...

 

[Lockesdonkey]

I started with SMAC in 1999, when I was 10; I never really played; my dad and my uncle did that and I "helped".

I got Civ III in 2001.

 

[Howitzah]

My first Civ experience was Civ1 for the SNES back when I was 10 or so.

Yes, I know the SNES version was terrible, but back when I got it I thought it was the greatest thing going. I begged my parents to buy a PC JUST so I could play Civ2, which I loved even more.

 

[GRickper]

Then theres the other extreme. I saw my first Civ game Christmas 2005 when a couple of my coworkers were board at work and started playing a LAN game on their Laptops. I Lerked over their sholders for a week or so. It took another 6 months to get a chanc to play when my Son-in-Law and his friends started playing last summer. i set in for one game and was killed in no time. I got hooked and my Daughter bought me a copy for FathersDay. I have been playing ever sence. By the way I am in my 6th decade and a first time player.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I started in April 2003, when I was 15

 

[JonnyB]

I first played Civ 1 on an Amiga500, back when I was about 16.

 

[Rod]

Hello,

I was eleven and it was on a friends computer. He just got this new game and we played together. I was at him quite often then. I just remember that we found a city somewhere in the extreme upper north (all ice around) just to see what happens. (in those days there was no maintenance )
At the end we crushed the Russians, they were the last civilization left and the toughest.. those were the days
.. When I was 12 got my first own PC .. the first game was civilization.

I could play from morning until night with just short breaks .. oh god Civ ruined my whole life, because I can still play from 8 am till 4 am with only short breaks and without any food.. if i find the time nowadays...

 

[nickont]

It was 1993 and i was doing my military service and a fellow soldier installed civ 1. That was it ! I remember we were playing 8-10 hours every night.

I was 24

 

[mjs0]

Who...me
What Version...The Original - Civ I
Which platform...Amiga 500
When...Early 90s
How Old...Mid 20s
Where...my parent's basement (ok, just kidding...it was my room )
Why...silly question

 

[Jorunkun]

I played Civ1 on the day it came out, having pre-ordered a copy after reading about it in a now defunct british gaming mag called "ACE". Funny, but I knew even looking at the pre-release screenshots that this would be a game I would love. I'm now 36 and I have been playing civ more or less constantly for the past 15 (16?) years ... incredible, if you think about it. It's pretty much the only PC/video game I play.

 

[cymru_man]

I must've been about 9 I guess, Civ2 =)

 

[spiralx]

14 I think, Civ I on my Atari ST - even got a memory upgrade to 1 whopping 1Mb just to play it!

 

[Lord N.]

I was 18, I played Civ 1 on my good old Amiga 500. Those were the days...

 

[Reg Pither]

Civ I on the PC when it came out (91?) so I would have been about 28 I reckon.

Good to see lots of you young'uns appreciate a good game!

 

[Ray Patterson]

Civ I was the first computer game that got me seriously hooked. I was 13 and often played the entire weekend.

It's intriguing how long it took me to figure out the most basic concepts. I thought I could choose between buying a building or a treasure ! (instead the screen informed me there was not enough money in my treasure to buy the building). And it took me months to figure out that the orders I gave would be carried out by the blinking unit.
When civ II came out I knew the basics, but I never figured out good strategy by myself. When I learned that a schoolmate played emperor I was flabbergasted. How was that even possible? It turned out he built multiple settlers in every city! I usually built 3 or 4 cities during an entire game, I didn't feel I needed more. In fact, I didn't feel building cities was that useful at all, better build units to capture cities!