What was your first game like?

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Just for fun, I did an Earth map on Settler level, as rome, which reminded me of my tutorial game.

For every one that play on harder levels, what was your first game of civ like?
(not just civ iv, but 1st game ever)
 
Civ I, played in a computer lab at Pepperdine University in Malibu.
No docs, so I just wandered the map with my Settler exploring until it was killed.
Kept at it, until I bought the game and read the manual.
 
I was over at my friend's house when I was a kid, and he had a modded version of Civilization 1 so you could play it hotseat.

Didn't know what I was doing so my cities had poor irrigation and such, so I built lots of crappy quality cities and was pretty successful with this strategy. I built a spaceship and launched it. That's when my friend nuked my capital city, conquered it, my empire split in two and my spaceship was recalled.

Now that I think of it, I have no idea how we managed to finish an entire Civilization session in only one night. I guess we just didn't care about micromanaging back then.
 
I was really young with Civ 1, was in like a corner (if i remember correctly) and make a diaginal line of knights to protect by city and fortified them! Woot I was well hard :P
 
I don't specifically remember my first Civ II game (would have been some time between my first and third years) but I had someone to show me how it worked so I avoided anything like Supr49r's games. I got quite good but I cheated a lot; now I get so absorbed in the game it just doesn't occur to me to cheat at all, and in Civ III I don't know the codes :).

I think I always played the Russians (long-standing interest in Eastern Europe and I speak fluent Polish; Michael is a Russian-speaker so he is teaching me russkiy yazyk at last), now I hardly ever do. At the moment I seem to play some kind of ancient/classical civ as that is the most authentic civ experience.
 
Ah I remember my first time was with Civ III on a Mac iBook...
Just like now I could never get past the midgame, since I had a thing for rerolling alot.
 
In Civ 3, I remember getting swamped until I finally had a good run the day before I got Civ 4.
 
My first game was on the tutorial on the original civ 4. Almost immediatly after it finished the tutorial and let me play on my own i attacked Gandhi and won a domination victory around 1800.
 
Way back in the dark ages, I spent an entire night at a friends house playing this utterly facinating game Civilization. It was like nothing else. And, to send me home he lent me 4 3.5 inch discs so I could play at home on my 486DX. Nothing has been the same since.
 
I remember I played as the Americans and had no idea what the hell I was doing. I was trying to fit in as many cities as possible for every 2 tiles, and I went to war with Mongolia and lost Boston, won it back, and spent like 500 years trying to stop it from revolting.

I think I won a Time victory, settler level. :D
 
I don't remember specifically my first civ game, or even if it was on Civ I or II. I just remember a lot of different games on the first two levels of difficulty. I remember one game where I only made 3 cities the whole game. I think the AI (probably the Russians, I remember those SoBs always giving me trouble) covered the whole map in cities and conquered everyone else then won the space race. But hell, I was like, 7 at the time, that was a long time ago.

Now, my first Civ IV game, I played a quick/small warlord difficulty great plains map. No aluminum on the entire map. God that sucked. You need aluminum for just about all the modern stuff.I finally won a space race and took 2 of the other civs out, but Gilgamesh gave me some trouble after Tokugawa ran to him for protection after I steamrolled the other civs.
 
Welll, it looks that I'm the only one with a traumatic experience in entering Civ world ;)

I started played strat games with AOE and SMAC. I think that most of you can imagine the bitter disapointement a person can have passing from SMAC to Civ III... no unit workshop? No terraforming? No heights? No deformable terrain ? :suicide: :lol:

Anyway it looks like I survided to it ( but still miss the terraforming :( )
 
i do remember my first game of civ1 on the super nintendo :D i had just build a nice road from my first city to my second city which was nearly on the other side of my island which i was alone at (didnt read ther manual) so i thought it was a builder game with barbs :D, then suddenyl an AI shows up and attacks me with tanks vs my spears.... it wasnt pretty. i did get instant addicted :D
 
I think it was Chieftain level. I was very confused by all the techs, units, concepts, and most of the time I just clicked the next best thing. I still won, imho it's impossible to lose on that level even if you try.
 
My first game was on a CP/M, it must have been around 1976, I think it was an iteration of "adventure", text-based. still one of the best games I have played.
 
civ 1

most likely to have lost that game but gained an addiction :)
 
My first game was on a CP/M, it must have been around 1976, I think it was an iteration of "adventure", text-based. still one of the best games I have played.

My first ever game experience was in the very early 80's playing Defender at the local bowling alley while my mom was bowling. I remember not being tall enough to reach the joystick and having to stand on a chair. Some nice lady (I have no idea if she was a friend of my mom's or just some anonymous stranger) gave me a few dollars in quarters too. It was pretty sweet.
 
Civ III... I can't remember it much. I was unlucky, getting one of the worst games in the Civ franchise... but I still loved it (I played peacefully on Settler, and didn't run into too many bugs, nor did I experiance the full brunt of corruption)

I remember my first game of Civ IV vividly, however. I don't remember the civ (or much of the actual game :P), but I remember finishing the install, and opening it, and hearing Baba Yetu. Our speakers were destroyed (previously), and as a result, I was wearing headphones, and was the only person to hear that beautiful music. Everyone else was annoyed that I wasn't doing anything for near 5 minutes until the song ended :P
 
Started with Civ IV Warlords and tried Rameses on Settler level knowing next to nothing about Civ. I built 3 cities in total and refused alot of trades but somehow I made it to about 1700s when I'd just about developed Musketmen when Roosevelt attacks me with Planes, Gunships, Tanks, Artillery and Navy Seals. Needless to say I was massacred.

My game has improved somewhat since then.
 
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