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.