What's the first civilization game you have ever played?

What's the first civilization game you have ever played?

  • Civilization 1

    Votes: 46 47.9%

  • Civilization 2

    Votes: 23 24.0%

  • Civilization 3

    Votes: 31 32.3%
  • Total voters
    96
  • Poll closed .
I started with Civ 2 when I was about halfway through my Ph.D., which would be ca. 1995. At the time I preferred SimCity 2000 and used to argue for hours with a friend that SimCity was better than Civ. I soon saw the error of my ways though.
FFWD>>
Ever since I got Civ 3 I'm a hopeless addict. Although I did try SimCity 4...urgh!
 
I guess a lot of people like me didn't know about the civilization games until civ3 because the previous civ games weren't as good compared to other games during the time unlike now when civ3 is one of the most talked about games today.
Click to expand...

:rotfl:

Civilization (the original one) was so far ahead of anything at that time you won't believe it. About the only other games worth to be played in the early 90ties were Adventures like "Day of the Tentacle" or "Indiana Jones", Panzergeneral, Warlord and of course the other Sid Meier games (never really got into RR Tycoon, but Colonization was great).
Civ2 in 1996 didn't shine out that much, though.

For me, "Civ1". 486SX, luckily.
 
AA-battery said:
I guess a lot of people like me didn't know about the civilization games until civ3 because the previous civ games weren't as good compared to other games during the time unlike now when civ3 is one of the most talked about games today.
Click to expand...

me niether! untill my friend kept talking about it and talking about every single day. He ended up buying it for me on my b-day!(a pretty good presant i'd say :bday: ) for 3 strait months(or more) civ3 gold was the only game i played :thumbsup: i was like this the whole time i played :drool: :wow: :spear: :evil:
 
The Last Conformist said:
I started with CivII back in '96. I eventually acquired CivI too, however, so I've played them all.

Just why is this multiple choice?
Click to expand...


I want you to vote the FIRST civ game you have ever played! :rolleyes:
 
I found the game in college around '91. I played it on a 286 with no hard drive. I had to use a boot disk and it took like 10 minutes to start the game. :crazyeye:
 
Civ 1 on an XT, ages ago. Took about half an hour to load up while I read that title screen ("In the beggining ...")
 
awww i remember the title screen... if only civ was windows-xp-able
 
AA-battery said:
Just guessing. I really don't know. But a lot of people I know who play civ3 have never played civ1 or civ2. :sad:
Click to expand...

Well yeah, I don't mean to sound ageist, but you're only fourteen and I would imagine most of your friends are approximately the same age. You were six when civ2 came out and it's not exactly aimed at that demographic.
 
stachnie said:
Have you managed to run it on XT? I tried it on my first PC (8086, 640 kB RAM, CGA) but it always hanged, I could run it only on 286 and up.


Best regards,

Slawomir Stachniewicz.
Click to expand...

Yep it ran. Same config as that too, except it was EGA or maybe even VGA. I don't recall now, so long ago. But it was about a half hour or more before it would load. The "In the Beginning" screen would go, and it would change to the other screens in the little title story, each change would take about 5 minutes and then on the last page it would freeze, displaying the last image for about 15-20 minutes, during which time it was still loading. And then it would start. Are you sure it was hanging? Maybe it was just taking so long you thought it crashed.
 
Technically, there was no Civ 1. It was just "Civilization". Those elegant DOS graphics!
Click to expand...

Just beeyootiful they were! I think I still have the disks I used for my save games floating around somewhere, although the game itself died from overuse a long time ago.

Civ 1 on an XT, ages ago. Took about half an hour to load up while I read that title screen ("In the beggining ...")
Click to expand...

I don't remember Civ 1 taking eons to load for me, although I may be blocking it out. Colonization, on the other hand ... (fire up the game, go to bathroom, go get coffee, come back and see if my ship has reached the far shore of the Atlantic yet, go pay a few bills, come back and check again, go wash the dishes .. oh, I can play now!)

Renata
 
Civ3 which was a gift to me for my birthday, and then I bought the expansions also. I also bought(through a magazine offer) Civ2 and expansions after I had played Civ3.
 
Colonization, on the other hand ... (fire up the game, go to bathroom, go get coffee, come back and see if my ship has reached the far shore of the Atlantic yet, go pay a few bills, come back and check again, go wash the dishes .. oh, I can play now!
Click to expand...

Completely forgot about that...yes, that was insane!
 
I remember being about 8 or 9 years old when my stepdad brought home a game with a city pic above a buried statue. Now at the time we were hooked on simcity so this was a new lease of life altogether.

Now I'm still hooked.

Sid Meier is a genius
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

B
Can you help with my questions, please?
Replies
4
Views
778
tjs282
tjs282
K
Are you a....
Replies
6
Views
885
kaskavel
K
K
Upgrade to 1.29f FAILED
Replies
7
Views
530
Aloysius 02
A
K
Alternative campaign-the Mongols
2 3
Replies
52
Views
3K
kaskavel
K
K
Alternative campaign-The Russians
Replies
8
Views
882
kaskavel
K
Back
Top Bottom