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

[doc mabuse]

Spent days in a row playing it (record 56 hours in one go)

 

[Cataphract887]

i was at my dads house(dont live with him) and watched\played civ1 about 1997,when i was just ten,but a week later i forgot all about it when i played age of empires

he had civ2 laying around the house and i stole it though i only played civ3 for 20 turns before trashing it when it was first released,and ordered conquests just 2 months ago

civ3\PTW = crap

 

[Strontium_Dog]

Civ2, on the PS1, 1999.
I was introduced to it, by a mate. Played it for quite a while, but could never get a decent score.

I lost interest in games though, it was a mad impulse that sent me looking for something similar, a few weeks ago. Got the civ3 complete pack, played nearly every day since

 

[The Last Conformist]

I want you to vote the FIRST civ game you have ever played!

It's not my fault the question is ambiguous!

 

[Renata]

Completely forgot about that...yes, that was insane!

I had completely forgotten about the copy-protect questions.

Renata

 

[sausnebb]

Civ 2. Lent it from a friend and installed it, and since you didn't need the CD to play it I was sold...

 

[Plume]

Civ 1, back in late 1995. My girlfriend's father had that game, I tried it and got addicted. God, how much time have I lost to these games... Oh well, good memories anyway. Especially a period in the summer of 1997, after coming back from a trip and before starting my master's where I played civ2 every day, all day long... for two months. That was fantastic.

 

[MikeH]

Just guessing. I really don't know. But a lot of people I know who play civ3 have never played civ1 or civ2.

That's probably because more people play computer games these days. In their time Civ. and Civ2 were regarded as great games by people who played and reviewed games. IIRC, Civ2 received the highest score to date in the review in the UK version of PC Gamer and prior to that Civ. frequently placed in the first three of their 'Best Games of All Time' polls.

 

[Yuri2356]

Civ1 SNES via Emulator in 2000. Ah, those were good times indeed...
Played Civs 2&3 with a friend, but never actually bought them untill a few months ago.

 

[Yakodi]

The original Civilization in 1992.
Calling an Atari 1040 ST my own at tha time I even had the right computer for playing the game when I bought it. So I had to buy one because I didn't want to play at the office forever ...

 

[viper275]

I played Civ2 with a friend and decided to get it, but then I only saw Civ3 and got it instead. So technically I played Civ2 first, but can a single game count?

 

[SoWhat3]

It's not my fault the question is ambiguous!

OK! sorry im not trying to be mean here im just telling you the facts!

 

[SoWhat3]

I played Civ2 with a friend and decided to get it, but then I only saw Civ3 and got it instead. So technically I played Civ2 first, but can a single game count?

yep the first time you EVER played

 

[AA-battery]

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.

Actually, some relatives and friends of my father that I know that play civ3 are in their twenties and thirties. Only one or two of them play civ2. That is part of the reason that I play civ3 is because they recommended it to me.

 

[citizen001]

Civ3, although i heard about Civ2 first.

 

[SJ Frank]

Civ 1 first, then Free Civ (an open source Civ2 port to Linux, looks just like civ2, but the AI was horrible, IIRC), then played a borrowed copy of Civ2 for a couple of games, never really got into it. Civ3 was the only one in the series that I actually bought.

... and since the question was so ambiguous, my first Civ3 game was Egypt

 

[cpikey316_]

Civilisation on the Amiga! Glory days, who needs a battleship when you have a fortified Phalanx!

 

[Neomega]

Civilization's rivers flowed, and the waves crashed on the shore.

And when a nuke was dropped, a split second before the explosion, the
rivers and seas would flash... then boom!

All three have been spectacular.

 

[stachnie]

Are you sure it was hanging? Maybe it was just taking so long you thought it crashed.

Hmmm... it is possible. Just the screen was going blank and nothing seemed to happen. BTW, it was about 1992-93 (I bought my AT in 1994).


Best regards,

Slawomir Stachniewicz.

 

[fishpimp]

The original Civ nearly cost me my college education in 1994. Ten years later and I still can't kick the smack.