Youngest Civer?

[Desertsnow]

if i used to play civ 1 at 18 y. old, and played on my commodore 64 at 8, how old am I?

Almost as old as I am?

 

[Figaro]

I was probably about 10 or something when I first played Civ2.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Civ 2 at age 8 or 9.

 

[AA-battery]

Speaking of young civers we have a birthday at age 6 today.

 

[Corkmaster]

The question should be, what is the youngest possible age that someone could fully understand how to play the game?

It must be at least 59 because I am 58.

 

[Mathilda]

My older one insisted that he wanted a go at the age of six.
I relented, and let him play one. He actually won pretty fast.
Obviously it took quite a lot of supervision since he couldn't actually read.
I think that's a minimum requirement for playing the game independently, being able to read.

 

[Prismhead]

I played Civ1 when it came out in 1991. I was 22-23 years old.....sigh....

 

[Sikoanalisis]

I started playing Civ DOS either the year it was released or the year after, which would have been 1991 or 92. It came in a software bundle with a flight/fight simulator game called "Mantis." I first beat the game soundly after about a week of trial and error. After about two months of slogging it out and beating the pathetic AI a number of ways, I developed the mass-chariot strategy. How ridiculously unbalanced was that?

Anyway, so I was 6 or 7.

By the way, this probably needs a new thread, but did anyone else encounter a bug in CivDOS that wrought havoc upon their game? I distinctly remember being the Zulu civilization and having a city of population size 7, doing about 1000 production per turn. The south pole of the map was covered by random mines and roads...I recall being 8 and thinking that Aliens had invaded my planet.

Enough woolgathering. Back to Civ 3.

 

[Desertsnow]

I played Civ1 when it came out in 1991. I was 22-23 years old.....sigh....

That's younger than I was when I started playing Civ1 *sigh*
I feel ancient *wah*

 

[Blackbird_SR-71]

I started playing Civ when i was 11 and then turned 12 one month later and here i am playing civ for almost a year and about to turn 13 this month