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Mr. Oobir
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Michigan, USA
Apr 2001
time: 00:13
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Has anyone here ever played the SNES version of Civilization? That's the version of the game that absorbed a lot of my 4th- and 5th-grade life. I can still hum the game's "Ancient" theme and baroque-ish tech discovery music...
I didn't play the game on any level other than chieftain, even when I could beat the game blindfolded and sitting on my head (I felt so proud when I conquered the world with the Japanese in 2880 BC!). Even on that most brain-dead of difficulties, I remember a rather odd case of AI superiority. Again, I was playing as the Japanese, and the rate of technology discovery was chugging along quite nicely. I had only six cities or so a bit after the BC times ended, and I'd only defeated one small civ near the beginning of the game, but I was doing all right. I was sailing out a boat (maybe a frigate) when I came upon a French ironclad. I had never seen this ship before, so I attacked it. My boat was destroyed. It didn't make sense; I was supposed to be the dominant player. A little while later, the French invaded. They had riflemen and tanks. Tanks! And Napolean wouldn't negotiate with me, so I had to try and defend my handful of cities with my slow and distant cannons. My musketeers were slaughtered, and my civ was near collapse, until I made a sudden shift of tactics.
I hit the SNES's power switch. Whew! Crisis averted 
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Ecthy
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:13
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Sounds familiar. Even on easiest level, there can be a quite successful AI civ.
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khyron
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The West Coast of the East Coast of North America
May 2002
time: 05:13
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Civilization. First time I played it, I was at a friend's house back in...the day. Can't remember when, but back when the game was new. He had a computer, and some cool games. Showed me Civ. I only played it a couple times, and I never did get it, but it fascinated me, and I would play it at other friends' houses over the subsequent years.
Forward to 1996. As a graduation present, my uncle gave me an old 386 with a grand total of 2MB of RAM. Wasn't much, but when you go from nothing to that, you're amazed, even by Windows 3.1. That first night, my best friend and I tried to get AOL installed, because it had a 9600 baud modem, but AOL needed 4MB. Then we had an idea. Somebody had given me a copy of Civ against the day that I would get my own computer. Out it came. We played for hours, first with me at the helm. I can't remember who we were, but we had the Russians on the continent to the south. At 2am, I had to nap, and my friend took the conn. He started a war with Russia and was rather successful at it. And at 3am, he woke me up to let me know we had a carrier loaded with nukes and a transport full of armor off the coast of Moscow. In violation of treaty, we pounded four Russian cities with nukes. I told him to land troops in Moscow to split them up. It worked! Egypt was born! So we moved on to the next nuked Russian city, and wham! Another schism! The whole face of that game changed from there, with Mother Russia who once threatened us so badly put in her place for all eternity, and we had a blast till we both died at dawn.
Nostalgia.... 
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simonaiken
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Join us or die.
Jul 2002
time: 05:13
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My top 10 memories of playing Civilization:
(10) The first time I played was at school, supposedly as an educational exercise as part of History lessons, (we had also played Simcity as part of Social Studies... I suspect this is what the teachers thought was multimedia learning) we weren't allowed to read the manual before hand.
I built I nice little civilization of one city that produced more and more militia, until it was crushed by the Zulus with their tanks. It had been an isolated little civilization on a little island.
(9) Not long after this I got Civilization at home. The first time I liberated my peoples from the yoke of a foriegn invader and evicted them from my little island was fun.
(8) My first game at Prince level with an industrial age war with the Mongols, who just always seemed to hate me, no matter what I did.
(7) The first and only time I discovered a civilization (The Chinese) who asked me to protect them from the Mongols (again), and in return they'd be brothers.
(6) Figuring how to use the Tax and Luxtury settings at King level to keep cities productive and also just off a revolt.
(5) Catching up to the French in an advance race, them declearing war on me in the middle of our space race, and then using nuclear weapons and an amphibous assult to seize their 9 cities in four turns.
(4) The first patch that correct the error that would occur in the first edition when you looked at your score while playing the game (it would create a landmass at the top of the map that would eventually screw up the map.
(3) First time I used the EARTH option at the start and played long enough that it actually was Earth, before that I'd also created new maps.
(2) The patch that allowed you to change the names of your cities. New Cario, New London, New Paris.
(1) A nuclear exchange with the Zulus, which I started to save my civilization from their continued invasions.
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War4ever
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I live amongst the Red Sox Nation
Jan 1970
time: 21:13
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Found it on a girlfriends computer, needless to say, at first i stunk, then i got better, actually it didn't take too long.
i lost sleep, eventually my girlfriend, and wasted many hours of my life.
civ2 mp has provided more hours of play than civ1..but civ1 is the game that set it up , and civ2 SP never compared in the same way,
civ3 doens't compare to the first two and i never did play civ1 mp or civnet as it was called
but i would say that civ1&2 were severe drugs in my life
Last edited by War4ever on 04-12-2002 at 10:27
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xxjiggawhoxx
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Dallas, Tx
Dec 2002
time: 23:13
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I started out playing Civ 2 on the playstation. I mastered that within about a month or so, and I was only 12 at the time! Two years later I got a computer at around November or so and I surfed warez and abandoned ware sites for Civ 2, but to my surprise they only had Civ 1. So I downloaded and started playing and man was it addictive. I seemed to have a harder time with it than I did with Civ 2, but soon I figuered out how things worked and all.
My favorite part about it was just murdering everyone in the ancient age with all my legions. Hahaha! The only draw back I could find was the limitations on diplomatic negotiations... But the game was awesome... The best game I can remember playing was where I was the Greeks on this Japan-style island in the very center of the world, I conquered the other country on this island rather quickly and built my island into a fortress. I waited a while and gained techs then went exploring... After conquering about half the planet the AI civ's started to get pretty angry. Hehe.. I don't remember how that game ended but I know it came down to a space race against the English.
But one day I got the idea to delete stuff I didn't use that often or wasn't a top priority to use.. So I deleted my Civ 1 since I had gotten tired of it... Suffice it to say that was a big mistake. Now that all the gaming companies have waged war on the abandonware sites, Civ 1 isn't available for download anymore.. :-(
I miss that game so if anyone knows where I can get it tell me!!
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12-06-2002 16:52
, I got the game with my CD-ROM package (I bought a CD+soundcard for the incredible price of ~42 $ then, thanks to knowing ppl 
. thus i could never get into the civilopedia and other menus on the right side of the screen 
) ...it seemed neat, he started me up a new game adn I remember I just ran around with my settler thinking 'woopadeedoo!!'
...when my mom bought a computer a few months later my friend gave me a floppy copy of civ and since I didnt have any other games yet...man I tell you when I sat down and had a few hours to myself I really got into Civ! I remember a new sickly sensation that Id never felt before that I would always feel after about 6+ hours of straight Civ!! 
As someone posted (way) above, I too--even today with CivIII--play so long that when I go to sleep I dream about it 
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