View Poll Results: How old were you when you started to play Civilization?
51+ 2 1.60%
41-50 5 4.00%
36-40 3 2.40%
31-35 10 8.00%
26-30 6 4.80%
21-25 14 11.20%
16-20 23 18.40%
11-15 40 32.00%
6-10 22 17.60%
Not old enough to peel a banana 0 0%
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Old April 28, 2003, 18:36   #61
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I was 8 or 9 when I got Civ2 MPGE, back in '96 or '97. I've been playing Civ ever since.
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Old April 29, 2003, 06:06   #62
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I played my first civ game 16 years ago - I was 10 years old. Have playedf nearly every civ version since then.

That's 16 joyous civving years - I guess I'm eternally hooked
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Old April 29, 2003, 06:41   #63
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16 years ago?

2003-16=1987

Which civ was that.
Surely not Civ1.

Maybe a board version?
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Old April 29, 2003, 09:10   #64
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I remember trading going like this.

"How about some salt? Anyone want some salt?"

"You know what you can do with your salt!"

"I'll stick my salt up your *** if you don't shut up!"

"You B@stard! Why the hell did you trade me an epidemic! I'll kill you!"

and there was always some poor git going, "anyone want hides?"


Was about the same but with a bit more 4 letter words being flung around. Like I said; trading was great in that game
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Old April 29, 2003, 11:17   #65
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I was around 12.. one of my friend had Civ1. But I really began to play with Civ 2, a few months later
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Old April 30, 2003, 04:31   #66
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I remember trading going like this.

"How about some salt? Anyone want some salt?"

"You know what you can do with your salt!"

"I'll stick my salt up your *** if you don't shut up!"

"You B@stard! Why the hell did you trade me an epidemic! I'll kill you!"

and there was always some poor git going, "anyone want hides?"
We have quite the same experience!
I find this board game still is a great game and I remember a 12 hours non stop game, the whole night long, a couple of year ago...
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Old April 30, 2003, 13:55   #67
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It took a while before I realized that the settler wasn't some weird monster with horn-shaped outgrowths on its head...
Me too. Although I eventually figured it out, I will always think of the settler icon as depicting some helmet with freakishly big horns on it.

Same thing with the cavalry unit. I thought it looked like some threatening black squid with tentacles and stuff. Probably because the very first cavalry units I saw were barbarian and hence supposedly dangerous and evil.
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Old April 30, 2003, 14:40   #68
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Me too. Although I eventually figured it out, I will always think of the settler icon as depicting some helmet with freakishly big horns on it.

Same thing with the cavalry unit. I thought it looked like some threatening black squid with tentacles and stuff. Probably because the very first cavalry units I saw were barbarian and hence supposedly dangerous and evil.

Now when you say it, the cavalry actually looks like a squid....
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Old April 30, 2003, 15:00   #69
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I don't recall how many games of Civ1 I played to the industrial age, looking at the city screen wondering why all those poodle tails kept piling up at the bottom. :-/
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