Poll: Remember your first Civ campagn?

[Superlative]

I'm working on a post for my blog about my first ever campaign in Civ, which I can remember in vivid detail. I remember the civ, the difficulty, the course of the war, and my emotions the whole time. I can even remember the snacks I would have whilst playing.

At that same time i was also severely burnt out and staring down the barrel of what would have been the biggest failure of my life. That made me wonder: do I remember it so well because I love Civ, or because of my fragile mental state?

What about other people?

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I'd love to remember it, but it was over two decades ago--I started with the first Civilization in 1992.

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm... the first "working one" maybe. The first would be something like: build a city, get murdered by Aztecs a few turn in. (Likely)

But the first "GOOD" session. Sure. I remember having control over the whole continent. But i wanted to make it a science-victory so i boxed in the last Mongolian city with tanks, and they kept producing spear-men and running against the wall. I had to laugh so hard, when a unit of spear-men murdered one armored division after some years of trying. Man those guys were heroes. Primitives going against the high-tech overlords and winning. It's like Battlefield earth. Well, for one turn, after which they were horribly murdered.

That session had to be... over 20 years ago. Man... so old.

 

[Jandau]

My first Civ game was Colonization (which I count as a Civ game), which was over two decades ago and it's pretty hazy. Though I did love the game to bits - even more than Civilization, which I found bland and soulless in comparison. Still played Civ, but always liked Colonization better.

 

[beastro]

Yeah fought the Aztecs, then pressed onto their city. Didn't know how to capture cities by walking into them so made 8 units to surround the place and hope for make peace, which they never did.

After that my brother erased my game to play one of his where he was England on and island where he filled every square with a city judging that overall production would be more efficient that way and keep him from being invaded.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Very very hazily. I think I played a pirated copy of Civilization 2 once on my aunt's computer about 17 years ago, making me around 7-ish years old. I dicked about sending colonists freakin' everywhere I could, having no clue what to do otherwise. I just closed the game when I got annoyed at, I think, my colonists not exactly doing well in battle. Aka they got captured.

I didn't touch a game like that for years upon years before I bought Civilization 5 and its expansions and had a jolly good time with it ever since.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

It was when I was 14 years old, in 1994 - I remember only that I played Egypt and that I was amazed.
Oh, and it wasn't my game, but I don't remember whose it was.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Pretty vividly since I only started playing Civilisation last year when Civilisation 5 went on sale with all it's DLC.

I played the Shoshone and I was up against the Aztecs, the Carthaginians, the Americans and the Venetians.
I played peacefully with the Aztecs, since we were neighbours and steadily built up my own civilisation and meeting up with the Carthaginians who were just a short boat journey away. Then the Americans happened. They went to war with Venice and asked my nation for help, which I did because why not? Then they accused me of being a warmongerer, so I gladly proved them wrong by taking them out city by city until they were all crushed. This took a while since I had to ferry my forces across the ocean just to reach them... Then my friendly Aztec neighbours were annoyed at me so I wiped them out and I let the Carthaginians sit in fear for a few decades before I finally raided their nation with giant death robots and nuclear weapons!

Yeah... Once I help crush one civilisation I just have to kill them all...