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Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

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Re: Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

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Post by kjdal2001 »

dudul wrote: post #2

By far the game I wasted the most time in my life :) Managed to kill my addiction and stop after Civ 4.

I haven't been able to kick the Civ habit completely, but I indulge much less frequently then I did back in college.

I have told my coworkers though, if I come into work in the morning and look red-eyed and tired, its probably not because I was up late drinking last night. Its because I made the terrible decision to fire up a game of Civ at 9pm.

Re: Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

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Post by ra1n85 »

Amazing series.

I still recall being able to recount all of the 7 wonders, all of the large Greek city states, and all that other countless historical context that the developers packed into the game that gave me a slight leg up in middle school history class.

And of course I'll encourage my children to play someday. No childhood is complete without having to fight back Gandhi's unrelenting hordes of musketmen with stealth bombers.

Re: Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

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Post by dcw303 »

I came perilously close to failing several university assignments thanks to an unhealthy obsession with original Civ. And I loved every minute of it.

I still play the newer versions now and then, but the original stands out as a paragon of game design. It was grid based, so unit movement was easy with keystrokes. That along with hot keys for everything meant that you could play a complete game without a mouse. This was particularly useful at keeping the endgame speedy. Something that I think is missing in later versions.

Re: Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

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Post by Pxtl »

domtron_vox wrote: post #4

My father still plays civ 1. His windows 94 broke down a number of years ago. He was so sad about not having civ 1 so I set the game up for him in dosbox.

I get the appeal of simplicity,but why not try newer-but-still-simple Civ like Revolutions or something?

Re: Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

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Post by cmdrfred »

Pxtl wrote: post #8
domtron_vox wrote: post #4

My father still plays civ 1. His windows 94 broke down a number of years ago. He was so sad about not having civ 1 so I set the game up for him in dosbox.

I get the appeal of simplicity,but why not try newer-but-still-simple Civ like Revolutions or something?

Revolutions was too simple for my taste.
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