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  • @frankiecedeno3724
    @frankiecedeno3724 Рік тому +519

    What’s insane to me is how much stuff has persisted from these games. So many game series from this era are almost unrecognizable, but Civilization is the definition of evolution through iteration.

    • @LUCAdupaLUNI
      @LUCAdupaLUNI Рік тому +46

      Meanwhile Game Freak has been making the same game for the last 20 years.

    • @Normandy-e8i
      @Normandy-e8i Рік тому +10

      @@LUCAdupaLUNI It's kinda sad

    • @dudekazoo
      @dudekazoo Рік тому +14

      Very true. I started with civ 3 and production was still represented by shields at that point even. Which never made any damned sense in hindsight. 😅

    • @Americanbadashh
      @Americanbadashh Рік тому +5

      @@LUCAdupaLUNI I mean there's 20 year old glitches in modern Civ titles so it's not that far off

    • @aliensinnoh1
      @aliensinnoh1 Рік тому +12

      When they’re going through that intro I can’t help but think about how the phrase “the first stirrings of life” appear both here and in Civ 6 in Sean Bean’s readout at the start. Cool little Easter egg.

  • @jamescarroll384
    @jamescarroll384 Рік тому +374

    "Fire, tools, weapons, farming, family, villages, tribes"
    Duncan: "Well all those could apply to ants" 😂😂

    • @OodldoodlNoodlesocks
      @OodldoodlNoodlesocks Рік тому +22

      He is wrong but the Ant super colony world war is pretty interesting.

    • @davidstenow5055
      @davidstenow5055 Рік тому +8

      Fire ants!

    • @octopusexperiment1931
      @octopusexperiment1931 Рік тому +11

      I mean they almost do apply

    • @dannyl434
      @dannyl434 Рік тому +13

      The day bees beecome arsonists is the day I burn to a crisp

    • @voodoominerman
      @voodoominerman Рік тому +24

      Fire doesn't, but I feel like pretty much everything else does.
      Ants use debris essentially as sponges to soak up water and take it home, which would qualify as tool use.
      Ants have natural chemical weapons in the form of acid. This ones a little shakier, but I think it still applies.
      Ants are well known to farm fungus, as well as raise livestock in the form of aphids.
      The Queen-worker structure could be thought of as family.
      Ants form nests that essentially function as villages. Some even build seperate structures out of leaves with connecting pathways, much like a city.
      Ant species slowly deviate over time when they become seperate. When they meet each other again, they sometimes see each other as different species and attempt to wipe each other out. This sounds very much like tribalism to me.

  • @BilltheBrewer
    @BilltheBrewer Рік тому +126

    Building up and decorating your castle was one of my favorite parts of civ. I'm sad it's been gone for so long.

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf Рік тому +12

      I remember a mod recreating that being my favourite thing in Civ V

  • @WestOfEarth
    @WestOfEarth Рік тому +84

    That opening to Civ reminds me of Sim Earth. Also I'm reminded of how much history I learned playing these early Civ games. Education seemed to be part of Sid's design philosophy.

  • @yamakaze951
    @yamakaze951 Рік тому +206

    Can't wait for the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri game if they include spin offs

    • @sonofhades57
      @sonofhades57 Рік тому +7

      Shit, that'd be cool. I'd even be down for Beyond Earth.

    • @ArcNine9Angel
      @ArcNine9Angel Рік тому +14

      They need to experience Alpha Centauri, for real.

    • @Techstriker1
      @Techstriker1 Рік тому +3

      Ooh that game was crazy with its deformable map.

    • @katieheys3007
      @katieheys3007 Рік тому +2

      I wanna see them do Beyond Earth so Lewis can lose his mind at how bad it is

    • @RedSander_BR
      @RedSander_BR Рік тому +1

      Can't wait for Civilization revolution! i Hope they invite spiff to play that one, its so incredibly unbalanced, every time the mongols destroy a barb camp they build a city on top.
      If you leave a city with no units inside, people can just walk in and take it over with no fighting.

  • @Urumverax
    @Urumverax Рік тому +134

    THIS IS GREAT! This is one of the first video games I ever played. Super excited for this.

    • @JimmWasHere
      @JimmWasHere Рік тому +1

      i guess I'm a bit younger than you but I can relate nonetheless, civ 4 was one of the first games i ever played.

    • @Dooms1ayer
      @Dooms1ayer Рік тому +2

      This was my first game too! I didn't have a fucking clue what I was doing and it hard crashed without fail when I tried to build a trireme. Great times.

  • @judechauhan6715
    @judechauhan6715 Рік тому +39

    This is like the old Sips indie games and the other old indie game series where every week they tried a new game or like when Duncan played Ark for the first time, can't wait for more!

  • @thesteelrodent1796
    @thesteelrodent1796 Рік тому +5

    Prince is the "normal" difficulty in all Civilization games. At Prince difficulty the AI is not given any bonuses or handicaps. Difficulties below Prince the AI is handicapped, sometimes severely, though in this old game it more or less just means it has to count to 100 before doing anything. And above Prince you get the situation where the AI can spawn units they don't have resources for, and especially in this game will occasionally make completely illogical decisions.
    In Civ 1: Your cities have 0 defense on their own; you HAVE to fortify a unit in every city to defend them. If you don't, any enemy unit can walk right in and capture it (walls only slow down the capture, they do not provide any real defense on their own). If barbarians capture your city, it's gone. If you lose your capital (where the palace is), it's game over. Militia are essentially "man with stick" and not super useful; you need to research military tech to produce actual soldiers. Also remember that all the menus are bound to the F-keys - 1 through 10 - and the game responds faster to key input than mouse input, because of how mouse input had to be implemented in DOS. Movement is designed to be done with the numpad, and it's the only way to move diagonally, but looks like Lewis knows that. The game only auto-saves at specific events, so remember to save regularly
    This is a really horrible upscaling of this game. Assume it's either caused by the community patch Lewis added, or the version he downloaded, because Dosbox doesn't do that. I have the original release of the game somewhere, backed up from the original floppies, but have not touched in a couple decades

  • @pnlrogue1
    @pnlrogue1 Рік тому +2

    Oh my God, I remember that intro music! I remember pressing 121 to start the game until we got a Soundblaster in our Olivetti computer then going to 141 and getting mind-blowingly upgraded music 🤣

  • @GretchenDawntreader
    @GretchenDawntreader Рік тому +4

    Oh. My. God. The nostalgia, that music, the credits, I remember playing this game!

  • @PGM128
    @PGM128 Рік тому +10

    You can't even imagine the hours I put into this game..... thank you for this

  • @noshio7391
    @noshio7391 Рік тому +17

    Love that the civ channel is back in full swing! Keep it up boys ❤

  • @HansLemurson
    @HansLemurson Рік тому +29

    Every Civilization game has had a different lead designer.
    Civilization: Sid Meier
    Civ2: Brian Reynolds
    Civ3: Jeff Briggs
    Civ4: Soren Johnson
    Civ5: Jon Shafer
    Civ6: Ed Beach
    Brian Reynolds was in charge of the spinoff games _Colonization_ and _Alpha Centauri_
    Sid Meier also worked directly on _Civilization Revolution_

    • @vaximillian9460
      @vaximillian9460 Рік тому +3

      Brian Reynolds also designed Rise of Nations while part of Big Huge Games, which combined and married together certain parts of Civilization and Age of Empires. An underrated title these days!

    • @davidallan6705
      @davidallan6705 Рік тому

      Who was a modder who went onto beeing a lead programer?

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson Рік тому +2

      @@davidallan6705 Jon Shafer, who made Civ5, and introduced the shift to 1-unit-per-tile.

    • @davidallan6705
      @davidallan6705 Рік тому

      @@HansLemurson thanks,so he took away the stacks of doom.hope they use the call to power combat for civ 7.

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson Рік тому +3

      @@davidallan6705 Unfortunately replacing them with traffic jams. Even Call to Power had traffic jams sometimes, since no more than 9 or 12 units could ever be in a tile at once.
      It's a big dilemma how to handle large militaries in Civ. When they can stack, you give disproportionate strength to the side with more numbers. When they can't, you give disproportionate strength to entrenched defenders, since superior numbers are often stuck in traffic at chokepoints.

  • @Chick3nluvver
    @Chick3nluvver Рік тому +11

    fantastic how they are going to play all the games in order, so much of my life has been playing civ games, this is a serious nostalgia kick. also gotta give a shout out to the amazing music, especially in civ 2 !

  • @13Xerro
    @13Xerro Рік тому

    The first game I ever played, I’m glad you guys came back to play it. Brought me years of joy playing this. Had you picked 7 civilizations more options for which tribe you choose would have been available. Sometimes you could get lucky right and start with settlers.
    I fully expect to see them leave their cities undefended and watch them be completely perplexed when a barbarian walks straight into it and takes over the city.
    On the off chance they do see this comment, later in the game when you’ve got a good amount of cities up a good way to make money and manage your trade/science ratio is to have a group of cities building other buildings that you immediately sell for gold, this way you keep a steady of gold flowing in while remaining heavily invested in your science.
    Also having that city turn back into a settler can be very useful early on when you settle explore a little further and realise had you gone a little further you could have settled somewhere better. With other Civ games you end up locked in and unable to change your city placement unless you reload.

  • @PsychMike
    @PsychMike Рік тому +4

    The mad lads are actually playing it!!!! Thank you so much!!!

  • @okram2k
    @okram2k Рік тому +7

    god the nostalgia of this. I 'member playing this game as a kid and having really no clue what I was doing but it was still fun

  • @Scarlettshardd
    @Scarlettshardd Рік тому

    I discovered Civ 1 back in the day because it came for free with my copy of Worms 1 (also an amazing classic game). I had no idea what I was doing because I was pretty young when I played it but I had so much fun just experiencing the feeling of building an empire.
    I think sometimes the modern ones focus so much on the mechanics that they forget about the charm of the little animations, building up your palace, etc. The advisors in civ 2 were so entertaining.

  • @XSquibX
    @XSquibX Рік тому +2

    Huh, haven't had you guys pop up in my feed in some time, but I'm intrigued. I use to watch you guys all the time and your civ matches were often a great time. I've never seen Civ 1 or 2 gameplay, so I think I'll stick around here again :)

  • @ReeceLavellan
    @ReeceLavellan Рік тому +1

    Idk why but I actually adore this. I have only ever played Civ 5 so I hold no nostalgia for the older games, but im excited to see you guys do them all! First one seems hilarious from the get go lol. Imagine the chaos if you tried to play this PVP with other people! Glad to see just Lewis and Duncan messing around working it out together :D

  • @ZFFM
    @ZFFM Рік тому +6

    Can't wait for Civ2. It's where I started in the series, that is a great game.

  • @Zynccs
    @Zynccs Рік тому +1

    An absolut banger of a video, love the idea of a complete playthrough of all the civ games and just the perfect duo!

  • @DannoDemo
    @DannoDemo Рік тому +1

    Holy crap! I played this as my first "aaa" game! It was on 10+ disks (3.5" floppy).
    If you lost the install booklet that came with it, you couldn't play. They had pages with historical information which was used for anti hacking that you had to enter the page number in order to unlock the game... EVERY TIME YOU PLAYED.
    Cheers for playing! And good choice with sound blaster! 👍🏻
    PS. From what I remember, ALWAYS have one military fortified in a city. Don't play like Civ V or VI. They are super aggressive and can easily out power you in the first few Eras.

  • @Ffourteen
    @Ffourteen Рік тому +16

    I miss Microprose, Master of Orion and Master of Orion 2 were such amazing games. And they published the American release of X-Com. Such a pillar of nineties gaming.

    • @abehurwitz8861
      @abehurwitz8861 Рік тому

      Both are available on steam!

    • @Ffourteen
      @Ffourteen Рік тому +1

      @@abehurwitz8861 And GOG

    • @cassu6
      @cassu6 Рік тому

      Yes those games are awesome!

  • @SoulReaverVidView
    @SoulReaverVidView Рік тому +3

    OMG the memories! I probably had about 200 hours in this game back in the day. =D Thanks for sharing.

  • @HereticalGeek
    @HereticalGeek Рік тому +1

    God I;ve got so much nostalgia for this game. My grandfather still plays it to this day, and growing up I would spend hours playing it at his house.

  • @ceciliaw5787
    @ceciliaw5787 Рік тому +7

    OMG I have played every single CIV since released, please make this a series! I just started this vid, but can’t wait for palace building 😂😂 is it like I remember it from when I was 10?!

    • @ceciliaw5787
      @ceciliaw5787 Рік тому +2

      God damn, I remember that you had to cancel that start video soooooo fast, otherwise you’d get stuck in it and be forced to watch the whole thing

  • @magnusmartensson1868
    @magnusmartensson1868 Рік тому +1

    Oh gods, the nostalgia of the music. I played this for thousands of hours.

  • @thomasalanine9801
    @thomasalanine9801 5 місяців тому +1

    Lovely trip down memory lane! Thank you!

  • @Planetdune
    @Planetdune Рік тому

    I played this game so much... so many years... last time I played it was a few years back, still holds up.

  • @torgor_
    @torgor_ Рік тому +1

    I am so so excited for civilization 3 on this channel

  • @AlwinDark
    @AlwinDark Рік тому +1

    Love this game. Saw a friend playing it and had to play. The reason I bought my first computer!
    By the way, there are volcanoes... well, there are occasionally volcanic eruptions that damage cities.

  • @kekklesbekkles
    @kekklesbekkles Рік тому +1

    Holy shit this brings back memories, I remember playing this on my first PC in 1995 at 9 years old. Man I'm so old haha.

  • @forg3749
    @forg3749 Рік тому

    This is a really comfy and old-school video. I love it.

  • @TheMisterCantaloupe
    @TheMisterCantaloupe Рік тому +1

    I am excited to watch this from start to finish. I've got a big soft spot for the first Civ game.

  • @thuglyfeoscar
    @thuglyfeoscar Рік тому

    Honeslty love that you're doing this! Loved this video so much I am going back and watching it again because I cant wait for the next episode!

  • @freshcoffeebug
    @freshcoffeebug Рік тому

    I came into this expecting Civ I to be a dull old game, and for Duncan and Lewis to tear into it's dated mechanics.
    But honestly this is a pleasant surprise, apart from a couple weird decisions they mentioned in game (settlers are workers whaaat?) this very much just ancient Civ.
    I'd love to see some more of these older games get a play again, like when Lewis played Colonization with Ben a few years back. Good stuff.

  • @Alex-fn2hl
    @Alex-fn2hl Рік тому

    In spite of some mild dickripping, I'm having a good time! I love the idea of Lewis and Duncan playing through all the Civ games, spinoffs included!

  • @HaniiPuppy
    @HaniiPuppy Рік тому

    7:07 - That was a straight up "What have the Romans ever done for us?" moment.

  • @CatLover_69
    @CatLover_69 Рік тому +4

    Finally some real content

  • @Deacon_Ix
    @Deacon_Ix Рік тому +1

    I got this game off a mate on a single Floppy disc and ended up learning all the techs to answer the questions - lots of memories of trying to organise transport ships to ferry your troops accross water to do battle

  • @Floris271
    @Floris271 Рік тому +1

    This brings back memories! I used to play this game with my brother and my dad, who taught us how to edit the hexadecimal save file on the dos pc to give us the maximum of 40000 gold. Armor and battleships for days! We played with keyboard only, only using the mouse if we had to sell buildings😂

  • @MartijnVos
    @MartijnVos Рік тому

    My dad bought this game just before my finals week, and I spent all week mastering this. At some point, the penny dropped and I scored 268% at Emperor. One of my proudest moments. All my Civ games since then have just been trying to recapture that feeling.

  • @Screaminglyjolly
    @Screaminglyjolly Рік тому

    Holy hells! I played this back in the day! I thought I started with Nr. 2; but no, I recognize all this! I couldn´t read english back then, but I pressed on by virtue of being a dorky kid with NO responsibilities and infinite time, and eventually learnt english, mostly via various games. ^^ Good show gentlefolk!

  • @TheWhiteDragon3
    @TheWhiteDragon3 Рік тому

    I remember playing this! My dad got a bootleg emulator with a bunch of weird games, and this one was my favorite. I had no idea what I was doing or what the hell was going on, and I always lost when the Germans rolled up with submarines, but I loved every moment of it. Looking forwards to content with this one!

  • @GuilhermeFurst
    @GuilhermeFurst Рік тому +1

    I love it, can't wait for you guys to get in the favourites, civ 3 and 4

  • @kitsune6440
    @kitsune6440 Рік тому +3

    Wow I have not seen this for ages. I remember playing this when I was younger. Hehe I had thought the settler unit was a face with crazy hair till my older brother laughed at me when I told him I needed more faces to settle.

  • @DarkAlleyDan
    @DarkAlleyDan Рік тому

    Lord. Made before I existed on earth. What a classic!

  • @alpinemilkful
    @alpinemilkful Рік тому

    I used to play this game as a kid like 25 years ago, still remember it very well, along with the Settlers 1 on Amiga600

  • @ThatPsdude
    @ThatPsdude Рік тому +1

    My first Civ game was civilization call to power! Hooked on them ever since! This series is going to be great :D

  • @markmeleka
    @markmeleka Рік тому +1

    Yesss let's go Egypt! Representing

  • @iwasboredyay
    @iwasboredyay Рік тому +7

    When they get to test of time, I hope they do one of the scenarios with 4 maps. It was always confusing and fun!

  • @ThatPsdude
    @ThatPsdude Рік тому +4

    Oh man, I forgot about the palace building part of civ! This is such a nostalgia trip lol

  • @Ghostiification
    @Ghostiification Рік тому +2

    Oh man, the nostalgy. One of the very first videogames I ever played, mainly because it was already installed on the "computer" I got for a bd present back in what.. 96 I guess. Back when I barely could count to ten in English, so it's needless to say I didn't really shine on this game :D The Game Over screen is the one I remember the best, as well as militia and phalanx units. I always thought the Settler was some kind of an animal, as the wheels looked like eyes to me lol

  • @ChanceBrunton
    @ChanceBrunton Рік тому +1

    This is amazing! I grew up with Civ 2 and later. I've always wanted to see what Civ 1 was like and this is the perfect opportunity! I hope this will be a full play through, and I'm looking forward to all the other games after that! Call to Power was my favorite civilization game ever, I hope you'll do that one too!

  • @_Uhtcaru
    @_Uhtcaru Рік тому

    An absolute pleasure of a video!!!

  • @splinter4103
    @splinter4103 Рік тому

    So many great memories coming back... I used to play this all the time!

  • @altejoh
    @altejoh Рік тому

    2:50 this seems to be the same intro that Leonard Nemoy reads out to you if you sit on the Civ 4 loading screen xD This is great!

  • @PeRcH72
    @PeRcH72 Рік тому

    Brings back memories, nice to see you guys play this! Can't wait to see the next video!

  • @MarcoAntonio-tb4gx
    @MarcoAntonio-tb4gx Рік тому

    I have this game on my Phone, its perfectly playable and while I dont play it anymore (now I work from home so no need to play on my Phone) I always get happy when I see people is still playing this gem.

    • @JorgeDanielGonzalezLeal
      @JorgeDanielGonzalezLeal 7 місяців тому

      Are you using magic dosbox?

    • @MarcoAntonio-tb4gx
      @MarcoAntonio-tb4gx 6 місяців тому

      @@JorgeDanielGonzalezLeal Hello Jorge, yes, I think Magic Dosbox its the best way to play civ 1 in an Android Phone

  • @gavucci7222
    @gavucci7222 7 місяців тому +1

    Lewis's giggle-fit reactions turn a otherwise humor-lacking game into a lot of laughs lol

  • @dennis7782
    @dennis7782 Рік тому

    What a cool and neat idea for a little showcase/series!
    Reminds me of the Colonization series with Ben, that was great as well!

  • @limewood1
    @limewood1 Рік тому +1

    All the nostalgia! This game is one of the main reasons I learned English early.

  • @bookbinder66
    @bookbinder66 Рік тому +2

    Thats right Duncan ants and bees run fire , i saw them roasting honey thet other day

  • @primiq
    @primiq Рік тому

    Love it, civ 1 series, YES PLEASE !

  • @Buffalax
    @Buffalax Рік тому

    I'm so excited for this series!

  • @Lauren_Ipsum
    @Lauren_Ipsum Місяць тому

    I love this series so much.

  • @TheNiters
    @TheNiters Рік тому +1

    THIS IS AWESOME! I remember building this millions of years ago :D

    • @Wargasmo
      @Wargasmo Рік тому +1

      SID?! Is that you?!

  • @Matakshaman
    @Matakshaman Рік тому

    Great idea with this series! Our beloved old games deserve more attention. Still playing Populous and Dungeon Keeper

  • @LD-bj4xc
    @LD-bj4xc Рік тому +7

    I’d love to see that civ pirate game where your colonising the new world,would love to see it,I remember Lewis playing it ages ago and I loved that series
    Edit- Sid miers colonisation

    • @RedSntDK
      @RedSntDK Рік тому

      Colonization was such a cool game. The first strategy game I took serious I think.

    • @stephensrocket
      @stephensrocket Рік тому

      @@RedSntDK They tried FreeCol on Armchair Admirals on one stream but couldn't get the multiplayer to connect.

  • @StrangelyIronic
    @StrangelyIronic Рік тому +1

    Can't wait to watch these, hope Lewis turns off the interpolation or whatever pixel rendering filter is turned on. Need the hard edge crunchy goodness of classic DOS VGA games.

  • @Einomar
    @Einomar Рік тому

    Ahh remember playing this back in 95 in high-school xD, sweet memories.

  • @varisware
    @varisware Рік тому

    Sid Meier designed many of the games he did not program himself and nowadays he is the Creative Director at the studio (Firaxis) so basically he still gets final say in all game making decisions. The brand name "Sid Meier's" is pretty accurate.

  • @gretafreitag2041
    @gretafreitag2041 Рік тому +3

    I played this a lot as a kid because my dad wanted us to try the old DOS games, and I had to write down commands to move diagonally on a sticky note because the controls were so bad. But yeah I loved this game.

    • @MrZauberelefant
      @MrZauberelefant 3 місяці тому

      Numpad. Weird he didn't tell you that

    • @gretafreitag2041
      @gretafreitag2041 3 місяці тому

      @@MrZauberelefant I played it on an ancient mac laptop haha, so no better option unfortunately. It was on a MSDOS emulator named Boxer or something like that, which might have affected the controls.

  • @Deniecu
    @Deniecu Рік тому

    Man this looks so cool. I wouldn't want to play it but, awesome that you guys are doing this!

  • @disscospider
    @disscospider Рік тому +2

    It's so funny watching them play this while still holding onto some Civ V and VI strats, I think apart from exploration and building cities, there aren't many similarities between how the game is played. I would always build Miltia, fortify it, then another Militia to scout, Barracks, Granary then move onto Settlers. And I also change the tax rate so I can crank out techs fairly fast. IIRC they have it set to 0% science and 50/50 luxury and income (the 0.5.5) which is why it took them so long to research tech

    • @stephensrocket
      @stephensrocket Рік тому +1

      I think they're on 50% tax 50% science, otherwise no tech would ever get discovered - however they need to build roads to get trade to convert into the tax and science.

  • @oneandy2
    @oneandy2 Рік тому

    I have some great memories of this game as a kid. I remember you could edit game files for the intro cinematic to change the text really easily.

  • @J3553xAnotherFan
    @J3553xAnotherFan Рік тому

    The fact that the CORE of this game survived ever iteration...
    ...Bravo, Episode 2 when?

  • @LaughingManCK
    @LaughingManCK Рік тому

    I got this game bundled with CIV 2 way back. it came with no manual, and I remember those copy protection screens, and not understanding what was going on! it was brutal.

  • @Xiimen
    @Xiimen Рік тому

    This is like watching Rythian play in the early days with strategic mode on civ 5 ;) Fun series.

  • @leotlemp
    @leotlemp Рік тому

    I love the old civ videos

  • @themattenthehat
    @themattenthehat Рік тому +2

    damn this is amazing! I started with Civ 3 and always wondered what the original was like, but could never be bothered to get it running. It's crazy that it is immediately recognizable as civ. Also, holy crap I had forgotten you used to be able to stack units hahaha that was wild

    • @OriginalPiMan
      @OriginalPiMan Рік тому +2

      Gets weirder. In Civ1, if you kill one unit in a stack, it kills the whole stack unless the stack is in a city.

    • @Debbiebabe69
      @Debbiebabe69 Рік тому

      Only ever played civs 1/2/3, what happened wwith unit stacks in the newer games?

    • @OriginalPiMan
      @OriginalPiMan Рік тому

      @@Debbiebabe69
      They worked fine in 4, but 5 and 6 have only one unit per tile.

    • @Debbiebabe69
      @Debbiebabe69 Рік тому

      @@OriginalPiMan Ouch.... that sounds painful....

    • @OriginalPiMan
      @OriginalPiMan Рік тому

      @@Debbiebabe69
      It was definitely a controversial change, but they've made it work.
      I do prefer full stacking though.

  • @doughnutdoney997
    @doughnutdoney997 Рік тому

    Great video and memories, remember playing this when it first came out. Civ 2 was always my favourite as it had FMV advisors and many improvements on this game :)

  • @johanwittens7712
    @johanwittens7712 Рік тому +2

    Wow i spent years of my childhood playing this game...
    Some tips:
    - The grassland tiles with the green circle on them are bonus grasslands, giving one extra food. Irrigate them as quickly as possible.
    - Improve your land as quickly as possible instead of building new cities. Your cities grow faster, and produce faster the bigger they get. Cities literally grow if their food stores are filled to max, then reset to zero. It's basically like the production que but with food, adding 1pop to your city instead of building something. The higher the pop of a city, the more food is required to fill the stores and grow the city.
    - Settlers do require food as maintenance, so one more reason to get that land around your cities irrigated to produce more food!!
    - There is no seperated science in this game. Your trade is divided up between taxes (income for your treasury), military upkeep, science spending, spending on entertainment, and corruption (i think that's all of them). You really need A LOT MORE trade if you want to do any significant science. Adjusting your tax, science and entertainment spending rates influences how much of your trade is used for what.
    - The more cities you build the more corrupt your empire will become, losing trade to corruption. Yes this was a thing that was sadly lost in the more recent iterations of the game. And you need technology and certain buildings (like a courthouse) to reduce corruption. So just spewing out settlers and expanding as fast as possible, like is often the strategy in the new civ games, is a really bad one in the first civ games. You can cripple your economy in these old civ games through overextending, and thus corruption. If all your trade is lost to corruption, you can't pay the upkeep for your armies, don't have any gold income for your treasury, and don't produce any science. Also happiness of your citizens also influences how corrupt your empire becomes.
    Just a few things i noticed in this first half hour, that might be good to know...

    • @LGranado-pj6nb
      @LGranado-pj6nb 4 місяці тому +1

      Or you can expand as much as you want, provided that you put 100% into science, play with governments that allow martial law to limit city unhappiness with units, create as many cities and units as possible to get a domination victory, and build no buildings to prevent bankruptcy - 100% guaranteed you will overtake the ai in science and be able to extend as far as you want without worrying about money

  • @krudtklovnen
    @krudtklovnen Рік тому

    Brings back so many great memories playing this as a kid with my dad. I still have the chunky ~150 pages manual laying around somewhere 😅

  • @Kicksticks
    @Kicksticks Рік тому

    Love to see this is gonna be a series. Hopefully Pirates make it in. I love that game sm

  • @acornnplays8406
    @acornnplays8406 Рік тому

    OMG I got shivers of nostalgia

  • @Legitpigeon
    @Legitpigeon Рік тому +1

    Amaizng. Looking forward to Civ II and it's FMV council. BUILD CITY WALLS

  • @DavionStar
    @DavionStar Рік тому

    Oh man. I remember playing this back when it first came out. I think it came with the CD drive of the Soundblaster or something. Been so long. And good old copy protection. Don't lose those instruction books.

  • @mr.squeaky8394
    @mr.squeaky8394 Рік тому

    My favorite early game was "Empire". It began as early as the 70's. It is available on Steam now.

  • @MontySaurusRex_
    @MontySaurusRex_ Рік тому

    Ive never seen this played in my life. Im excited

  • @Planetdune
    @Planetdune Рік тому

    You are placing cities to close to each other, they will take resources from each other as they grow. You are also not using units with multiple moves efficiently, as it depends on the terrain they traverse. So sometimes you have to zigzag to maximize movement.

  • @RecOgMission
    @RecOgMission Рік тому

    This was the first game I played that was more than just "messing about". One school holiday, aged 13, my brother and I used to take turns sleeping while the other was playing :)

  • @dominiquerettob7250
    @dominiquerettob7250 Рік тому

    YES YES YES YES YES!!! I still play this game when im bored!

  • @jokerjur
    @jokerjur Рік тому

    I still play this on my Amiga every now and then! Still awesome!

  • @Freezefort
    @Freezefort Рік тому

    After like 8 years I'm back to watch civ :)

  • @Thoran666
    @Thoran666 Рік тому

    Egypt: We learned the alphabet today.
    Barbarians: H - is for Horrible horse men of doom

  • @davidstenow5055
    @davidstenow5055 Рік тому +1

    I can’t believe I managed to play this game as a child haha, excited to see how this turns out!

  • @Reddog794
    @Reddog794 Рік тому

    Serious flashbacks to my childhood, and finding the txt file of the into and editing it to nonsense. I loved the original so much, all the following games are amazing but the original is timeless.

  • @alluraambrose2978
    @alluraambrose2978 Рік тому

    Best game intro ever.