Civilization II

It wasn't necessarily a bad port, but this isn't a good controller game.

I've been a fan, a Civ fan since the '90s, but my first entry point was Civilization II.

And whilst I never played Civ III or Test of Time, far too much time of my life was spent on II, IV, and V.

Civilization II, however, was a game that borderline consumed my teenage years.

I couldn't resist that one more turn gameplay.

So with this in mind, I was excited to finally make the effort to play the original properly.

In the early '90s, I didn't have a modern computer for the early '90s.

My mother worked at a university as a finance person, and when they upgraded their computers, she would take home the computers they were throwing away and give them to me.

Yeah.

You play the game Civilization II?

Ancient Asians invented gunpowder.

[laughs] You play that game too? Hell yeah.

For fireworks.

[laughs] Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I watched a little bit of that

And I always do this, and maybe it's from early video games.

You know, one I was hooked on early in the life of video games was Civilization II, which is something that required a lot of math and thinking.

I actually was into Madden 2000 for a long time because there was a...

There was a club mode where you could manage the club.

video games? That was, I watched, yeah, video games, not so much.

Okay, video games, a long time ago, not in the last 20 years, but I was playing stuff like Civilization II.

Back then, like, the whole day, sometimes, yeah.

Okay, so you're pretty much Tanzanian at this point right now, yeah?

But historians and archaeologists do not recognize an official list of seven lost global civilizations.

There is no buried archive somewhere showing Atlantis as Civilization I, some forgotten Ice Age empire as Civilization II, and us as number eight.

Human history does not divide itself that neatly.

It never has.