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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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...

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_

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.

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

Lovely trip down memory lane! Thank you!

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

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

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

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 !

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

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.

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

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

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

I think I hear the ghosts of dialup modems in the background...

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

I am so so excited for civilization 3 on this channel

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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?!

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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 🤣

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 :)

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

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 😅

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

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

Great series going to look forward to seeing all the games played.

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

I've never played this, but just the style of the graphics makes me super nostalgic!

Finally some real content

Cool series idea! What a wild old game by looks of it haha. Love us a bard uprising and a disappearing city

I'm so excited for this series!

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.

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.

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😂

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

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

Yesss let's go Egypt! Representing

Love it, civ 1 series, YES PLEASE !

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

Love this! Excited to see all the games!❤

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!

amazing ! you have to try civ 2, it’s my fav in the franchise along with 5. keep them coming :)

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.

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!

Call To Power had some neat features like dropping lawyers from orbit to paralyze rival cities with injunctions

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

An absolute pleasure of a video!!!

So looking forward to Civ 2. Hope you get a version with the advisors in tact!

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

This was such a good game at the time… I played it on the amiga. And I played again a few years ago… it’s still great fun

I really like this video, introduced me to apiece of history, never thought about the first Civ game.

Ive never seen this played in my life. Im excited

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.

I love the old civ videos

I remember playing this on the amiga. The intro music really hit me in the nostalgia

4:30 looks like that T-Rex and Triceratops are going in for a fist bump

A friend and I used to play the hell out of all the tycoon and civ stuff and a couple sim things. Miss doing that with him, hope you're doing well David!

Ooh, glad you're going through all the games. Civ II Gold Edition was my first. Came with a giant foldable tech tree poster!

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

This is great, it has Double Dragon vibes for me somehow, I'm into that