my first game of civ1 was at anarres house when he was at uni, I was staying for the w/e and spent most of it glued to the monitor desperate to finish a game before I had to go! I had already spent many an hour playing colonisation before this mind you.
civ2 was largely the reason I bought a PC
- once I had exauhsted the single player game I devoured all the expansion packs and user mods etc.
I had kinda ignored civ3 when it came out because of the broken MP (by this time I only played a couple of games at all and they were PBEM wargames). Eventually anarres persuaded me that they had patched PTW sufficiantly so I came here and started my PBEM with dan after just a couple of quick solo games.
My first civ4 game, well I'll probably play a solo game or two at emporer+ then I'll be stuck into MP. Hopefully the online and team game variations etc. will actually be implemented well, it promises much... (who's taking what odds on it needing a patch to play MP properly?)