/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3988552
Civ 2 is a special kind of nostalgic for me.

Being a curious 90's kid with no internet, I'd bury my nose deep into those illustrated junior encyclopaedias at the library, picking up on biology, astronomy and history, the latter of which got me daydreaming of one day playing vidya about advancing a society through all the stuff covered. Lo and behold that wish came true when I downloaded Civ years later. (Remember when it was available on Abandonia?)

To this day every time I play it - often precisely because I felt like experiencing it all over again - I relive that optimistic sense of discovery from a time when 'puters started popping up everywhere and the information superhighway with all it's easily available multimedia would make everyone smarter... (Results have varied.)

Plus with the Civ series in general, being all about global human activity throughout the ages (with a fair bit of western-centric over-simplification) gives it a grand scale, no matter how simple the mechanics. They feel like games featuring everything and with the moddability of newer entries could as well be.