Bad Goody Huts | Sid Meier's Civilization 1 #1

That's right we're playing CIV 1! Strap in because this game is very old
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Lewis: @yogscast
Duncan: @duncan
Bad Goody Huts | Sid Meier's Civilization #1
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Gameplay Overview:
The Flagship Turn-Based Strategy Game Returns. Become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age: Wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, go head-to-head with some of history’s greatest leaders and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known.
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[@frankiecedeno3724]

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]

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

[@404killer]

@@LUCAdupaLUNI It's kinda sad

[@dudekazoo]

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]

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

[@aliensinnoh1]

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]

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

[@OodldoodlNoodlesocks]

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

[@davidstenow5055]

Fire ants!

[@octopusexperiment1931]

I mean they almost do apply

[@dannyl434]

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

[@voodoominerman]

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.

[@yamakaze951]

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

[@sonofhades57]

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

[@ArcNine9Angel]

They need to experience Alpha Centauri, for real.

[@Techstriker1]

Ooh that game was crazy with its deformable map.

[@katieheys3007]

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

[@RedSander_BR]

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.

[@BilltheBrewer]

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]

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

[@WestOfEarth]

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.

[@HansLemurson]

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]

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]

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

[@HansLemurson]

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

[@davidallan6705]

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

[@HansLemurson]

@@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.

[@ndsteinbach]

This feels so much like an old Yogscast video, can't wait to see you play other old civ games!!

[@judechauhan6715]

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!

[@Urumverax]

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

[@JimmWasHere]

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]

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.

[@Ffourteen]

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]

Both are available on steam!

[@Ffourteen]

@@abehurwitz8861 And GOG

[@cassu6]

Yes those games are awesome!

[@noshio7391]

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

[@Zynccs]

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

[@Chick3nluvver]

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 !

[@GretchenDawntreader]

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

[@PsychMike]

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

[@PGM128]

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

[@okram2k]

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

[@thuglyfeoscar]

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!

[@PeRcH72]

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

[@GuilhermeFurst]

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

[@Menoetia]

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

[@ReeceLavellan]

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

[@SoulReaverVidView]

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

[@XSquibX]

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 :)

[@ChanceBrunton]

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!

[@forg3749]

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

[@gretafreitag2041]

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.

[@Planetdune]

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

[@HereticalGeek]

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.

[@splinter4103]

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

[@TheMisterCantaloupe]

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

[@ThatPsdude]

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

[@doughnutdoney997]

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 :)

[@ThatPsdude]

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

[@Deniecu]

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

[@iwasboredyay]

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

[@ZFFM]

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

[@bookbinder66]

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

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

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!

[@alpinemilkful]

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

[@primiq]

Love it, civ 1 series, YES PLEASE !

[@13Xerro]

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.

[@Buffalax]

I'm so excited for this series!

[@Fletchr86]

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.

[@dennis7782]

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

[@Cl0ne66]

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

[@krudtklovnen]

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 😅

[@kitsune6440]

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.

[@jokerjur]

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

[@ceciliaw5787]

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]

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

[@Matakshaman]

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

[@someperson8641]

Love this! Excited to see all the games!❤

[@torgor_]

I am so so excited for civilization 3 on this channel

[@acornnplays8406]

OMG I got shivers of nostalgia

[@Deacon_Ix]

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

[@burno7329]

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

[@ricardomora9913]

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

[@Ghostiification]

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

[@DarkAlleyDan]

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

[@magnusmartensson1868]

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

[@fiofofionomoto]

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

[@8thy]

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

[@Kicksticks]

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

[@DmitryInNz]

Wow the nostalgia. One of the first games I played ever

[@HaniiPuppy]

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

[@oneandy2]

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.

[@user-je9lq4iv7y]

Love me some civilization. use to play this on the snes emulator all the time.

[@pnlrogue1]

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 🤣

[@Tsass0]

That brought memories back

[@sawtoothspike]

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

[@Einomar]

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

[@TheNiters]

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

[@Wargasmo]

SID?! Is that you?!

[@LaughingManCK]

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.

[@Foot_Sandwich]

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

[@Floris271]

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😂

[@_Uhtcaru]

An absolute pleasure of a video!!!

[@leotlemp]

I love the old civ videos

[@Culando]

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.

[@Scarlettshardd]

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.

[@tumainiemdewa]

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

[@TheSurprisePizza]

I played this as a wee lad back on the ol' Atari ST! Good times!

[@Dave_L913]

I played this a bit. I played the daylights out of the follow on Colonization. I can still remember the looping BGM song.

[@Balsiefen]

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

[@rareoddish]

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.

[@tyukan2000]

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

[@Dacamster101]

Super interesting seeing the original gameplay.

[@MontySaurusRex_]

Ive never seen this played in my life. Im excited

[@AlwinDark]

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.

[@DannoDemo]

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.

[@Xiimen]

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

[@thesteelrodent1796]

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

[@BlueSunHiredGun]

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

[@Thisismychannel77]

So that must be why they had a foldable tech tree poster with Civ V!

[@johanwittens7712]

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...

[@RecOgMission]

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 :)

[@Legitpigeon]

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

[@Morzone15]

Wow, I didnt know he made so many of the games I loved growing up

[@Freezefort]

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

[@altejoh]

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!

[@danielgorin311]

I remember the old Ben and Lewis colonisation play through would love a return to that

[@LD-bj4xc]

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

[@RedSaint83]

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

[@stephensrocket]

@@RedSaint83 They tried FreeCol on Armchair Admirals on one stream but couldn't get the multiplayer to connect.