What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New

[ravinhood]

So, what game was it that stole the most successive hours of your life when it was brand new and no other new release could tear you away from it because it was that good?

My choice would still have to goto "Civilization I & II". I can't even guess how many successive hours I spent playing CIV I when it first came out. But, it was certainly game after game and week after week as I played every nation at least once. When II came out I remember putting many hours into it as well, but, not near as many as the origional, I guess by that time I had burnt myself out on the game as a whole, but, it still qualifies as a long standing successive game of play over all new releases.

[Hertston]

Silent Service 2, although the original Elite is probably a pretty close runner up.

For some reason Civ never really grabbed me, although I spent many hours playing Colonization which (for some reason) I found a lot more fun.

[Raverdave]

Doom, the original. I played and played that game. Then there was the original Sim city. Lots of wasted time[:D]

[TAIL GUNNER]

Damn...you just got me thinking back about all the hours, which must add up to YEARS I've wasted playing video and computer games![X(]

Anyways.....

The game that probably killed the most neurons is either The Legend of Zelda on the venerable ol' NES...
(What a revolution that game was!)

OR, Herzog Zwei which was on the SEGA Genny 16-bit...

Talonsoft's CS series on computer have to be up there too...

[Sarge]

Combat Mission BO,

I wish I could get the same return from my broker [:D]

[trajanus]

I think Europa Universalis 2 stole the most time ever for me. Although I did play the original Wing Commander over and over and over again as well...

[SeaMonkey]

Koei's PTO2

[Tankerace]

ORIGINAL: SeaMonkey

Koei's PTO2

Amen to that! I remember I had to stay out of school for a week with strep throat, so I played it non stop. Also played the first one to death.

[SeaMonkey]

I remember I had to stay out of school for a week

He he, you too! Just made my fifth year at my umpteenth company and got that 3rd week of vacation. Blurred vision after the third day made me give a rest.

Still looking for something comparable, GG's WaW has been the closest, but still no diplomacy. WitP...to much micromanagement.

Have great hope for a mod using the SC2 engine, perhaps Matrix TOAW, and what was that vaporware that looked so promising, had a Coral Sea and Guadalcanal scenario for trailers?

[ravinhood]

What is this Koei PTO??? Did I miss a good game? What platform? console only??

[Cmdrcain]

Humm very early... 80's The ORIGINAl EMPIRE game

In 90s... The Original War in the Pacific (Dos game)

in 2000's... War in the Pacific (windows..)

In 80-90's in online gaming... Kesmais Steller Emperor

in 90-2000's online gaming... Vibes later owned by O2... Mankind

[Tankerace]

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

What is this Koei PTO??? Did I miss a good game? What platform? console only??

It was a console only game, like WitP but with almost most no micromanaging (unless you wanted to do all the naval battles manually in turn based format). The original was for the Sega Genesis, while PTO2 Was for the Genesis, Super Nintendo, and Windows 95.

[Hard Sarge]

Hmmm
overall, would have to say, almost any game I got, that was anygood

but maybe would have to say BTR, I won it twice as the Allied player, and had a lots of mid range games that needed to be restarted (I helped with OOBs testing)(each OOB needs a restart to use)

[Dazooz2]

Combat Mission opended a whole new world to this 25 year old at the time!

When I was younger? It was Tecmo bowl, Tecmo bowl, Tecmo bowl.
My brother and I would play out games keeping all the stats!

[Goblin]

For me it was the Wizardry series (Knight of Diamonds, Revenge or Werdna, etc) back on the Apple II.

For modern games, I would say Civ or X-Com UFO Defense took up the most time when new.




Goblin

[madflava13]

Wargame? Good ol' Pacwar
Other? Civilization, Colonization, Railroad Tycoon

[Trigger Happy]

I would have to say Civ II also.

[Puukkoo]

Civ 1 perhaps. The idea was still so young back then that you just could not get enough of it.

[*Lava*]

Easily Civ II.

Ray (alias Lava)

[Tankerace]

For PC, Civ II hands down. Played that game to death.