What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New

[jvgfanatic]

Gads, Any Koei game does definitely take the cake for number of hours overall...but Phantasy Star Online was the largest number of logged hours I played a game immediately after release.

Other Time Suckers:

Adventure on the 2600
Nearly every Infocom text adventure
Ultima (1)
Bard's Tale
Might & Magic
Wizardry
Every Daisenryaku game

[Tankerace]

OH Holy crap, I almost forgot, Koei's Liberty or Death was a good one that stole many hours from me. Alway's liked throwing British Redcoats into the sea with my colonials.

[ravinhood]

Oh gawd I forgot Railroad Tycoon I, that one also stole many many many hours of play time when brand new. Man SID was on a roll back then wasn't he? RRT, Civilization and Pirates I guess stole the majority of my time for quite a long time.

But, OT just a sec, what the heck was he thinking when he did SIM GOLF?? LOL, it's a cute little game, but, it just doesn't feel like SID.

[bostonrpgmania]

Original Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Baldur's gate II

followed by

Starcraft, combat mission and finally Korsun Pocket (cheers matrix [:D]

[ilovestrategy]

CIV II, without a doubt. Oh my god, that game took so much of my life away.

[Marc von Martial]

"Gunship" by Microprose. The org. C-64 one.

I played and played and played and played .....

[AlexCobra]

Hi!

Championship Manager 2 (Italian leagues) - soccer management game from SI... can't exactly say how much time it sucked... but I counted nights playing it... and btw, it got internal counter for the time spend in it, and I remember one game was nearly month long... gametime month.

Also Heroes of M&M 3, NBA series.

Alex.

[Puukkoo]

ORIGINAL: AlexCobra

Hi!

Championship Manager 2 (Italian leagues) - soccer management game from SI... can't exactly say how much time it sucked... but I counted nights playing it... and btw, it got internal counter for the time spend in it, and I remember one game was nearly month long... gametime month.

Also Heroes of M&M 3, NBA series.

Alex.

Hey, that's true. I have also lost many days with Championship Manager series. The version I've played was 4. Almost as great waste of time has been Eastside Hockey Manager. I coached SKA St. Petersburg in that game.

[Cmdrcain]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

"Gunship" by Microprose. The org. C-64 one.

I played and played and played and played .....

I remember that.

But the C-64 game that ate up my time was Pirates, with Original Silent Service a close second.

[Pippin]

Civ III springs to mind... though Axis & Allie beats it by a hundred thousand hours I think.

[wodin]

Elite on my BBC B
Gunship on my Amstrad 464

[watchtower]

PONG! - then space invaders - missile command .............all ate my dosh
Gauntlet..............
Spyhunter........

then a ZX81 (kit build) 1K ............1K chess

16K Ram Pack and 3D monster maze............( hey, ok it was rubbish but fake 3D on a 8 bit piece of kak in 1981....wow)

Then...

Sinclair Spectrum ... Rebelstar Raiders (programmed by the X-comm boys before all that)

Atari 800 ..........(tons of good strat games) but ... Choplifter[:D]

C64.... Seven cities of gold.

................I could go on and on but................

[watchtower]

Elite on the Beeb was the ONLY copy of the game.............SOOO GOOD and all in 32K!!

[watchtower]

ORIGINAL: watchtower

................I could go on and on but................

I know, bad form replying to your own post but.. it's late and I have had one or two or so of my ' Watchtower's nasty old wrinkley scrotem' home brews..so

on the PC

DOS

Colonization
Xcom - terror from the deep
Dune

95 & up

Championship manager - before it all got silly
Fallout
BOB
BTR ( both these games took away my very late 30 year old childhood)
Great battles of..series
Jagged Alliance - all versions ..and 2 took over my life for at least a year .......and I still play it.arrrrgh ( buy that engine matrix[:D][8D])
combat mission (for a bit)


And then sodding WITP - Please someone take this horrible thing from me.

At one time I was a young and handsome a youthful, gamboling 30 odd year old buck that was due to be a shining light in this world.

Out of the blue (well not quite 'Out of the blue' cos I had dabbled with UV) That WITP thing was on me, growing like a rash. very quickly it grew spreading all over my rational thinkling.

But as long as I keep away from the advanced state known as 'PBEM' my medical advisors say I will be ok.

[TexHorns]

Colonization, Civ I and Age of Empires. Colonization was a neat game and I wish I still had it.

Now I started playing computer games due to the lack of opponents for traditional board war gaming. The war game that my group of friends and I wore out was AH's Longest Day. We played that game almost non stop for 3 years. We would set it up, play through the middle of July, then start over.

Also, as a sign of our true sickness and addiction. One summer we set up SPI's Highway to the Reich in one guys garage. We would play all night until the sun came up the next morning. All his neighbors were going to work and I was driving home to go to bed. I was in graduate school at the time. The guy with the garage was an air traffic controller who would go straight to work after the game session, clock in, clock out for break and take a nap. Ahhhhhhh, those were the days. I'm sorry but computer gaming just doesn't have the same nuances as board games.

[Adam Parker]

Lords of the Realm 2.

Why oh why were they allowed to balls it up with Lords of the Realm 3? [:(]

[Pippin]

Why oh why were they allowed to balls it up with Lords of the Realm 3

Agreed, I remember playing Lords of the realm II so much. The only game where watching the animated mpegs 1000 times DIDN'T get boring! Waited forever for version III to come out, and when it finaly did years later, it was a totaly different game! Ughhhh Reminds me of that new Axis & Allies game that isn't even Axis & Allies but some rts crap.

Count that as two stupid mistakes I made... well life is full of them right?

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: Cmdrcain

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

"Gunship" by Microprose. The org. C-64 one.

I played and played and played and played .....

I remember that.

But the C-64 game that ate up my time was Pirates, with Original Silent Service a close second.

I would say that Silent Service and Pirates ate up 10 minutes less then Gunship! [;)]

[Pippin]

I think gauntlett II was the #1 C-64 game... Even made it to the arcade.

[TAIL GUNNER]

Colonization, Civ I and Age of Empires. Colonization was a neat game and I wish I still had it.

Hey, check it out...

get Colonization, Civ I and II here for free!

www.abandonia.com

Good luck running them on XP though!