What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New

[Ellis]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

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

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

I remember 'Gunship' though it didn't grab me all that much. I'm not sure if 'Dungeon Master' was a C-64 game. It was a long time ago anyway - I LIVED in that game for months!

[UndercoverNotChickenSalad]

gunship was funny b/c u got points for damage too so the best mission outcome was to be blown out of the sky about 5' off the pad. Landing in a pile of scrapmetal was considered good flying and points were awarded accordingly [8D] I got good at it.

PTO2 will run on windows u can get it at underdog

I prolly played panzer general 2 more than anything. I didn't leave the crib for months I was obsessed w/ it.

[anarchyintheuk]

Colonization, CivII and WitP. Got over the first two (barely), haven't gotten over the last one yet.

[rhondabrwn]

Civ II and any of the Cossacks series. Many are the times that I saw the sun come up on these games.

[Tankerace]

Oh yeah, Cossacks was great. Nothing can beat delivering a point blank volley from 18c Musketeers on a bunch of 16c pikemen or archers.

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

Oh yeah, Cossacks was great. Nothing can beat delivering a point blank volley from 18c Musketeers on a bunch of 16c pikemen or archers.

Or a battery of cannon on a hill blasting away at AI driven troops making repeated futile assaults.

The AI wasn't that good, but definitely fun to annihilate armies.

[Capt. Harlock]

For me, SSI's Fighter Command. Superb mix of turn-based strategizing and real-time reacting.

[rogueusmc]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

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

SimCity was the only reason I bought a Super Nintendo...I was deployed to Okinawa and didn't have much else to do...[:D]

[steveh11Matrix]

Doom. Ugh. Can't stand 1st person shooters.

I think I've spent more time with WitP than anything lately, but I guess the all-time record has to go to Civ.

Steve.

[RevRick]

Computer Game - Pacific War
Board Game -Wooden Ship, Iron Men.
Board Landlubber Game - Squad Leader

[Kuokkanen]

Civilization could be near top. Other candidates include Wing Commander 2, TIE Fighter CD and Total Annihilation.

[ilovestrategy]

Tie Fighter was an awesome game! I went all the way to the end and beat it. But I cant count the number of times I started and finished an epic game of CIV II. Out of all the games on PC and console I've played over the years none have matched CIV II.

[alpha blade]

NBA 06 probably took atleast 2 weeks of my life. I played through the career mode on it and it was pretty fun. I built up a no body character and turned him into a superstar. pure greatness.

[Cmdrcain]

ORIGINAL: Juggalo

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!
Good luck running them on XP though!

I've not tried install my Civ I, I think that might be stored away on 5 1/4's

However have Civ II and Colonization on this XP Home and they run fine.

Need put in a 9x compatiability mode and 2048 XMS in properties so it can run
as colonization is a Dos game and looks for upper ram like one had with the old 486/386's with like 2-4 MB ram.

[Cmdrcain]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

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! [;)]

Another that comes to mind was an part PC part board type gaming, basically moves etc inputed in PC and action results occured, The makers name escapes me but I recall the Games were like 7th Fleet, 5th Eskrada, etc..

C64 with a small foldout table to put map and counters on

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: Cmdrcain

I've not tried install my Civ I, I think that might be stored away on 5 1/4's

It's on 4 disks. If disks are not already corrupted, I recommend you to try game with DOS Box. It really works and you don't need suffer loysy 60 Hz refresh rate! Gotta try it with M.A.X.

Couple games I forgot to mention are MegaMek and MegaMekNET. I have played those over several years and I gotta tell you I don't know any better multiplayer game than those two... and I know plenty MP games [:D]

[Vyshka]

Original Civilization
X-COM: UFO Defense
Ed Ringler's Sports Time Hockey
Starflight
Seven Cities of Gold
Might and Magic 1
F-19
Gunship
Silent Service
Airborne Ranger

[Plodder]

X-com and Wipeout 2097 on the Playstation. I'd just about beaten both when my memory card crashed!

[Veldor]

A quick list of some non-wargame titles:

Ultima IV (Whole Ultima Series really but especially IV)
Civilization I
Archon I & II
Syndicate & Syndicate Wars
Sim City I
Lemmings
Seven Cities of Gold
Defender of the Crown
Raid on Bungeling Bay
Populous
Mule
Bard's Tale
Pool of Radiance & the like (AD&D Classics)

[Rainbow7]

Parsec for the TI99/4A (okay, there wasn't hardly any competition by other games)

Loderunner (among others, for the C64)

MOO3 (and don't mock or belittle me for this ... I stand by it)