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wodin -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 2:56:21 AM)
Elite on my BBC B Gunship on my Amstrad 464

watchtower -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 4:39:21 AM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 4:42:04 AM)
Elite on the Beeb was the ONLY copy of the game.............SOOO GOOD and all in 32K!!

watchtower -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 5:21:39 AM)
quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 7:50:12 AM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 8:00:57 AM)
Lords of the Realm 2. Why oh why were they allowed to balls it up with Lords of the Realm 3? [:(]

Pippin -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 8:21:28 AM)
quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 9:25:50 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Cmdrcain quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 12:42:40 PM)
I think gauntlett II was the #1 C-64 game... Even made it to the arcade.

TAIL GUNNER -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 4:15:57 PM)
quote: 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!

Ellis -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 7:31:02 PM)
quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 7:40:54 PM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/8/2005 11:52:46 PM)
Colonization, CivII and WitP. Got over the first two (barely), haven't gotten over the last one yet.

rhondabrwn -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/9/2005 5:45:59 AM)
Civ II and any of the Cossacks series. Many are the times that I saw the sun come up on these games.

Tankerace -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/9/2005 5:52:56 AM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/9/2005 9:33:20 AM)
quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/9/2005 10:21:40 PM)
For me, SSI's Fighter Command. Superb mix of turn-based strategizing and real-time reacting.

rogueusmc -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/10/2005 2:36:09 AM)
quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/10/2005 2:48:38 AM)
[sm=vomit-smiley-020.gif] 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/10/2005 4:30:16 AM)
Computer Game - Pacific War Board Game -Wooden Ship, Iron Men. Board Landlubber Game - Squad Leader

Kuokkanen -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/10/2005 10:15:51 PM)
Civilization could be near top. Other candidates include Wing Commander 2, TIE Fighter CD and Total Annihilation.

ilovestrategy -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/11/2005 8:31:16 AM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/14/2005 8:02:01 AM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/15/2005 5:47:01 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Juggalo quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/15/2005 5:50:59 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck quote: ORIGINAL: Cmdrcain quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/15/2005 10:09:55 AM)
quote: 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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/15/2005 10:13:02 AM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/15/2005 12:24:21 PM)
X-com and Wipeout 2097 on the Playstation. I'd just about beaten both when my memory card crashed!

Veldor -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/15/2005 10:34:17 PM)
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 -> RE: What Game Stole the most hours when it was Brand New (11/16/2005 2:12:39 AM)
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)

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