Your most addictive games...

[phoenix1967]

What are the games you got the most addicted to?

I've enjoyed many RPGs through a couple of playthroughs, but I'm not inclined to be that addicted to them throughout.

I tend to get drawn into turn-based strategy, so the first game the totally hooked me in was M.U.L.E. on the old Atari 800 computer. It was later ported to the NES. It was here that my addiction to resource-management, turn based strategy games started.

Now, I'm feeling that same level of addictiveness with Sid Meier's Civ Revolution. They nailed the resource building, combat, and strategy...and giving it a board game feel. Imo, he's got another hit franchise. There's a lot of potential should he have a sequel/expansion as well.

[Tan]

Demon Attack, Tetris DX, Age of Empires II, Snood, Silent Service, Astro Warrior & Doom II. There are a few others but these ones are still played heavily, sometimes in marathon fashion even now. Not necessarily my favorite games, but they sure tug at my time and attention.

[modest9797]

Dead Rising.  I probobly logged at least 200 hours on that game in the first month.

[BadEnoughDude]

The last game I really played a lot of was Puzzle Quest for DS, but it eventually got far too frustrating and repetitive. Outside of that, there's really not a lot that I have played regularly.

[Tondog]

Super Stardust HD is amazingly addictive.

[phoenix1967]

Dead Rising.  I probobly logged at least 200 hours on that game in the first month.

I was convinced to buy it (traded in some stuff) after playing the demo for it. Started getting into it and decided to stop because I could definitely see its addictive quality.

200 hours! How many times have you played through? Did you get all 1000 achievement points?

[atari_wizard]

Pitfall II - Lost Caverns (Atari 2600) & The New Tetris (N64) are mine. I am still addicted to both. I'm beginning to get hooked on Mario Kart Wii.

[Mr. Ksoft]

It seems like Tetris (in any form on any console) is the only game that can constantly bring me back almost every week for years.  I've played Tetris that much ever since I got my first Tetris game, Tetris Plus, on the Game Boy back in... 1998 or so.  Nothing else even comes close to the amount of time I've played that game.

[Game Freak]

Arcade:
Marble Madness
Zookeeper
Tapper
Addams Family Pinball

Atari 2600 (none)

TRS-80: Dungeons of Daggorath

NES:
Contra
Gauntlet
Zelda II

Sega Genesis: None

SNES:
Tetris Attack
Donkey Kong Country 2
Yoshi's Island
Top Gear
SimCity (very addicting)
Lemmings
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dreamland 3

N64:
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Pokemon Snap
Super Mario 64
Pokemon Stadium 2
Majora's Mask

GCN:
Zelda: The Wind Waker
the Resident Evil series
Animal Crossing
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

WII:
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Zelda: Twilight Princess

PS1/PS2:
Ape Escape 1&2
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
ICO
Shadow of the Collossus
MetropolisMania
Dark Cloud
Ace Combat 4/5

PC:
3D Ultra Lionel Traintown
SimCity 4
RollerCoaster Tycoon
The Sims

Game Boy (any):
Pokemon (RBYGSCRSE)
Zelda
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (aka Tetris Attack)

Nintendo DS:
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Elite Beat Agents
Lost in Blue
Mario Kart DS
Kirby in The Canvas Curse


just to name a few...sorry but i dont have many good genesis games...Sonic 1 and 3 are boring to me because of the difficulty factor they pose on some levels.  I also dont have many NES games, and there are lots of PS1 games i have yet to play...

[logical123]

Arcade:
Marble Madness
Zookeeper
Tapper
Addams Family Pinball

Atari 2600 (none)

TRS-80: Dungeons of Daggorath

NES:
Contra
Gauntlet
Zelda II

Sega Genesis: None

SNES:
Tetris Attack
Donkey Kong Country 2
Yoshi's Island
Top Gear
SimCity (very addicting)
Lemmings
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dreamland 3

N64:
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Pokemon Snap
Super Mario 64
Pokemon Stadium 2
Majora's Mask

GCN:
Zelda: The Wind Waker
the Resident Evil series
Animal Crossing
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

WII:
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Zelda: Twilight Princess

PS1/PS2:
Ape Escape 1&2
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
ICO
Shadow of the Collossus
MetropolisMania
Dark Cloud
Ace Combat 4/5

PC:
3D Ultra Lionel Traintown
SimCity 4
RollerCoaster Tycoon
The Sims

Game Boy (any):
Pokemon (RBYGSCRSE)
Zelda
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (aka Tetris Attack)

Nintendo DS:
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Elite Beat Agents
Lost in Blue
Mario Kart DS
Kirby in The Canvas Curse


just to name a few...sorry but i dont have many good genesis games...Sonic 1 and 3 are boring to me because of the difficulty factor they pose on some levels.  I also dont have many NES games, and there are lots of PS1 games i have yet to play...

Uh oh... Someone's a Nintendo fanboy! Just kidding!

I'll have to say Pokemon Gold with about 117 hours logged (that cart has gone missing  ) and SA2:B with about 40-70 hours logged (My original save file was deleted, I had almost all A's and was only missing like 5 emblems).

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

WoW...

[phoenix1967]

Tapper in the Arcade...I forgot all about that one! Gotta be the Budweiser machine, though. That was the only arcade game that I ever mastered.

I thought of another console game. Turn based strategy again. Master of Monsters on the Genesis.

[Fuyukaze]

Atari 2600-
Megamenia
Yar's Revenge

NES-
Zanac
Guardian Legend

Sega Master System-
Cloud Master

Super NES-
Lufia 1
FFVI
Ogre Battle

Genesis-
Fire Shark

Nintendo 64-
Sin & Punishment
Ogre Battle

Saturn-
Donpachi
DoDonpachi
Magic Knight Rayearth
Galatic Attack

Playstation 1-
Valkryie Profile
Persona
Brigindine
Lufia
Harvest Moon

Playstation 2-
R-Type Final
FFXII (will beat some day)
Gradius III/IV

Dreamcast-
Metropolis Street Racer
Tokyo Extreme Racer 2
Mars Matrix
Rez
Sakura Wars
Skies of Arcadia
Space Channel 5
Samba De Amigo

Gamecube-
Resident Evil 4
Fire Emblem: Path or Radience

Wii-
Baroque
Fire Emblem
Zelda:Twilight Princess
No More Heros
Castle Shikigami III

X-Box-
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Vollyball (fan service #1!)
Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2
Phantom Crash
Phantom Dust

TG-16-
Blazing Lasers
Side Arms
Alien Crush

Gameboy-
Testris
Great Greed

Gameboy Color-
Dragon Warrior anything

Gameboy Advance-
Astro Boy
Castlevania anything
Golden Sun 1 and 2
Fire Emblem 1 and 2

Nintendo DS-
Pokemon Pearl
Contact
Etrian Odyssey 1 and 2
Worms 2 (wonderfull multi player game)
Harvest Moon

Game Gear-
Shining Force

[Cobra]

Snatcher
Never kept track of how much time I poured into it but made it through I think a total of 23 times before retiring it. Despite this, every play though I found something new I hadn't seen the time before.

[NESman93]

NES-
Super Mario Bros. 1, 3
Contra
Tetris
Dr. Mario
Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Excitebike

SNES-
Tetris&Dr. Mario
Super Mario World
Donkey Kong Country
Space Invaders
Ms. Pac-Man

Sega Genesis-
Paperboy
Ms. Pac-Man

Atari 2600-
Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Mario Bros.

Game Boy-
Tetris
Super Mario Land
Donkey Kong

Game Boy Color-
Super Mario Deluxe

Game Boy Advance-
Donkey Kong
Super Mario Bros. (classic nes series & Famicom Mini Series)
Donkey Kong (classic nes series)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Famicom Mini Series)
Legend of Zelda (classic nes series & Famicom Mini Series)
Legend of Zelda 2 (classic nes series & Famicom Mini Series)
Pac-Man (classic nes series & Famicom Mini Series)
Excitebike (classic nes series & Famicom Mini Series)
Namco Museum
Metroid (classic nes series & Famicom Mini Series)

Nintendo DS-
Namco Museum DS (especially Galaga)
Tetris DS

Arcade-
Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac-man plus
Donkey Kong
Centipede
Asteroids
Galaga