Not sure you need to separate them out like that. A game is a game is a game.
X-Wing: Collector's Edition CD-ROM.
X-Wing: Collector's Edition CD-ROM.
Nice.
X-Wing: Collector's Edition CD-ROM.
Probably owing to my age at the time, I found X-Wing impenetrable. I don’t think I ever beat the first mission. Which thinking about it now is kinda odd since I’d definitely already played a few Wing Commander games. Maybe I just couldn’t handle the power management stuff.
That’s funny, because I played the hell out of X-Wing and TIE Fighter, disk and CD versions, but could not figure out Wing Commander at all.
Grenn wrote:X-Wing: Collector's Edition CD-ROM.
Probably owing to my age at the time, I found X-Wing impenetrable. I don’t think I ever beat the first mission. Which thinking about it now is kinda odd since I’d definitely already played a few Wing Commander games. Maybe I just couldn’t handle the power management stuff.
Don't feel bad, the original X-Wing could be brutal at times.
Everquest for sure. What game until then had you camping a rare spawn 24x7 setting alarms to drive home from work to check to see if it spawned?
There were numerous games I spent lots of time with as a kid - Defender of the Crown, M.U.L.E, Dragon Warrior, The Legend of Zelda, and others. The first one to truly dominate my gaming time was Sid Meier's Pirates! on the c64 though. I spent a crazy amount of my young life playing that game - either at home or on my friend's c128 after school. Also learned quite a lot of geography and history of the Carribean through it, and the included map and handbook let my imagination run free. Could I captured the Silver Train around lake Maracaibo in the middle of picking off Treasure Fleet galleons one more time, or would I fail and be thrown in prison again? Only one way to find out!
I think for me it is also Sid Meier's Pirates! on my C64.
I also really loved the map that came with the game. I had it up on my wall for the longest time.
As a side note, when I fly in MS Flight Simulator I tend to keep flying from the last place I landed. My current tour took me from Florida, all the way around the Caribbean, and now I'm back at Lake Maracaibo.
Probably the original Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on the Apple II. I never actually beat it but my brother and I spent hours and hours carefully mapping out levels, and I don't know how many times I read the manual.
And then once I learned about the bugs/cheats for the bishop class identifying non-existent items '9' (instant 100,000,000 XP!) and 'j' (instant 100,000,000 gold for the character next in the roster!), I spent a heck of a lot of time creating bishops, getting tons of XP and gold, then arming myself with the best equipment available and beating the crap out of all the random encounters. Or, changing class to the ninja and doing the same, unarmed.
I say 'instant' but really you had to keep identifying the items repeatedly until the bug triggered. Of course, the massive amounts of gold I injected into the economy broke the shop and things ended up being listed for ludicrously high prices, but it was lots of fun!
Lot of classics being listed on this thread.
I think my first obsession (that I can clearly remember) was probably SimCity 2000. There were plenty of games I'd played before that, and probably some stuff that might also count, but I definitely remember pouring over the SimCity 2000 manual.
Another one might come to me if I keep thinking about it.
Yah, Populous and Sim City were serious time suckers.
Anybody remember Hugo's House of Horrors? But really it was 100% Ultima Online in 1998 that was waiting for me when I finished high school and was allowed to waste soooo much more time.
I used screenshots from Warcraft 2 for grade 6 assignments in 1996. Does that count?
If I think of the game that sucked an unholy amount of dollars and time from me, it's FFXI Online. This was seriously a second job. I'd build spreadsheets with recipes, ingredient prices, and sales histories. Fight with real money traders trying to reverse engineer their reserve prices on the auction house. Go farming mobs and random pop bosses when NA/EU were asleep and before Japan came online on the server. I made so much currency in-game I gave half of my bank to my brother who promptly spent it on the best gear Gil could buy. I felt like the Wolf of Wall Street 
5 years of subscription, unsubbing a few weeks before semester finals to avoid failing university. Running from family dinners to log just a few extra minutes in before bedtime.
Oh, I also met my wife courtesy to FFXI so it holds a special place in my gaming hall of fame.
Anybody remember Hugo's House of Horrors? But really it was 100% Ultima Online in 1998 that was waiting for me when I finished high school and was allowed to waste soooo much more time.
I only saw Hugo's House of Horrors in two places: shareware catalogs and in the computer lab at the community college (where they had the computer summer camp).
Given the circumstances, I didn't get particularly far in it.
I spent far too long on Elite on the Spectrum whilst trying to study for some professional exams, great to see the screenshots so many years later. That was the main one, but shout outs to The Hobbit, Kevin Toms Football Manager and Avalon on the same Spectrum.
Tunnels of Doom on the TI994a.
I think for me it is also Sid Meier's Pirates! on my C64.
I also really loved the map that came with the game. I had it up on my wall for the longest time.
As a side note, when I fly in MS Flight Simulator I tend to keep flying from the last place I landed. My current tour took me from Florida, all the way around the Caribbean, and now I'm back at Lake Maracaibo.
Sid Meier's Pirates! was a favorite too. Honestly, I still replay that from time to time, especially the mid 2000s updated version.
Diablo. Our university campus was fully wired that year (1997), and there was a set of us that played unhealthy amounts of DI. Skip classes, avoid people, forget to eat, call each other at 3am to do a corpse run unhealthy. It was glorious.
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