# What games have you been addicted to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 4, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508 "2004-07-04T17:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/41 "2004-07-06T00:15:54Z")
Fellow Sims junkie checking in. I generally go in spurts when I play constantly for a couple of months, then back off, then come back. I also get addicted to free word games on msn and yahoo. Right now it’s Word Mojo. For awhile it was Text Twist and Word Racer. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/42 "2004-07-06T00:34:52Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > I’m a 53 level dwarven warrior (female), Master of Voln, Warrior Guild Master (master of tackle and warcries), and feared throughout the lands because of my feather collection, which I use to tickle helpless folks… Yes… I successfully made it thru about 10 or 12 levels of Voln, and (I think) retired my character at 16th level. I started just after the “conversion” and retired just after AOL went flat rate. You were probably higher level than I was, then… I went on vacation for two weeks, and the “addiction” waned. And then I couldn’t get on AOL’s dialup for another couple of weeks. When I finally went back, my character’s stats had decayed to the point where he was “useless,” so I just gave all my stuff to a friend who still plays, FAIK… her character was a Warrior named Genevieve. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/43 "2004-07-06T00:42:27Z")
Another Civ III nut checking in. Jeez, that game killed so much I could have been doing with my life! Between that and Tropico, my computer game fantasy life was filled. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/44 "2004-07-06T01:20:53Z")
I can’t seem to maintain obsession about more than one at a time, so at different times Spades on MSN, Warcraft II, Literati on Yahoo, Scrabble, Boggle, and Freecell against the computer, Sims, and Payday Freecell on the AOL games more recently. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/45 "2004-07-06T07:21:01Z")
Yeti Sports, [Dave the Worm](http://www.ice13.com/worm/), Acrophobia (I won’t bother to link… it’s not the same anymore), Myst/Riven (can’t find the CDs right now, and it’s SUMMER!!!). That’s all that comes to mind right now. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/46 "2004-07-06T13:43:32Z")
CIVII… One more turn… One more turn… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/47 "2004-07-06T18:35:50Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > … Acrophobia (I won’t bother to link… it’s not the same anymore) … my sentiments exactly, yet it looks to be the same game, what’s wrong with it? the horrible pop-ups? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/48 "2004-07-06T19:21:24Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > _SimCity 3000_: I think 4’s better, but then I’m a little biased. Still, SC3K is the one videogame that I have literally spent an entire day playing. I got up at 8 AM one day, started up a new city, played through lunch, played through dinner, and finally stopped when I’d literally run out of room in the city and it was making over a couple million simoleons a year in profit. At that point it was around 8:30 the next morning. Unfortunately Simcity 4 gets rid of that pesky “no more room” thing that tells me when to stop playing. None of the sequals ever matched my addiction to the original Civ game. X-Com kept me awake many a night. Many an afternoon was spent battling online with Age of Empire II I refuse to play any of that online Everquest shit or the Sims since I need to work for a living. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/49 "2004-07-06T19:33:36Z")
D2 and D2: LOD, for a fair amount of time. I only started playing because I became a “D2 widow” when all my friends got sucked in. I did too. For the past 2 years it’s been Dark Age of Camelot for me. I’ll play it nonstop for months, then take a month or so off, then go back to it in cycles. Man it’s a lot of work, but I love that game to death. So much so that I’ve grabbed a few Dopers and sucked them into my guild. (I’m Amaravasa Das on Guinivere, GL of the Skulls if anyone’s out there playing!) ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/50 "2004-07-06T20:19:14Z")
Everquest most recently. I quit in February after 2 years. Civ3 before that and now I’m drifting back to Civ3 😃 I get addicted to games easily. Mostly RPG like the AD&D Gold box series and Ultima, but also Starflight, Starcraft, Civ 1,2,3 etc ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/51 "2004-07-06T20:20:00Z")
I have been addicted to Magic: the GAthering since I found out about it in the 9th grade. I even managed to stop playing it for 4 years, but now I’m back off the wagon. Cardboard Crack I tell you! I also play entirely too much Diablo II: LOD and I have been known to spend hour and hours playing Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. Previously I have been ruled by Age of Kings and Mythology, Starcraft, Unreal Tournament and Quake II. Final Fantasy I and X. Secret of Mana. Tekken 3. Perfect Dark and Bond. Probably some others that are best left burried lest I play them again. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508/52 "2004-07-06T20:20:25Z")
Right now- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. I’d played it for about six hours in the past but then kind of gave up on it, because I couldn’t find any decent weapons. Then I fired it up recently and found the weapon shop (right next to the item shop :smack: ). Great game. Recently- Deception III: Dark Delusion. Killing people with traps rarely gets old. Even when you figure out the really, really abusive trap combos. Once and future- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I’ve got both the US and Japanese versions now, and if I could I’d get a Saturn and hunt down the other version. It’s just the best Castlevania ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-have-you-been-addicted-to/253508.md?page=2)