The Best Computer Game of All Time?

[Wanker]

Ok, let's take a stroll down memory lane. Give us the game that floored you, made you give up sleep for days or weeks at a time, or otherwise helped you forget your troubles and totally immersed you in it's world.

My vote goes to....

X-COM: UFO Defense (1994)

What a game! Defending the earth from aliens, what could be more rewarding? It had it all: Strategic depth, a strong tactical aspect, good graphics, very effective sounds, characters that you cared about and cried when they died. You could even name your characters(I named all mine after porn stars).

One of the few games I ever played all the way through to the end. Close runners up would be 1991's Civilization and the original Red Baron.

[Saurdaukar]

1.)  Civilization

2.)  Half-Life

3.)  Sim City

[Makarov9]

Agreed banana, XCOM-UFO Defense has to be one of my all time favorites. Heck even my wife (girlfriend at time game came out) loved the game. She particularly liked the cute little Sectoids, and the neat sound they made when ya blasted them.

I hope the next XCOM they are working on will be very similar to the old one, with just enhanced graphics.

[gofaster]

When I was in college, I worked for JC Penneys in a mall and I would spend my lunch money on a slice of pizza, then blow the coins on "Star Wars" that ran on one of those sit-down enclosures with dark tinted glass and speakers mounted behind the seat.  The game was a slow-seller for the arcade so it was pushed back into a corner where nobody hardly went.  It was like having my own private X-Wing fighter.  

I've never experienced that much bliss in a video game since, though I did come close the first time I played "Hornet" on a buddy's Apple II - my first taste of an at-home flight simulator.  I went home that night and began my campaign for a computer.  When I finally got one, the first piece of software I bought was "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" which came with 3 other games (can't recall their names but I think one of them had to do with SEAL teams).

[Hawklore]

I remembe X-com, I think I still got it around some where..oh man..never got too far..

[midnight Target]

Asteriods...

[Maniac]

Ya, X-com hits right up there by the best games ever!

Heres an trip down memory lane! School Daze on C64! someone here has to have played that

Wing Commander 1 also was revolutionary hehe! theres lots really...

[Nifty]

hehe, I preferred X-Com: Terror From the Deep over UFO Defense, even though the underwater "physics" were pretty lame.   Mind control was fun, and evil when done on you.  lol.

Even so, I'd say Wing Commander was my fav computer game of all time.  Followed by Civ.  Daggerfall gets honorable mention.  That game was just soooo cool, especially becoming a werewolf or vampire.  The quest to cure your lycanthropy was terrible.  You had to do something completely dispicable to rid yourself of the disease.  Thankfully, it was just a game!  

Oh yeah, gofaster, I plunked lots of quarters into that wire framed Star Wars game.  Definitely one of my all time favs for quarter driven games, along with Space Ace and Cyberball.  

[Horn]

Karateka on a IIe.


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and Tetris.

[Maniac]

This is an English all-boys school with a difference. You play Eric, our hero, who must defend himself from all that school has to offer, lines, snooty teachers, bullies and have his own fun of course. This works pretty much like a normal school. You have recess and lunchtime where the students are free to do their own thing, provided they stay out of classrooms and staff rooms, this is of course when students are most likely to pick on each other. When the bell rings a subject and class room indicator will appear in the box at the bottom of the screen and you are expected to attend, if you choose not to and are caught you will be given lines. Features of the game include being able to write on the classroom blackboards during recess or before a teacher gets to class, this however will incur a punishment if you are caught or 'dobbed' in by another student, being able to knock out other students with your fists and also jumping up and down in front of someone you dislike with your finger (you know which one) in the air. My favorite though is the peashooter. You can knock over any student tall enough with this but be warned they can do it straight back and the teachers don't particularly like seeing their students on the floor "LINES!!!". Teachers themselves can also be knocked over, you are even encouraged to do this as shown by the various shields on the roof. If you can time it well enough you can knock a teacher over, and bounce another pea off their head while they're down activating a shield directly above them and giving you extra points. Just for goodness sake don't let any teacher see you while doing ANY of the above, they don't take too kindly to it, and after too many lines you are asked to leave, which I feel is just a nice way of saying "expulsion".

An whole whooping 30 KB download! i djust love GOOGLE!

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ROFLMAD!

Yes im drunk today

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by banana
Ok, let's take a stroll down memory lane. Give us the game that floored you, made you give up sleep for days or weeks at a time, or otherwise helped you forget your troubles and totally immersed you in it's world.

My vote goes to....

X-COM: UFO Defense (1994)

What a game! Defending the earth from aliens, what could be more rewarding? It had it all: Strategic depth, a strong tactical aspect, good graphics, very effective sounds, characters that you cared about and cried when they died. You could even name your characters(I named all mine after porn stars).

One of the few games I ever played all the way through to the end. Close runners up would be 1991's Civilization and the original Red Baron.

I worked with a guy in Tooling at the time that was single and took all 3 weeks of his vacation off just to play that game 18 hours each day...thats ALL he did on his vacation, Get up, play Xcom, eat, ****, play Xcom, **** again, play more, eat, sleep 6 hours, rinse...repeat.

[Maniac]

Elite!

[Maniac]

Last Ninja! LOL!!!!

[midnight Target]

Who is old enough to remember that quarter run football game with the big ball you spun to make your guy run faster?  Used to be a real hoot after several beers.

[Pongo]

Harpoon II