What was your first game that made you lose track of time?

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Every Tony Hawk game until American Wasteland. All the others sucked after that.

So now I just play Skate when I can.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

Fallout 3 was my first bit of game crack, and I've since moved on to binging on Halo 3, Call of Duty WaW and Most Recently Red Dead Redemption

 

[Doctor Polaris]

When my sister and I were kids, we once missed the school bus because we were playing a co-op game of Twisted Metal 2 for the Playstation.

KOTOR, Fallout 3, and, to a lesser extent, Oblivion were the three most recent games to make me lose track of time. I've beat Fallout 3 twice already and logged over 200 hours into it and I still find myself somewhat addicted to it - I spent nearly 4 hours in a row playing it a few nights ago.

 

[quantum mechanic]

Myst. Bad thing to get into on a school night.

 

[NonyaZ]

My first game ever, Starcraft. (I'm young... )

Stayed up for hours and hours playing that game.

 

[PayneTrayne]

Pokemon Red/Blue, I spent so much time on those when I was a kid it was absolutely stupid.

 

[ars731]

The Legend Of Zelda The Ocarina Of Time. I played that game straight for 3 months. it also would suck hours of my life away at a time

 

[a stranger]

Pokemon Red was the first to suck away hours from my life, hell any Pokemon game well suck hours away from my life.

 

[Nyce1]

Final Fantasy VII the whole game took up my senior year of high school and somehow I finished it and graduated. But its all a blur and I am still unsure if my diploma > or = to beating the game!

 

[Irridium]

Civilization 3.

Started at 5PM
Next time I checked the clock it was 9AM.

Longest binge I've done. But it was totally worth it.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Insane marathons of Pokemon Blue version...
I tend to focus in on whatever I'm doing, to an extreme level when I was younger. If I was playing that thing, my parents could talk to me for half an hour and I'd never even know they were in the room.

this all the way, my parents would have whole conversations and would walk out and then 3 hours later be like "why the fuck haven't you done what i told you to do?!?!" and im thinking "uhh...wut?"

except for it was pokemon yellow.

if i was actually into something, as in concentrating, there could be a screeching cat getting beaten to death across the room and i would never notice.

 

[Lord Devius]

...my first time playing Golden Sun:

Ooh, this game looks fun. Oh, RPG, cool. Elements strong against each other, uh huh...
-17 hours later-
*yawn* Oh, crap, it's 5am. ....*continues playing*

I think I got up to the Tolbi tournament in one sitting. Repeated the feat with The Lost Age when I finally got it. Got to around the first bit with the boat in one sitting.

...Haven't done something like that since 7th grade.

....I also fought the final boss of The Lost Age with an underleveled party for a good hour and a half, in one go. Danced like a fool when I won.

 

[Amerikhan]

Streets of Rage or Pokemon Red... good times.

 

[Gnarynhar]

Either Dungeons of Doom or the original black and white Sim City.

 

[Amerikhan]

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, War Craft 2 and Civ II all get honorable mentions as well. Fun stuff.

 

[kannibus]

I'm sure this'll be reaching waaaay back into the collective memory of all ya'll here, but the game that first sucked away my time was Rebel Assault. I kept getting stuck on the fourth "training" mission and just had to beat it. Yeah that's pretty sad.

 

[kajinking]

Stronghold 2. I played for over 7 hours without ever realizing it.