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

[Nouw]

Starcraft 2 and Combat Arms. Dawn Of War as well. Not sure for the first one... Maple Story?

 

[Jake the Snake]

Pokemon Yellow. Jesus Christ, did I play that game a lot.

 

[Gonswell]

probably monster hunter freedom 2/unite. that game just destroyed time. me and my friend would start playing at 8 PM, have some fun, do a couple of quests, and next thing we know:"hey, why is it so light outside?" lost so many hours to that game.

 

[Robby Foxfur]

Guild wars i seriously got lost in it 1 night questing and having fun with friends from 6 pm till 8 am the next morning, the only reason i stopped is the sun started to shine on my face.

 

[Michael Dagastino]

Fallout 3 is the closest I have got to loosing track of time in a game.

But it is so easy for me to use up hours of my day reading Artemis Fowl books on my iPhone!

Good book series!

OT: Almost every game that i have played that isn't the following: Too Human, Super Mario 1+2, Army of Two (and TFD), Halo 3, CoD 4 and later (as of sept 2nd, 2010), and Scott Pilgrim vs the World: the game

 

[Mordekaien]

For me it was Zelda: Link to the past on GB and Fallout 2 on PC. From the newer ones I got lost in the first Neverwinter Nights.

 

[Kortney]

Morrowind when I was about 12.

 

[Liham]

Age of empires 3, took the computer to my room.
came out for a pee brake and was informed it was 5 hours later.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, closely followed by hours spent losing at Megaman X. Both when I was five years old.

 

[Hansliszt]

ff7

 

[McAster]

First game to ever really make me lose track of time? Escape Velocity on my Apple something or other.

Trade routes, finding the shortest warp paths, buying low and selling high random items, threatening pirate planets so they would send ships out for me to defeat and board. I loved that game and easily lost track of time.

Fortunately, though at times my inner child wishes it was still true, I never let games take over like that. Moderation in all things.

 

[kintaris]

Fallout 3 more than Oblivion to me. Something about Fallout's mood and atmospheric music that lulls me into a dream state so I don't really need to sleep. I emerge from Fallout feeling oddly rested.

Oblivion, on the other hand, starts to grate on me after a few hours (even though I love the game). The repetitiveness, the terrible dialogue and stuttering load times all just break the flow and give me a chance to look at the clock.

Civilsation is the worst because I keep telling myself 'I'll just end this turn and then save and quit'. But of course hitting 'end turn' is the same as starting the next turn - i.e., a whole lot of shit goes down that I don't want to forget to deal with. And so 10 turns later I'm thinking, wait, wasn't I quitting?

 

[Kramcake2516]

Alex The kidd god i think i lost like 3 years to that lol dont think id be able to play it for 2 mins now.

 

[Skeptic]

The very first would be Super Mario Land 2 on Game Boy when I was like 8 or 9. On the more serious note, that would be Morrowind. When I first got it, real life ceased to exist for some two weeks.

 

[danintexas]

Everquest. I still don't remember much from 1999 to 2001