video game addicts (not)anonymous

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What are the most addictive games you've ever played? We're talking anything from solitaire to 3D first-person shooters.

-- Anonymous, June 13, 2000

Answers

Anything with the word Sim in it seems to have a firm grasp on me.

I had a great Sim family last month consisting of Princess Di, one of the *N Sync boys, and Shannen Doherty dressed as a dominatrix.
Princess Di bought *N Sync boy's love, and then I forced them all into a completely nasty triangel. Eventually, Princess Di couldn't hack it and got out her little hobo stick and left.

I was really hoping that Shannen would have left.

I also cheat *a lot* on the Sim games, because I like to make the big fancy houses and the ultra-hip cities.

I also gett addicted to the Age of Empires stuff when it forst comes out. I play it for about a month and then go back to Simming.

-- Anonymous, June 13, 2000


I love Age of Empires and the Sims. I keep going back to Diablo, though. Hey, Keli, what's the money cheat code for the Sims? I never wrote it down when everyone was passing it around at Hissyfit. My main Sim (Veronica Suarez) has already advanced through several careers. I'm tired of her now that I realized I don't want her to be married, though.

I also love puzzle/logic/whatever games. But I only play them for so long before I get burned out and move on. For a while Microsoft Puzzle Pack was my life's work. Now I have "The Next Tetris" but it's not as exciting as it was back in the day, for some reason.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000


klapaucius !!!
I have no idea what that word means, but as long as it keeps giving me money, I'll keep typing it.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000

Another vote for the Sims. For a few months there it was all I wanted to do. And I am by no means a gamer, but my boyfriend brought it home one day and I was smitten.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000

Tetris is forever, but more recently I've loved Snood and Croc. When I was little, my brother and I used to play Super Mario Brothers 1 & 3 (2 was really aesthetically unpleasing and I couldn't get into it at all), the first Sonic the Hedgehog game and Duck Tales obsessively.

I'll make my husband come here and post, since he has about ten thousand arcade game emulators on his machine and is also a console nut.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000



In addition to the ones mentioned above, I've been addicted to Ballistic (for the Playstation), Tetrisphere (for the N64), Tekken 3 and Time Crisis (both for the PS). Last summer I went through a phase of being addicted to shareware mah jongg, but once I'd beat Glark's time record -- and I mean REALLY slaughtered it -- the thrill was gone.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000

I'm addicted to FreeCell. How lame is that?

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000

Does anyone remember a game called JazzBall that came with Windows95? I think my brother and I called it 'JizzBall,' but as no one else seems to remember the existence of such a game, I'm thinking maybe I invented it or something.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000

I love love love love my little Sims. So far, I haven't started masterminding depraved little realities for my little Sims families. I mostly dig building new houses. The last house I built was a design I came up with at the age of 9 (house built over swimming pool) and before that I used a floorplan from Country Living Magazine (it rocks). BTW, if you get the Sims upgrade, the money cheat changes to "rosebud". I also have spent many hours with Jetforce Gemini, Zelda and 007 for Nintendo 64, and I spanked both Myst and Riven and would love to see another sequel. Rollercoaster Tycoon is a kick, but only for a little while.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000

Freecell's not lame. God knows I was addicted to it for more than a year at one time.

Laura, do you use the photo-album function to preserve the memories of your houses? I'd love to see the one over the pool. I haven't figured out how to transfer those files, though. Maybe you could make your own site to show them off.

Jackie, y'all invented a game called Jizz Ball? That's so nasty!

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000



Gwen: I just started playing with the camera feature in Sims. As in real life, I forget to take pictures. But they do have the Sims Exchange Teleportation patch thingie at www.thesims.com and I guess I could download that and upload my house-over-pool. I'd love to have my own website, too...but haven't had enough fascinating content to build one yet. Hmmm. Maybe this will be an inspiration (I LOVE your forum!) The bummer about my pool house is I couldn't incorporate some kickin' elements I thought of as a child: bridge that goes to spiral staircase that comes up from center of pool to house above...viewing windows in floor of house with hollowed-out areas in wood floor for laying on tummy and watching people in the pool...and the best feature -- a fireman's pole that is accessible from the house...you slide down it and land on big inner tubes slightly submerged in pool. I also thought of a slide from house to water. I modified the design as dictated the the restrictions of the Sims game...and my family (Chap & Patty Snappy) seem to dig it pretty much. I'll work on uploading the house somehow during my next Sims marathon session!

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2000

I don't do too much with video games, although I enjoy Tetris and FreeCell.

But I'm the queen of lame: back in the Jurassic Era, I used to play Centipede at the bar I went to. I loved, loved, loved that game, and my initials were all over the "high score" board. I was so good the guys I knew (macho Air Force pilot-types) refused to play against me. I wasted many an hour zapping bugs and drinking margaritas.

Ah, the sweet days of youth.

-- Anonymous, June 15, 2000

I don't play as many games as I used to, largely because I have a tendency to get fixated on a particular game and lose weeks of my time. Also, I don't have as much free time as I used to.

Some of the games I have been addicted to are: FreeCell, Minesweeper (don't even try to beat my best times), any Mario Bros. games I could get my hands on, Crash Bandicoot, X-Com (the original), Caesar 2, Age of Empires 1 & 2, Diablo and any Sim-type games. I didn't get too bad with The Sims. I went a little crazy the fist week I owned it, but I haven't played since.



-- Anonymous, June 15, 2000

I miss console games. I was never very good at them, but I loved watching the boys play and hearing the sounds.

-- Anonymous, June 15, 2000

My husband has been playing Ridge Racer every moment that no Euro2000 soccer matches aren't going on, and if I hear that guy on the game say, "This is gonna be a GREAT race!" one more time, I will surely go mad.

Or, sit here and plot to destroy the cartridge.

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2000



I lost two full weeks of my life when I first got The Sims. (I was working at home, and lost any semblance of discipline.)

Now I check in on them about once a week, but the romance is over, baby.

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2000


I love Freecell. I'm not addicted to it though. I used to be addicted to Tetris until we moved and I lost it. I was the Tetris queen.

Anybody remember the old Atari adventure games? I'd love to get my hands on one of those...

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2000


Now, thanks to Jackie, I'm addicted to Snoods. (www.snoods.com)

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2000

D'oh. I meant www.snood.com, not snoods. And I'm STILL working on that darned thing. I'm trying to pass the 22nd puzzle level.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000

Has anybody played that Seaman game? It's a console game, dreamcast or nintendo or something. I'm getting way too attached to it.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000

When Tetris first came out, I would sit there for hours playing it. I even had dreams about it.

I suck at most games but I'm pretty good at Pokemon pinball on GameBoy

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000


Any of those pattern-recognition/matchy games, I love. Tetris, Jewelbox, Chrysanthemum, etc. Rock!

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000

Jazzball. And i still want to play it, but i cant find it anyplace.

-- Anonymous, October 25, 2000

I just found this game review site called ESCmag. I like it because they give nice, long, detailed reviews and they were incredibly honest about Panty Raider. The guy who runs it is super nice, too. I told him I'd post on the forum a bit, because it's new and still kind of empty.

I think it's good for women to speak their minds about their likes and dislikes when it comes to video games. Don't y'all?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2000


What is Panty Raider?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2000

Some stupid-ass game about animated chicks in panties.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2000

It was called "Jezzball," although you can find it here:

http://informatix.home.ro/eng/fun.html

As JAZZBALL :-)

Cheers

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000


I'm totally addicted to Freecell. My dad just gave me a laptop, and I was like oh, great, I'm going to get all this writing done at home now, without the distraction of the internet (which is my excuse for not getting any writing done during downtime at work). Yeah right. I play Freecell like five hours a night now.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000

Hear hear! My wife loves Freecell, almost always wins at it, and I suck at it. I'm hooked on the Klondike version of Solitaire, also available on Windows computers and, those bastards, on my Palm Vx. I can play that for hours on end, also. Diabolical!

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000

When the James Bond came out on Nintendo a couple of years ago it was all we ever did. Then it was Heroes III, Sims, Age of Empires ooh, I love games.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000

I have the highest score on Pokemon pinball for Gameboy.

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2000

Gwen, my whole family spent all of Thanksgiving playing Snood on my grandmother's computer.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

POKEMON PINBALL IS SHIT AND I COULD THRASH YOU AT IT BITCH!

Dear John Patrick-Sherry (jeeps@sherryj.fsnet.co.uk),

Thank you for sending me the above email. It was very kind of you to send it to me and if you do email me again, I can report you to your ISP. Isn't the internet wonderful? Now run along and play with your Barbies.

-- Anonymous, December 23, 2000


Shelly, he'd just THRASH you at Barbies too.

-- Anonymous, December 26, 2000

scrnwrt -- now that's the kind of love I'm talking about.

-- Anonymous, December 27, 2000

where can i download Jezzball?

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

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