Best Just-one-more-turn Game Ever

[Celeval]

Civ series (all 3)
CM/FM
FOF/TCY

[WSUCougar]

You know the kind I mean. The look-up-and-it's-4:00 a.m. games, where your leg muscles have atrophied because you've been cemented into your computer chair for God-knows how long.

1. Heroes of Might & Magic III
2. Imperialism II
3. Civ II

P.S. No RTS allowed. This is strictly a turn-based phenomenon.

[rexallllsc]

cm3 (I think 01-02) did that for me. Twice I can remember being up until 6am, and seeing the sun come up when I had to be at work in 3 hours.

CounterStrike did it for a while.

[albionmoonlight]

1.) Civ 2
2.) FOF2 (does "just one more season" count?)

[st.cronin]

For me it's definitely TCY. That game is evil.

[Desnudo]

1. Football Manager
2. Championship Manager
3. Master of Orion 2

[SackAttack]

You know the kind I mean. The look-up-and-it's-4:00 a.m. games, where your leg muscles have atrophied because you've been cemented into your computer chair for God-knows how long.

1. Heroes of Might & Magic III

You might be interested to know that Heroes of Might & Magic V is coming in early 2006, courtesy of UbiSoft.

Thought I'd pass that along.

[WSUCougar]

3. Master of Orion 2
That'd be my #4...

[condors]

1-cm/fm series (cm98 if i was nailed to 1)
2-fof series (fof orginal if i was nailed to 1)
3-civ series (alpha centuri if i had to pick 1)

homm and moo get honarable mention (2nd in both series was the one i played most)

wasteland, autoduel, wizardry, bards tale and the ssi gold box games

[Blackadar]

1. Civ 1 and 2
2. HOMM 2 and 3
3. Masters of Magic (MoM)

[Franklinnoble]

Civ II
Civ III
FOF
TCY
Oh, and there was a hot dog stand sim on the Apple IIe that I was totally hooked on in grade school.

[miked]

You might be interested to know that Heroes of Might & Magic V is coming in early 2006, courtesy of UbiSoft.

Thought I'd pass that along.

In college, my roommates would play Heroes until the sun came up...literally. I believe it was the second one mainly. They would all drink and play Heroes while I tried to sleep, unfortunately it was my computer though.

I'll go along with Heroes and Civ as being the most addictive. I also used to play a game back in the day called Capitalization (I think)...pretty addictive.

[KevinNU7]

Click below :)

[Lathum]

TCY
Worms
Master of Monsters ( old sega genisis game)

[Hurst2112]

FOF games ESP FOF2 (the one more season thing)

CIV 3 (sorry, late bloomer with this series).

[mrsimperless]

I agree with everything else said. My list also includes Zangband. Although that's more of a "just one more level down" or even worse, "just one more character" game.

[Loki]

Rome: Total War

[Buzzbee]

Civ series, most definitely. I'll also toss out:

Wing Commander (if "just one more mission" counts)

[Maple Leafs]

If "one more game" counts...

Earl Weaver Baseball
Hockey League Simulator
The original Lemmings
Any Omniplay game

[Radii]

Civ and CM easily top this list for me, both of them had me missing my bedtime for weeks at a time. I'm not sure why RTS doesn't count, so I guess I'll have to leave Starcraft and Warcraft III off the list and leave my list at 2 ;)

[gstelmack]

Battletech: The Crescent Hawks Inception

[kingfc22]

FM
TCY
Fallout 2

[WSUCougar]

I'm not sure why RTS doesn't count
Just because. :D

To me there's a difference between continually playing a game (like and RTS, or a FPS, or even TCY, which I love but would not put into this category) and the specific "one-more-turn" syndrome. But no biggie.

[KWhit]

Alpha Centauri

[Bubba Wheels]

Civ series

X-Com

[vyshka]

Civ Series (#1 was the one that kept me and others at DLI glued to the screen)
The SimTex games (Master of Magic, Master of Orion)
CM/FM (CM 01/02 and FM2005)
Front Page Sports Football (94-95 timeframe)
X-COM UFO Defense (many people in the barracks were racing to finish
this game first. How could you not love a game with the blaster launcher :) )

I am sure there are plenty from the C64 days too. I used to play the original
Silent Hunter, Red Storm Rising, F-19, and Superstar Ice Hockey. Dan Bunten's
Modem Wars was another I really liked. Unfortunately I never got a chance to play M.U.L.E. There is a clone of MULE called Space Horse that is sold by Shrapnel Games and supposed to be a faithful reproduction. I just placed an order.

Wow, how could I forget Starflight (The best scifi rpg ever) and Wasteland? I must be getting senile.

[Fonzie]

Civ I (and II)
MOO2
CM/FM

[Bubba Wheels]

Forgot Wasteland. Played that one until my Commodore 128 crashed and died. Great game.

[Fonzie]

Wow, how could I forget Starflight (The best scifi rpg ever) and Wasteland? I must be getting senile.

I'm with you. Starflight in particular did it for me. God how my eyes used to get bloodshot and bleary playing that game!

[weinstein7]

I wish I could be different, but I'll go along with the masses and nominate Civ (Civ 2, in my case, as I never played the later ones.).

FOF is certainly addictive, but it just has too many natural cut-off points, whereas in Civ there was always SOMETHING that would happen in just a few turns.

[SirFozzie]

How we could go 30 posts with out saying "Alpha Centauri" and Alien Crossfire, boggles my mind. FM is a close 2nd.

[vyshka]

Another game for my list would have been MegaWars III on Compuserve, but when the bill arrived after my 1st month of playing (7th grade time frame) I lost my Compuserve privileges.

[WSUCougar]

You mean besides THIS at #24?Alpha Centauri

[MJ4H]

1. Master of Orion (original)
2. Civilization (original)
3. Probably about it for me

[jbmagic]

Civ 3 conquest
and this great forum :)

[vyshka]

Another C64 game by Dan Bunten: Seven Cities of Gold. :)

[condors]

i mentioned alpha centuri at post #9 :(

[SirFozzie]

i mentioned alpha centuri at post #9 :(

Alpha Centauri is not part of the Civ series.. silly :D

And I missed the one at #24.. but why it's not on more lists.. *shakes head*

[ISiddiqui]

Civ2
FM

why it's not on more lists..
Cause Civ2 was just sooo much more addicting ;).

[SirFozzie]

Civ2
FM


Cause Civ2 was just sooo much more addicting ;).

YOU LIE! I KEEL YOU NOW!

[vyshka]

sick some mind worms on him, or have him stapled :)

[SunDevil]

lol,

Just for that I am reinstalling AC. :)

[SunDevil]

Front Page Sports 94

Alpha Centauri

Civ/Civ 2

[Buccaneer]

Civ2
Imperialism2
FBCB

[Flasch186]

anyone remember the game Alter Ego, that was pretty ahead of its time, i think.

[FrogMan]

FM2005
FOF

in that order best explained by weinstein7:

FOF is certainly addictive, but it just has too many natural cut-off points
FOF, you can stop when you get to the offseason... Right now, FM2005, while it's not keeping me awake all night (I've grown up a bit and with 2 kids, I just can't do that anymore, besides the wife would keel me if I ever thought about doing that, even more so since our computer is in our bedroom), it is certainly pushing my bed time a bit later than what it used to be before I got that game. And I've been playing a little every evening since I got it in mid-november, which in this time is pretty amazing to say about just any game...

FM

[KWhit]

Alpha Centauri is not part of the Civ series.. silly :D

And I missed the one at #24.. but why it's not on more lists.. *shakes head*

Nobody ever listens to me.

:(

[judicial clerk]

Hey, what about Alhpa Centauri. it was that game from Sid Meier that was kind of Civ on another planet. It had turns.

[ice4277]

1. Football Manager/Championship Manager series, particularly CM 01/02
2. Civ II
3. Final Fantasy Tactics for a brief period of time

[weinstein7]

lol,

Just for that I am reinstalling AC. :)

And I'm reinstalling Civ2. So there :)

Though as a slight follow-up to Civ2, I find that it's always hard to get rei-mmersed in a game of Civ. That's part of why I play so much in one sitting. Once I get up from it, and try to re-load, it just feels like every other game of Civ I've ever played, and I often don't really have the interest to finish it.

[Ragone]

Star Control.. no.. what was that old c-64 space game where you pick your crew and explore the galaxy.. god.. help :)

also

Fbcb
Mail Order Monsters
Cm/Fm Series

[cuervo72]

Civ I, Civ II, Alpha Centauri. Imperialism was very good, STILL need to get back to Imperialism II.

FBCB has potential now that I've picked it up.

Other games that I have played well into the night (not turn based) are the original MicroLeague, Maniac Mansion/Zak McKraken (one more puzzle, really) and CircleMud.

(Hot Dog Stand...good one FN)

[vyshka]

Star Control.. no.. what was that old c-64 space game where you pick your crew and explore the galaxy.. god.. help :)


That would be Starflight :) . I think that eventually made it to the C64.

[SplitPersonality1]

Civ II
Master of Orion II
Heroes of Might and Magic III
CM 01/02
a golden oldie - Empire

[SplitPersonality1]

oooh Empire ... we talking PC based or mainframe? :D
sign. both.

Damn, I'm old :)

[vyshka]

oooh Empire ... we talking PC based or mainframe? :D

[SplitPersonality1]

damn timestamp bug

[Warhammer]

I'm with you. Starflight in particular did it for me. God how my eyes used to get bloodshot and bleary playing that game!

That game was great, nothing but go out and explore, then you find out what the game was about.

Another for me was Starcon2, "I'll mine out just one more planet!"

[Warhammer]

Alpha Centauri is not part of the Civ series.. silly :D

And I missed the one at #24.. but why it's not on more lists.. *shakes head*

Some people loved SMAC, and some like me never really connected with it. I think a lot of it had to do with theme, getting the automobile was much more monumental than getting transcendence, etc.

[daedalus]

Alpha Centauri is not part of the Civ series.. silly :D

And I missed the one at #24.. but why it's not on more lists.. *shakes head*It doesn't carry the name but it basically evolved from that family. I don't see why it can't be considered part of it.

[Marc Vaughan]

FM/CM (bizarrely enough ;) )
Civ (all versions)
Warlords (all apart from the last couple)
Master of Magic (civ but with Orcs & Elves :D ... really really needs a new version)

[Marc Vaughan]

Oh and "Battle for Wesnoth" .... best FREE game I've ever played, the main campaigns are very balanced and its a real challenge on the harder levels (and each map requires THOUGHT to beat, its not simply a case of stockpiling units).

[vyshka]

FM/CM (bizarrely enough ;) )
Civ (all versions)
Warlords (all apart from the last couple)
Master of Magic (civ but with Orcs & Elves :D ... really really needs a new version)

I forgot about SSG's Warlords game. That was another fun one. I haven't played the newer ones. SSG is apparently working on bringing out a new version of Reach For the Stars, which is the game that probably inspired Masters of Orion.

[WSUCougar]

Ah yes, Warlords III got an ample wee-hours workout back in the day.