Games you've never stopped playing?

[XYXZYZ]

I think most of us go through phases- first you'll have your favorite games for system X, then system Y will come out and you pack up your system X games and play with your new system Y for awhile, until system Z comes out. Maybe a few years later you'll break out system X and play some of those again, or maybe there's some arcade game you haven't played since it's heyday long ago until discovering MAME or something.

But are there any older games that you've always played since it's release, through each of your gaming phases? Games you've never gotten tired of?

For me that game is Street Fighter 2 CE. When SF2 came out in 1991, I played the hell out of it. Througout the life of the SNES, I played those ports regularly until I got the SF 2 package for the Playstation. When I packed up the PSX, I played SF2CE with emulators. Now I have the Capcom Classics package for Xbox, and.... I still play SF2 CE on my MAME cabinet. :P

Though my favorite video game is probably Legend of Zelda (NES), I do get sick of playing it. Haven't touched it in months. But I 've never gotten sick of SF2, and I've always needed to play a few rounds every couple weeks or so since 1991.

What about you?

[Perkar]

this is an easy choice. any time of day, any month, any year, i can play Tetris for hours on end.

[keiblerfan69]

Lumines, Tetris and Counter Strike.

[MASTERWEEDO]

NES

Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3
Tetris
Dr. Mario(I hate it but i usually find peoplw that love t so i have to play them)


Genesis

Skitchin
Road Rash
Saturday Night Slammasters
Greatest Heavyweight


32X

Doom
Virtual Racing

[MarkMan]

Tekken series and Tetris. :)

[max 330 mega]

id say its bust a move for me, any time i see a different version of the series i dont have i always pick it up.

[Hammy]

Tekken games :) in '95 after playing it in an arcade i got a playstation the day after, never stopped playing, and now, i have the real thing, and never stop playing that!

[X SMF X]

I would have to say Tetris, SMB3 and Resident Evil 4 for me. Even though RE4 is only a little over a year old on the Cube, I can sit and play that any day any time

[Tan]

Tetris, NFS high stakes, Nightstalker

i play a game of tetris just about every night before i go to bed, or columns on the game gear.

[NESaholic]

For sure Testris but also Mario Bros. series and Castlevania series,i like Megaman also but play it less then the others.

[Ed Oscuro]

Lumines, Tetris and Counter Strike.
I would say Counter-Strike as well, but we've really had five or more versions to mess around with (original with APCs - before my time, "classic," 1.6 with shield, Condition Zero, CSS, and now with HDR), plus server-side mods...somehow the game never managed to get old for me. New maps help a lot.

I really can't think of anything I've played forever and ever, but I imagine I'll keep playing some of my "new" favorites for a long time now :)

[Chuplayer]

Metal Gear and Crazy Taxi for me.

[Jibbajaba]

Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog. Two of my favorite games. Got them both when they came out and have played them regularly ever since.

Chris

[The Great Dane]

Super Mario Brothers 1 will always be the one for me as it was the game that got me into gaming about 20 years ago.

Also, some others are Suikoden 1 and 2, Super Mario Brothers 2 and 3, Fire Prowrestling D, Mortal Kombat 2, and Willow for the NES

[nationgamesdepot]

contra and super contra, god those are great games.
~~NGD

[Griking]

The original Unreal Tournement for me. As long as there are servers hosting the game I'll keep playing. Actually, I'd probably host a game server myself if I couldn't find another.

[HarvestDude]

Lemme see...

NES:

Yo!Noid
Super Mario Bros. 1-2-3
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Megaman 2-3-5 (the ones i have)

SNES:

Super Mario World
Super Punch-Out
Tetris Attack
Final Fantasy III

GB/GBC:

Pokemon Puzzle Challenge
Mario Tennis
Harvest Moon GBC
Pokemon Yellow/Crystal (the ones i have)

N64:

Mario Tennis
Mario Kart 64
Conker's Bad Fur Day (multiplayer)

PSX:

Street Fighter Alpha 3 (always!!!)
Street Fighter Collection 1-2
Final Fantasy Tactics
Winning Eleven 2000/2002
Darkstalkers 3

That's it! If you see me playin', you'll see me hooked in one of those!

HarvestDude

[Nirvana]

There are a couple games that come to mind...

Street Fighter Alpha 3/Capcom vs. SNK 2. Whichever one I find first, I always am up for a little 2D fighting game action.

2Xtreme for the Playstation. Not a very popular game at all, but I ALWAYS used to play this with my cousins and my friends. I have a friend that I play this with regularly, and it's really entertaining.

ESPN NFL 2k5. I've had this game ever since it came out, and I've played it at least 5-6 times a week upon having the game in my posession, until now. This should continue for another couple of years. LOL

Mega Man X. One of my favorite Mega Man games, always been the most replayable to me.

[GetImOliver]

Ah geez...
Super Smash Bros. Melee, Tetris Attack, Counterstrike and Diablo 2. Stinking rare items making me want to play forever!

[Retsudo]

PS1
Ace Combat 2
Resident Evil Directors Cut
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Doom
Final Doom
Tekken 3
Tekken 2
PS2
Tekken Tag
Tekken 5
Ace Combat 4
Ghost Recon
Socom 1 & 2
Snes
Mortal Kombat 2
Super Mario Allstars
Desert Strike
Dreamcast
Soul Calibar
NES
Tiger Heli
Blaster Master[/b]

[Bloodreign]

The GnG series, Galaga, Sky Kid, Gradius series (taking occasional short breaks from this one to keep it fresh), and SMB.

Now I do game hop quite a bit on emulators, and I could play some of these on my consoles, but has there ever been a time a game you've owned, you first play it on emulator, then go right back and play it on a console. Gradius 3 of course happens to be one of those games, I could MAME the hell out of it, then pop in the PS 2 Gradius 3/4 pack and go right back at it.

[petewhitley]

Definitely Mario Kart 64. Oh god, if I had to put in a quarter for every time I've played that game ... man, we're talking NBA money. The four-player mode gets SO much action in my circle of friends, even to this day. We've had tournaments practically end in fistfights at times. We've won and lost hundreds of dollars in bets. It certainly has it's flaws, but it's one of the classic multiplayer games.

[Schenley]

Galaga and Joust - any system, any time!

[classicb]

Tecmo Super Bowl

I do roster updates every other year but I still love playing with all the original players. My personal favortie game of all time and I've been playing my original copy since I got it new.

[davidbrit2]

Music games, and pretty much any Sega racer.

DAYTOOOONAAAAA

[Austin]

Final Fantasy Tactics - I've played through this once annually since it was released. It's a habit.

[Rejinx]

Transport tycoon for PC, got it in 96 and still play it all the time. Thanks to players open source moding it in to a better and better game. Oh and NBA jam, my friend always want to play it.

[retroman]

i never stoped playing the 8 and 16 bit era period...

[2Dskillz]

Street Fighter.

Sonic 2 (the best sonic game ever).

Final Fantasy 1.

Karaoke Revolution (any part of this series).


Feel like I am forgetting something...

[BIGMIKE]

diablo psx
rygar nes
baseball stars nes
nuff said -_-

[GrayFox]

Sonic CD, and Sonic 2. Never will I stop.

Also, Metal Gear Solid, SMB3, SMW, LttP, Super Metroid, Counter Strike (Source and Ver.), HL... shit there's a lot of games I can't stop playing...

[fishsandwich]

sdfsdf


F-Zero for Super Nintendo. The original and still the best.


:D


http://outerspace.terra.com.br/retrospace/materias/consoles/imagens/parte26/fzero.gif

[readANDlearn]

Tetris of course, weither it be on the NES, gameboy, playstation, or my moible phone while waiting to get a haircut, tetris is the best.

Super mario 1, 3 i mean come on these are instant classics, every one loves them, either your trying to see just how fast you can get through the level, or trying to show your friends up on just how many secrets you actually know.

FFX- PS2- when ever i cant find anything to play or just hate playing anything else, i could always pick this game to get me through a couple of hours so i can take care of the boredom, even if i have played through it 12 diffrent times, 12 different ways. Ex. (tidus only challenge; no sphere grid challenge, etc.)

Tony hawk- any platform, i mean come on who doesnt wish they could do those crazy things on that game, just have to play it once a month either just for a couple of minutes or playing it the whole month to get my fix, its great.

[Julio III]

I dont know about singleplayer, but with friends, if one of these games is available it always gets played: Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye, TrickStyle

[sabre2922]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/weblogs/upload/50/48107557043d7a2860baf4.jpg

I always go back to my single favorite videogame the Legend of Zelda on NES (now emu) and never truly get tired of playing it.

It sometimes is the only thing truly capable of transporting me back to a far better time in my life when I was a kid if only for a few minutes.

The music , the sound effects all of it reminds me of a great summer of friends , swimming in the local (clean) swimming pool, riding bikes and LOTS of ZELDA.

Others include:

Capcom vs. SNK 2 (ps2)

Super Mario bros. (emu)

Tekken Tag Tournament (PS2)

the Metal Gear Solid Series

and of course the Silent HIll series especially part 1

[Cers]

Street Fighter..............um, let me think...Street Fighter.........ah and yes, Street Fighter.........WHAT a GREAT Game concept.

[idrougge]

Frontier (Elite II). It's not like other games which I might revisit some time when I find it while cleaning. When I get the inspiration or incitement to play Frontier, perhaps just to show it to someone else, I get stuck for a month before circumstances make me do something else. Then, a year later, I find my old savegame and continue.

The other game is Turrican II. It's so accessible.

[MASTERWEEDO]

Bass Masters Classic: Pro Edition, i dont know why, but this damn addicting

[XianXi]

http://www.videogameconnection.com/images/PSXintelligentqubebox.jpg

http://www.gamerankings.com/screens4/250597/1.jpg

[CreamSoda]

SNES: Donkey Kong Country 2, Super Mario Allstars.
N64: Goldeneye, Perfect Dark.
Dreamcast: Shenmue, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Crazy Taxi

Any system: THPS series(1through 3)
Any system: GTA:SA

I know I'm missing some, but these are the general games with infinite replay value.

Future title that may hold this title: Perfect Dark: Zero

[jcheatle]

This mainly pertains to those games I pick up having some time to kill. A round of Tetris takes about 10 minutes. Playing through Contra takes about a half hour. Other than that, Baseball Stars and Tecmo Super Bowl have stayed in heavy rotation over the years.

And that Intelligent Qube picture reminds me how much I need to get a copy, if only it wasn't so damn expensive... I played the hell out of my friend's copy at school back in 2000-01, not knowing it was rare. :/

[booyakasha]

Castlevania (1-4), Mortal Kombat 1-3, Prince of Persia, Ninja Gaiden 1-3, and of course Street Fighter Duezshe.

SNES and NES games with GG and PAR codes that alter games significantly are fun.

[starsoldier1]

maybe I'm the only one but I think Wario Woods, Gunstar Heroes and Guardian Legend were some of the most addictive games around. I still pop them in every so often.

[Zing]

http://www.videogameconnection.com/images/PSXintelligentqubebox.jpg

Seconded.

[Crutch]

Zelda II - Adventure of Link

[Dr. Zombie]

I've been playing Warcraft III daily since I bought it in 2003.

[Emuaust]

well I still play Virtua Racing Deluxe on the 32X along with
NBA JAM - 32X and I still play Prince of Persia on the SMS
pretty often, like at least once if not twice a fortnight.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I realized today that whatever may come down the pike, Dune 2000 on the PC will always, always be my favorite RTS game. It's real easy for me to fall off the wagon and go back to this game. LOL

[drewbrim]

Civilization II Gold Multiplayer Edition.

This game is so good and I still play it so much I've never felt the need to get a newer one in the series.

[Sosage]

Super Street Fighter II Turbo (CPS2 version)
Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting (CPS1 version)
Vampire Savior (CPS2 version)
Mars Matrix (Dreamcast version)
Kaboom! (2600...well...was there another version of this?)
Quake III Arena (PC version)

These games probably get the most repeated play out of my collection. Mars Matrix is still a bi-monthly obsession for me. One month I ignore it...then next month I absolutely have to improve my score (I need to get around to snagging the arcade board...omg 1 button! =P).

[cavein2000]

Super Mario 3, Double Dragon II, Battletoads, MC Kids!! Two player games usually see a lot of replay. Just hooked up a dreamcast with worms armageddon. I can see that being played time and time again!

[DeputyMoniker]

Burgertime : Intellivision
SMB 1 : NES
Mario Kart 64: N64
I never get tired of them.

[Truffle]

I cant stop playing Kirbys Adventure for the NES :D
How many times do I have to play through this game before I get bored? Only time will tell...

[EricRyan34]

I have a bunch of these:

Silent Hill 1
All Resident Evil games
Donkey Kong Country
Need For Speed Underground
N64 Goldeneye
Diablo II for PC

[Fighter17]

Super Mario World, and Street Fighter II. :P

[DeputyMoniker]

and Street Fighter II. :P

For SNES?
SMW is a good one. I forgot about it but if I had a SNES I'd buy that for sure. All the ole Marios are excelent choices. (except SMB2 IMO)

I think I'm going to add Kaboom: 2600 to my list. I just played it for the first time last year (or the year before) but I can tell it's going to stick around forever.

[kevin_psx]

Ms. Pac-Man


Played it every year since the day my parents gave it to me as a christmas present. First the Atari version & later the arcade version once I grew up.

[Sibs]

Final Fantasy:Mystic Quest

A relaxing, quick and easy game. I played this one a lot as a kid too, so it has a special place with me. Also has one of the best RPG soundtracks, IMO.

Donkey Kong Country

Always a fun game in my book. I've always loved this game not just for its gameplay, but for its awesome soundtrack as well.

Super Mario World

I've played through this game so many times that I can almost beat every level without dying once. That being said, I find this to be less frustrating than most other games I usually play and sometimes you just need to take a break from those tough games and just relax and play something like this.

Chrono Trigger

One of my favorite RPGs of all time next to FFMQ and FFVII. This is another one with an awesome soundtrack. The whole time travel aspect of the game is always something fun to play around with too, even after beating the game so many times.