What is the BEST computer game purchase you've made?

[November Adam]

What is the BEST computer game purchase you've made?

The criteria for this is totaly up to you.

The first game would have to be CIV, it introduced me into the great time wasting thing that is known as computer gaming.

Honorable mentions would have to be Deus Ex (damned CD is broken so now I can't play again), Caesar 3 (many hours spent on this game), and Sim City 2.

[Makeo]

has to be civ2. i've spent thousands and thousands of hours playing it.

i didn't pay for civ1. it was on the computer i got second hand.

[Rasputin]

the one that wins is the one that i play the msot of and that is civ 2 ......

[Ecthy]

Civ2, for sure... $40, my dad paid it and I have played about 8,000 hours of it

[Juggler]

Civ2 and Baldur's gate.

[Makeo]

runner up is diablo 2

[Zopperoni]

Civ 2 and FIFA Soccer Manager...

[Case]

My first choice will be the same as everyone on this site: Civ 2 (duh)
Second best: M1 Tank Platoon 2 - I got it for $10 and it's great
(it was cheap because the manual had gone missing - meaning I had to work out the controls by bashing each combination on the keyboard & writing down what happened )

[War4ever]

i played as many hours of civ2 as civ........but i had to buy civ 2.... the other game i like is smac..... but not as much as the other civ games

[ColdWizard]

baldur's gate 2


i don't mention civ2 MGE because it was a gift (specially requested )

[August Borms]

Definitely Civ2, the only regret I have about this game is that I didn't buy it immediately; I waited almost 6 months because the screenshots on the back looked so horrible

And UT is fantastic too, I still love to play CTF-Face and CTF-Coret...

[Buck Birdseed]

Single game? Probably Duke Nukem 3D... or Micro Machines 2.

[Father Beast]

you did say purchase , didn't you?

my best purchase ever, no question. was a pair of 2packs I got for 10 each one day at Kmart.

one 2pack contained Civilization and Colonization , starting me on the path I am currently on. Civ2 and 3 are sequels to that addiction.

The other 2pack contained Master Of Orion and Xcom: Ufo Defense , both fantastic games.

all of these games remain on my hard drive to this day, and may do so permanently.

[November Adam]

guess it's kind of a loaded question asking this on a civ forum... oh well.

[JohnT]

Like most everybody else in this thread, the best computer game I purchased was either Civ 1 or Civ 2 (take your pick). Master of Orion and X-Com were also great games, but to name a few that haven't been mentioned already would compel me to also list


1. Might and Magic: World of Xeen
2. Heroes of Might and Magic (2 or 3)
3. Rollercoaster Tycoon
4. Starcraft
5. The Pro-Pinball series