What game has taken up the most of your time?

[Space05us]

is tropico a good game? I had intended to buy it when it came out but I completely forgot about it

[Apocalypse]

People have mixed opinions about it. It should last you at least 8 or 10 hours though.

[General Ludd]

Tropico is good, but can get old quick.

[Urban Ranger]

Consider Tropico if you find it selling for $10 or less. Not worth the money otherwise.

What takes up most of my time now is the game of Life.

Haven't really played much computer games lately.

[joseph1944]

Way back in the 80s Gunship, F-19, and Red Storm Rising.
In the 90s Civ 1/2/TOT, X-Com 1/2/3, RRTC 1, SC 1/2.
In the 2000s, SC 3, Civ 3, CTP 1/2, AOE/K, EEarth.
Actually I play the Civ series the most.

[Mr. President]

Super Mario Brothers. I played it so much I would see Starmen in my dreams.

[MosesPresley]

Sim City 3000, Black & White, and Civ 3. I waste entirely too much time on these games. I was going to put Neverwinter Nights in there, but I have already stopped playing it, as the single player mode is kinda good, but not good enough. Maybe when I can find a good online DM or group to hook up with, maybe then it will be the ultimate time killer.

[Juggernaut]

Civ2

[SnowFire]

For a single game, probably Myth I, from all that time spent doing multiplayer. Heroes of Might & Magic II comes close too, probably.

The Final Fantasy series as a whole has burned quite a bit of time, but the longer the game, the fewer the playthroughts. FF2/4j I have to have gone through at least 10-15 times, but that's only 10-15 hours a playthrough. FF6 probably has been beaten 6-8 times, and that's 25-35 hours. FF1 is a good 50 hours the first, massive levelling up when young- prossibly more, don't have a clock- but that's only 1 and a half playthroughs. FF7, 3 playthroughs and it's 15-20 hours. FF8, 1 and half playthroughs and it's 25-30 hours. FF9, 1 playthrough and that was 30 hours or so. FF10, 1 playthrough and that was another 30 hours.

[DinoDoc]

It's a tie between Starcraft and Diablo II.

[August Borms]

Civ2, but Europa Universalis is getting close

[dunk]

The Ultima series.

The Civilization series.

Other games come and go, but I will always come back and play these. And I can play them for hours on end.

[MattyBoy]

Civ 1 or SMAC or MoM - it's all a blur

Honorable mentions:
nethack, Doom I & II, Rygar (80's arcade game).

[Old n Slow]

Hmmm Let's see: 4 to 20 hours+ per game times over 600 games of Strategic Conquest on the Mac vs. 2 to 6 hours of Civ 2 per day 5 days a week on the PC for a decade -- you pick.

[Grumbold]

Desert Rats on the Spectrum
Bards Tale on the Atari ST
Civ 1,2, Simcity 1,2k Railroad/Transport Tycoon and Xcom 1-3 on the PC
most recently EU II

I play a lot of MMORPG's and RPG's but they normally end or get unbearably repetitive after a couple of hundred hours gameplay. All of the above have easily consumed many hundred (Bards Tale because I replayed it so much since there were so few games available.)