Crack Pipe

if you want to talk about addictive, try SOCOM: Navy Seals online via PS2 Network Adapter, I once played until 5 in the morning.....

People die in Asia from playing video games for too long. Top that! While all of my friends were Com 64 enthusiasts, I "thunk different" and had a Ti-99 4a. There was a game called Tunnels of Doom that had me skipping days of school, feigning sickness.

I can't believe you tried to justify your "addiction" with that spiel about "problem solving". My suggestion? Get it out of your house. If it is anything like Tetris on the old Game Boy (Tetris dreams, anyone?) or Mortal Kombat (the later is responsible for VERY bad marks my sophmore year in college), the Playstation 2 can only lead to bad places...

The same thing is happening in my household. My roommate received a PS2 w/ Vice City for Christmas. Now, not only is my productivity at an all time low, but even my girlfriend (who never plays it) has become engrossed in just watching it. I think Vice City is one of the first watchable, all engrossing games that will begin to usher in a new level of part movie / part gaming entertainment that threatens to distract us all from our lives. But hot damn, they'll be fun.

Vice City is such a classic game.

Who wouldn't love tearing up the beach on a motorbike and subsequently running over people trying to get a suntan, whilst listening to 80s music? It's a true classic in every sense of the word and the people at Rockstar Games should all be knighted for their efforts.

A Commodore64 was my first computer. :) It was fun, reading a book while you waited for one level of a game to load, then playing through that level for 30 seconds and then eating supper while the next level loaded.

I've got an Xbox and Gamecube now, but i rarely play them. But i've also sold consoles in order to concentrate on work in the past.

I acquired a PlayStation 2 as a requested Christmas gift. I too had stayed away from the latest generation of games in order to focus on things I should be doing. (I already have enough trouble trying to cut back on DVDs.) I too am using a lame excuse to justify it's presence. (I need to recapture some of my childhood and fear becoming too old too fast. Once upon a time when I attempted to play Playstation 1, I began to fear the games were evolving beyond me and this had never been far from my mind.)

-Hides head in shame- Ok, I don't even know what a commodore 64 is.. ah.. maybe I should read more, yes?

And about the 'addictions' those things are just.. evil.. you can't let them go, that's why I force myself to hate them. And.. try to stay away. :)

I think my C-64 was my best friend for a couple years in junior high. I remember getting Ultima 2 in like, 6th grade and having to leave the room with a book pressing down the spacebar for monsters to spawn while eating supper - man that was fun. Guess I wasn't alone.

I now have an XBOX and I've been playing Mechassult and Max Payne pretty much whenever I'm not working (as much as I can) for the last week or so. The online aspect is quite a bit better than the PS2 from what I've seen...but...

...don't get me started on Vice City. I first came across it at my brother's house. I walked in at 5 PM on Friday night and left at around 2 AM. Plans were broken, pizza was ordered and my butt stuck to the couch when I tried to get up. We just took turns, not really playing the game for the story, just kind of trying to see how many cops we could get on our tail and get away from...

You're not alone in this. Everyone at my house is addicted to PS2. I hate that machine, even as I love it. Ms. Melanie over at brushstroke.tv had a great story about this earlier in 2002. Here's the link: http://brushstroke.tv/week02_14.html. "Something wicked", indeed.

the Commodore 64 was still commercially available here up until about 9 or 10 years ago, until it got killed off by the SNES and the Mega Drive (Genesis). i had a C64, the later model, all cream. i sold it to a friend about 3 years ago. i still have my tape of Street Fighter II somewhere. took about half an hour to load, including a flip of the tape, but it was worth it at the time. incidentally, i don't have a ps2, or any newfangled console. just don't have the time to invest in gaming. besides, i was never any good.

and while i'm here, i've got three words for ya: run-stop and shift ;o)

As much as I've been trying to be up to date with the whirlwind world of video games, I must admit the hyperrealistic movies-cum-games with endless plots of today is something I have yet to embrace - seems as if today's games are made only for teenagers with too much free time on their hands. Speaking of which, I've been thinking of bidding on ebay for a working Atari 2600 - now *that's* something I can relate to! (can you feel childhood nostalgia in here?) Blocky 4-bit games forever that don't take forever to finish! Woohoo!

Part of my strategy for controlling the machine is to rent the games instead of buying them. So, I can rent a game for a week, but then I have to take it back, lay off of the gaming for a month or so before I rent another one.

I last rented Need for Speed 2:Hot Pursuit and Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance. Needless to say for anyone who has played NFS2, I never got around to putting MK in. NFS2 just blew me away, it is pure fun. Although before I played that, I was of the mindset that if one had NCAA Football 2003, one would have no use for any other game ever.

Also, one of my New Year's resolutions (which I usually don't make) is to play video games only after 10pm. At least then, it is only cutting into my sleep and not my productive hours.

Game addict? Yeah, I've been there.

I think I did myself in in the 8- and 16-bit Nintendo years. From approximately '88 to '93, I was hardcore. I was the master. I was the kid in the Power Glove like in The Wizard. I was the guy who knew all the games like the back of my hand, and I still wake up at night with images of pixellated Koopas dancing through my head.

But it gets to the point where you've just got to turn it off and walk away. I haven't invested in a console since, and I don't even have a TV these days. My personal productivity levels are at all time highs.

My name is Dave, and I am a recovering game-aholic.

The C-64 screen just blew our minds the first time we saw it. (I have the good fortune of gaming with a bunch of old timers) GTA:VC is incredible. 80's music and I completely geeked out when I heard the voice work Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) did for the game. The game owned me, I'm still trying to achieve the ever elusive 100% mark. The best part is how non-linear the game is. Street race? Sure you can run neck in neck through the city...or you can whip out the rocket launcher and obliterate the competition. Tired of making rooftop motorbike jumps to finish a mission? Grab a helicopter instead. Crack indeed.

I agree with the "problem solving" quote. Once a month I get together with friends who link their xbox's and play 8-12 player Halo on widescreens (rich friend with 3 HD widescreens). They wonder how someone who hasn't owned a system in 5 years can be unbeatable.

It's in our blood. I think I was born with this disease. It's definitely not sexually transmitted, because my wife won't even touch a controller. I've learned from my past mistakes, I completely limit my gaming consumtion, and my productivity shows it. But am I just replacing one addiction with another?

I am huge fan of PS2 and Vice City.. I thought it would be neat to get my wife to play the PS2.

BIG MISTAKE! I got her Sly Cooper. I didn't see my PS2 for weeks. She finally finished it, which mean I have wrestled control back again.. but that is until she picks up Racket and Clank.

:(

- John

Long live the 64!

Now I am a vintage gamer myself. I own a SEGA Genesis, Sega CD, 32X console, an SNES, N64, and a Playstation 1 ( used to have BOTH atari's and the 8 bit Nintendo but my dad got rid of em when I was a wee kiddo).

I used to play games constantly and neglect whatever my parents were harping at me to do. I didn't really think it was a big deal when my mom was pissed because the house was a mess, or my grades weren't too good becuase I wasn't doing my homework, ect.

All that changed with my father. He was just as much a gamer as I was, yet even worse. He visited my brother in Chicago and played an Xbox for the first time. The next day my sis-in-law informs me he played Halo for NINE HOURS STRAIGHT! Nine hours that could have been spent playing with his nephews, or sporting the town, was spent infront of the tube. And this is a regular occurance that has even caused alot of friction in the family. Now, I refuse to play first person shooters because my father played them out, and I can't play a game or watch tv any longer than an hour before feeling guilty or my eyes going blurry.

So to all you gaming "addicts" out there. If you have loved ones in your life, be careful! Don't neglect them or your responsibilites for a video game. You don't want what I've had to live with.

I have 3 working c64s which are great for music. They have an really interested synth engine that you can tweak the hell out of.

Yeah a friend of mine on my floor here at school plays Vice City all the time. It's more addictive than the drugs you sell in the game.

I bet a Commodore 64 could fetch some serious cash on Ebay now. Too bad you sold it, eh?

Indeed, games are Pure Digital Crack (tm). My big problem of late is that I got a job telecommuting, and...somehow Soliders of Fortune II MP test made it's way to my machine. It's only a demo, and I'm still addicted. Compounding the problem is that we have a newborn, so sleep is pretty rare in my house right now.
I've tried uninstalling it, it keeps coming back...must...use...discipline...unhnnn...

I will not buy Vice City. I will not buy Vice City. I will not buy Vice City. I will not buy Vice City.

"Honey, Todd's web site made me buy Vice City. I'm a problem solver, you see and I can work on my problem solving skills..."

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I was an Atari man, myself. Atari 400, 800, 800XL. I did pick up a Commodore 128 eventually. My best friend had a TI-99/4A. I remember loading programs from cassette tape in 1980. I was just talking with someone this morning about how exciting my first floppy drive was (Atari 810 as I recall). I think my Atari 400 had 16K of RAM...

Oh, the C-64. That was the exact same thing I said when I saw it load first, "That's from a Commodore 64!" Fortunately, my girlfriend played with computers with her dad back in the day, so she knew what I meant. I remember writing programs on that baby when we had it. I had a TI-99 4A, also. Games like "Hunt the Wumpus" (best name ever.) It still worked semi-decent, until my mom GAVE it away at a rummage sale. I was like, "You did what?!? I probably could have even sold it to someone for a good chunk of money online." Oh well..

Off to play some Vice City. But, I just got SimCity 4 for my PC, so I know I'll be absorbed in that for a few weeks.

Have you tried the danish Hitman on PS2?

Hitman 2, of course.

I wanted to try Hitman 2, but I haven't had a chance to rent it. I'm a big fan of those stealth games ala Metal Gear.

PS2 is currently ruining my life, as well. Although, I am learning about my apparent addictive personality. I should never never never under any circumstances try heroin.

Does anyone else remember playing Zork or Leather Godesses of Phobos on their C-64?

::giggles::

To think...I was once content with text games...

Zork. and its many sequels were fantastic. And I still played Zaxon on my Atari 400 even though it took 30 min. to load up on the cassette drive. Seriously, Vice City is exactly that.. a vice. But, gosh darn it, ain't it a great one! You got to get all 100 hidden packages though.. the reward is a blast.

you foo's are all square, you foos need to talk bout some other shit instead of wasting your time playing video games and how cool you guys you think you are. well its just a thought you homo ass losers

yo mommas pimp

-jon jon,

you foo's are all square, you foos need to talk bout some other shit instead of wasting your time playing video games and how cool you guys you think you are. well its just a thought you homo ass losers

yo mommas pimp

-jon jon,