Spent far too much time with Civ 4. Been on several pretty bad binges during the first couple of years after it had been released.

ah cool thx :) I did not expect that

I've been on a D2 binge since I bought it at midnight the day it came out. It would be funny if it wasn't true.

Pool of Radiance when I bought it shortly after release. Ditto Railroad Tycoon.

And geez, Battlefield 1942. Sooooo many marathon hours playing that gem.

Several times I thought I had matured out of excessive gaming 'binges' as it were, but each time something came along that shot that theory to hell. Only last year I decided to give KOTOR a go and couldn't stop until I was done. This year I lost 1.5 weeks to Kerbal Space program already when I really had to be prepare for a very important talk :P

Age of Empires I - I remember how impossible good the graphics was back then. Brought my 486 to a crawl though
Ah, I never went on a Battlefield marathon. I did go on several TF2 ones though :P Regardless I would dearly like to go on a Star Wars Battlefront marathon if people are still playing that, or Galactic Battlegrounds (someone reminded me of that game recently)

When I was younger, I would binge Runecape. I would get on at about 10 AM and get off at, like, 3 AM the next day.

I have Never Stopped Binge Gaming EVER I Always am on a gaming Binge I never stop binge gaming I am a Game addict I am Addicted ever since my early Nes Binges (Has anyone else EVER Finished Faxanadu!) I'm a Game-a- Holic I've been addicted to gaming Ever since I was young and played Incredible crash dummies on the NES I actually get High on gaming.

I always seem to play a game in the afternoons and then the sun comes up and I say to myself "uh oh what time is it" I look at my cordless phone and it says 6:32AM or 5:59AM and I say Oops..no sleep again! oh well then I feel like crap the nest day when I have to do things!

You had to say it Did you not? now I wanna play D2 and Blue Stinger and Shenmue!

You can get Battlefield 1942 for free on ORIGIN!

when I was a little Younger in my mid twenties I once Binge gamed Quake 3 Arena I got off of it The next week. by that time I was blacking out and felt like If i didn't get sleep I was going to die. I Told my self I'd never do that again but I did! the following week playing Omicron the nomad soul and Vampire the Masquerade bloodlines! I went whole weeks not even eating or sleeping just gaming!

We'll never learn, will we? :P

Aye, many a time. I think the first one that goes into the history books was with the original SimCity back in 1989 or so. I did not yet have a computer at home, but I was shopping for one pretty seriously, and I ended up with a copy of SimCity before I bought a PC - a ridiculous sale? a gift? Something like that, I don't recall.

I was temping at the time for the commercial division of a large, institutionally-evil bank. My department was pretty laid back, and my desktop was a telecom-enabled fast 286 (the new 386 boxes which were just starting to appear were balky, and most of our workstations were still AT&T 6300s). I asked my boss if I could install SimCity, and the department heads wanted to see it too, so I got it running and played it at lunch and sometimes after five, if I felt like hanging around for a bit.

This is the old release that came with paper DRM: after install, at game start, it asked you to match a symbol that was obtained from a grid chart included with the game. The chart was printed with blue ink on maroon paper, to foil copy machines. You couldn't play without the proper code.

Right after I started playing, I decided I'd stay after hours to get going for a bit. There were often people working until all hours on our floor, so it wasn't that unusual to have someone hunched over their computer after dark. I got my city going, and then the citizens started complaining about this or that, and I got to fixing, and so on and so on and so on. When I abruptly realized that I had been there for a very long time, it was close to 3 a.m.

Ah, the days.

Oh. I thought this thread was going to be about something like beer pong, or some such :D

I lost myself for weeks (months! years!) with the Baldur's Gate games and Morrowind. The Cat Lady is another one.

Recently went through Vampire the Masquerade bloodlines myself doing all the clans being nice and a complete asshole it was great man i love that game.

It is isn't it!

Many times and I love them. A game that isn't causing natural addiction (or compulsion, whatever) isn't a good game in my opinion (or perhaps not a game for that player).

Last Mark of the Ninja totally did that for me. Terraria and Orcs Must Die! as well but I don't know, MOTN made me feel like a ninja and I experimented quite a bit. Pity these binges usually push me to play them until I can't stomach them almost as if the need to play them to that point is inherently there.