I recently had to clean out my laptop to do a defrag, and I started removing all the games I havn't played in a while. But for some of the games it wasn't worth removing them as they took such a small amount of space and it got me wondering what games give the most enjoyment by volume?

For example master of magic at ~37MB has amazing game play and I'm always up for "quick" game, while TF2 now is ~12GB (I think) and I play it so rarely that I I never have it installed on the 250GB hard drive.

What ones do you guys think give the most bang for MB?

Also does anyone know approximately how much of the dos games are the dosbox wrapper, as in how much space would be saved by setting all the games to mount into one general version of dosbox (I wouldn't do this as they are all set up to work right, and effort, just wondering)

Wizardry 6 + 7(DOS)

Not sure but I think it could be about 20Mb both.
Hours of gaming? Hundreds.

Probably .kkrieger, an FPS game which has an volume of only 96KB.

Tetris?

That's a cool way to store data, do you know if the game is any good?

I have to admit that I don't really remember it very well. Played it some years ago after I read about it, just because I was curious about the technical side.

But I'm sure you still can find downloads for it and try yourself (official homepage seems to be gone).

King of Dragon Pass and Eador both offer hundreds of hours of play, and I don't think they have 0.5 Gigs between them.

When it comes to GOG games I would say Might and Magic 1+2.

Cannon Fodder takes up 28,5MB of space. Granted, it would probably a fuck of a lot shorter if I didn't obsess over keeping the first four soldiers alive (the rest are expendable) and it would be nice to see further, but it's still a good game in my opinion.

EDIT: I've also heard that the developers of Elite had to optimize the living shit out of the code just to make the game fit on the storage medium of the time.

Catacombs Pack is also a worthy candidate when it comes to GOG games. Download has only 14 MB and includes 5 games.

Super Crate Box is 23.3mb; most of that is music though.

Ultima 7 is a mere 20 MB and offers an entire world to explore and lots of charming NPCs to interact with.

Or, if you like hard games, how about NetHack? Just a few hundred kB but it contains years of fun. If dying repeatedly and trying again is the kind of fun you like (some people don't).

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, only 20 gigs for 15 hours gameplay...oh...wait..what was this thread about again?

I dont have much to offer here, Baldurs Gate 1 is probably the smallest size game I have played for the most hours.

I never pleayed alot of the older RPG's mentioned, while I'm not a gfx whore, I dont think I could bear the gfx they had back then, but I supposed if I played games back then, I would have been impressed by them.

I think my most played game would be Dead Island 1 (about 5-6 gigs), probably stuck 200+ hours into that.

Pirates! (not the Gold version)

I've not played the first but I played gold to death! I think it's the most hours I've logged into a game!