I usually play two games at a time, an action game and a RPG or strategy game. For example currently I'm playing Ghost Master and Giants...
Alltough I'm always thinking about the next GOG... :D

I also play only 1 or 2 different games from different genres at a time.

I play 4-5 games at a time: one RPG, a pair casual, 1 good adventure.
I try play 2 RPG at a time but i can't do it. I need to play one at a time cause I don't remember what I have to do next if it isn't my only rpg game. Same for adventure games.

Aww, you poor thing. You know what I had to put up with?

[rewind tape]
LOAD [typed]
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
[press play on the tape deck]
[wait while the screen flickers for about a minute]
FOUND WIZBALL
[press space]
[wait while the screen flickers for another 5 minutes]
READY
RUN [typed]

And that was just for tapes. For disks there were intuitive commands such as:

LOAD "*" ,8,1

Ah, the good old days :-) This was on a C64, by the way.

yeah, I generally try to focus on just one game at a time, otherwise I tend to get drawn out from the experience

Wright now I’m playing Planescape Torment and probably will until it is finished. After that I’ll probably go back to might and magic 4+5 and finish that.. I start a bunch of games and then go around them finishing them one by one.

The games I have started right now are Fallout, Baldur’s Gate, Arcanium, Might and Magic 4+5, Outcast and Ultimate Doom. Also Fallout: New Vegas but I’m a little more than past the point of just trying out the beginning, I’ll play it to its finish much like I am Planescape.
This may take me a while as I usually do as much as I ever will in the game on my first play. If it’s a non linear game I tend to avoid the end like the plague.

That's way too high tech for me..

Actually, if I was older I probably would not have been a gamer whatsoever. More power to you for putting up with that.

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+1 thanks for the memories............ lol

I'm doing the "playing several at the same time" bit, according to my whims and what I feel like playing that day, and yes, you never get to finish any of them this way. I've uninstalled several when I reach a certain level of unsupassable difficulty or when I find I'm not having fun anymore due to the game being too repetitive.

Most of the games I'm playing get played little by little or a lot for a while then dropped for a longer while only to be pickd up afterwards. It's really no way to finish games and I commend you for playing them one at a time.

I also try to play only 1-3 games at a time but some times that just doesn't work or I buy a new game and installs it "just to see if it works" and then begin to play it rather than finish what I was playing before. Sticking with a long game is hard and I need other types of games like a sports game or action game to spice things up.

But games are first and foremost FUN for me so if I don't get any fun out of it and I'm bored out of my skull I will simply uninstall it. I recently did that with DAO that is a good game but extremely boring if you ask me. On the other hand I played Morrowind for like 200 hours or so - same with Thief, Deus Ex, BG2 and PST.

Trying out new games is fun I think - even if it means you don't finish many games.

Uhh... my C64 is actually always hooked up, and I load up a good game of Jumpman rather frequently... >_<

For what it's worth, the commands are typically labeled on the disks\tapes, and cartridges load just like they would from any console. The saving and loading commands are also thoroughly explained in the second chapter of the manual, pages 18-22.


I... also kind of keep all of my C64 books next to my C64 desk, and have the User's Guide, Programmer's Reference Guide, Mapping the Commodore 64, Troubleshooting and Repairing your Commodore 64, The Commodore 64 Music Book, and 1001 Things to Do With Your Commodore 64, and have read them all many, many times. -_-;

They really knew how to write books back then, you know? They assume nothing, explain everything, and couldn't be easier to read.


You've gotta miss the days when pressing power immediately turned your computer on, pressing it again immediately turned it off, and turning it on takes you instantly to the prompt, where you can either run programs or make them. Instead of simply telling you to buy software, they'd encourage you to learn the complete workings of your computer and have a crack at designing them yourself first.

Magazines had BASIC programs you could write. Given, they weren't that good, but dammit, it was educational as hell!

...and typing LOAD"*",8,1 and waiting for the disk is still faster than moving your mouse and clicking it. Well, for me at least. Waiting for tapes though, yeah... that can take a a bit. Still, tapes are awesome.

I try to keep myself to one or two PC games and one or two console games and at least one solid handheld game (for when I don't have access to my PC or consoles)

I have enough trouble with bluescreens without attempting to load several games at the same time. =P

I try to keep no more than nine games installed on my computer at once.