Whoa whoa whoa hold on a second. Mafia? Weapons? Sabotaging the enemy? that tycoon game sounds awesome.

It should be. It was published by Microprose (can't remember who developed it). As someone else mentioned in another thread, as a rule of thumb, you are safe to ignore all Tycoon games but Microprose's. They aren't perfect, but they typically have the magic touch.

Pizza Tycoon is one of the best games ever made; there hasn't been another food management game out there that's beaten it yet. It's also insanely addictive. You can concoct your own recipes, borrow money from loan sharks, buy "ice cream", bribe the sheriff etc. It's not that complex once you get the hang of it, but boy is it addictive.

wow that sounds way more in depth than just simply running a pizza restaurant. it sounds like they could of called it Pizza Place That Is A Front For Criminal Activities Tycoon but that title wouldn't fit on the damn box.

longest period i went where i just played games is where i had an 18+ hr marathon of mortal kombat on the ps1 and warcraft 3...

super fun :D

Oh man, don't get me started on late nights with Fallout and Borderlands games. I easily lost over a week just doing side quests, running around powerleveling, or hunting unique enemies for good loot, etc. I think it took me another week to actually finish my first playthroughs on those games simply because I didn't want it to end. Hell, I STILL need to finish my first playthrough on F: NV.

Back when I bought Saints Row 2 and Fable 2, I sat down with both at around 3pm in the afternoon. I stopped at around 10am the next morning. Fun times, that.

I don't know how many hours were spent on the General Knoxx glitch in Borderlands. I'm pretty sure the developers gave that to gamers to exploit. Over and over again I shot up Knoxx in order to run through red chest heaven in the armory. . .Haven't played Borderlands in several months since I've been trying to play other stuff, may have to do another run.

There's a few which are close to this ^. How on earth did you keep going!? :O

Back to retro gaming, I remembered an all-nighter we pulled on a mates pc with a really old but brilliant F1 game. It was completely customisable and

- We set the game race time to 100%,
- Set our car to indestructible
- All cpu cars to damage and wear ON

Then set about ramming every car out of each race for a full season - Happy days!

Edit: I think it was all the more fun as it felt that we had found a whole new game than what was intended by the developers. From F1 to Destruction Derby(s).

It helped that I'd both woke up at around noon that day and had a mountain of KFC on hand to keep me from getting hungry. Not to mention my 20 year old self still has its youthful stamina.

I'd call myself a casual sort of gamer now, but a decade ago:

My Lineage 1 marathons consisted of 48-hour cycles, where I'd game for 36 hours and sleep for 12, game for 36 hours and sleep for 12, game for 36 hours and sleep for 12,...... you get the point. ;p

At first, the cycles lasted a month before I stopped to ask myself if I was crazy; later, it took several week-long cycles; the end finally came after a few months of "mild" 10-hour-per-day sessions. I was mostly living on 1 meal a day, and cigarettes were used to combat hunger pangs while I click-click-clicked. Withdrawal symptoms? Yes, really severe ones. Constant dreams of being back in the gameworld, being chased by mobs, finding uber-rare items, "seeing" mobs come out from nearby trees... Crazy crazy shit. The addiction lasted 4 years (of course, I didn't have enough time to play like this the entire time -- only several months per year. lol. Crazy MMO players do have obligations, too.) It took more than a year of not playing just to stop having dreams and cravings, and a few months of easy leveling on private servers just a couple years ago to finally get some closure. Well, that plus wifey's warnings against playing the game.