Half Life 2, HL2 Episode 1, HL2 episode 2

Wolfenstein 3d

Duke Nukem 3d

Commander Keen (pretty much all of them)

Duke Nukem (the old 2d side scroller ones)

Galactix

NFS Porshe

Crysis, Crysis 2, Crysis Warhead.

Magic Pockets - anybody else ever play this game at all?

Trasport Tycoon Deluxe

Sim City 3000 and Sim City 4

Wing Commander - Pretty much all of them, including Privateer and Privateer 2. The only one I never got into was Wing commander Academy.

Machwarrior - The original was still the best IMO. Crappy graphics.. but good for the time and the replayability was at insane levels. You could just keep playing and playing even after you completed the storyline.

Jane's WWII Fighters.
Jane's Fighters Anthology.
Red Alert 2.
Wing Commander Armada.
Star Rangers.
Air Force Commander.
World War 2 Air Force Commander.
Gunship 2000.
Their Finest Hour.

I'm pretty much one and done with most games (if it's a game that has an ending). But I have completed System Shock I and Wing Commander I, II and III twice. There was one exception: back in the mid-to-late 90s I put hundreds, if not thousands of hours into Links 386 Pro and Links LS. I was involved in online golf tournaments and was ranked in the top-20 worldwide. I even was on the US Ryder Cup team a couple of years (US best vs Europe's best in Links LS).

Games that I'll get the itch to play with at least once a year.

Doom 1 & 2
C&C and Red Alert
Duke 3D
Raptor
Hexxagon (5 minutes to kill game)
Iron Man Offroad (5 minutes to kill game)

AOE2
NFS 3, High Stakes, Porsche
Farming Simulator 2013

I'm good against a computer but probably not that good playing against real people on all those games accept NFS3 with the Holden, where I could lap other class C cars in hometown and NFS Porsche, loved the 356's and Carrera RS

SkiFree
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Sims 2
GTA VC

Wolfenstein 3D
Doom
Doom II
Quake 2
Half-Life
Half-Life Opposing Force
Half-Life 2
Quake 4
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness
Command&Conquer
C&C Red Alert
C&C Red Alert 2
Plants versus Zombies
Contra (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Power Blade (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Power Blade 2(Nintendo Entertainment System)

Starcraft/BroodWar
Tetris
Solitaire (what ... it's a game isn't it)
DI Tornado

gca wrote:

Solitaire (what ... it's a game isn't it)

Good point! I remember in a previous career I ran a CNC on occasion and the controller ran on Win9x. During long cycle times, I'd play Solitaire and Hearts. 😉

Not an expert and definitely not infinite times, but the most played were(sorted by phases of my life - ascending):

1) Age of Empires - 1 & 2
2) Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (didn't finish all the campaigns)
3) Need for Speed Most Wanted(2005)

I'm not an expert in any game 😉

The most played would be:

- Dune II
- Warcraft 2
- Warhammer 40K Dawn of War
- Descent
- F1GP
- F1GP 2
- Quake 2
- Quake 3 Arena
- The Need for Speed (1995 version)
- Test Drive Unlimited

I don't think I ever tried to "master" a game (e.g. get a speedrun or unlock all secrets), but there's certainly a number of games I played «infinite times»:

- Doom I/II
- Quake
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Street Rod 2
- Sims (1-3)

I keep a list of such games, separate from my other "to play" list. These are games I've played a zillion times, and plan to play a zillion more times. I call them the "Golden Games."

• Quake
• Quake II
• Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
• Need for Speed II SE
• Need for Speed: High Stakes
• Expendable
• Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed
• Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force
• Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
• Far Cry
• Doom 3
• Half-Life 2
• F.E.A.R.

There are others I keep coming back to, like Age of Empires, Age of Empires II, Diablo, Diablo II, Unreal, and Halo: Combat Evolved, but I haven't played them enough to consider myself an expert yet.

-Unreal Tournament
-Halo Combat Evolved
-Need for Speed 3 Hot pursuit
-Solitaire
-Wolfenstein
-Unreal Gold
-Age of Empires Gold
-Half Life 2 + Episodes
-Terraria
-Rocket League
-Wreckfest
-Saints Row The Third
-Flatout 2
-V-Rally 2 Expert Edition
-RollerCoaster Tycoon
-Portal
-The Godfather
-Crashday Universal
-GTA San Andreas
-Line Rider Beta
-Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
-Hot Wheels Crash
-Sim City 2000

And then there is emulation....

@ jheronimus
Whats the secret to winning road races in SR2? I keep crashing near the road works and if I slow down I get overtaken!

Prefered divercity and disks like "400 games on CD" (not shareware) helped a lot. So there was no close to "expert". But.. I spent significant time to Quake (multiplayer/bots) and Diablo I/II, as there was good replayability.

There are excellent games I would repeatedly play again, but not infinitely, since the games are story-based. Examples are TIE Fighter and Star Control 2.