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Most played game in the world .. Ever

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  • 29-05-2008 2:52am
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    MooseJam
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    What game do you think has been played the most ever in the whole world .. and give a guess how many man hours went into playing it.


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    Melion
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    Tetris and i wont even bother trying to guess


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    Jazzy
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    easy

    Solataire


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    judas101
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    mario the first perhaps?


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    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Hmmm I dunno, World of Warcraft? 10 million subscribers playing obsessively for 4 years.
    Sooo I'm gonna sayyy... a hundred billion hours?


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    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Deffo World of Warcraft.


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    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,581 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Solitaire, without a doubt. Tetris probably a distant second, followed by something like Bejewelled or Pac-man.


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    Ginger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    Doom or Wolfenstein 3D ... man I know I spent hours playing them... that or Risk online


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    Xavi6
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    I'd say all the contenders have been mentioned already but I'd say the Championship Manager/Football Manager series is in the top 10 anyway.


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    c - 13
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    I was going to say either pong or pacman since they were kind of around from the start, but, I think you might be onto something with world of warcraft actually.


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    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Yea, champ! I used to play that obsessively but had an epiphany one day where I realised I was criminally wasting my life.


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    Kinetic^
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    Jazzy wrote: »
    easy

    Solataire

    Not so easy to spell it though, is it? :pac:

    +1 for Solitaire.


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    Canis Lupus
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    Chess?

    Hide and seek?

    Tag?

    (you never specified computer game now did you)


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    Vegeta
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Chess?

    Hide and seek?

    Tag?

    (you never specified computer game now did you)

    Then its definitely burry the sausage in fishy valley.


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    koneko
    Registered Users Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Without a doubt solitaire. Built into Windows + bored office workers = winning combo (and many hours wasted).


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    Maximilian
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Maximilian


    You're all idiots. Its Daikatana.


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    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Minesweeper?

    A former boss used to player it 7 hours a day. Although he'd mastered the art of Alt-Tab - never once caught him.


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    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    im going to jump on the tetris bandwagon, especially if you include all the clone versions and phone games


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    silvine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭silvine


    Solitare - every PC has it or WOW - people who play its are nuts for it.


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    K.O.Kiki
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    Solitaire.

    The game is easy to learn, quick to play, and taught every office worker how to use a mouse AND Alt-Tab :D


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    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I'de rather work than 'play' solitaire. Soul-destroying stuff.

    EDIT: I'de rather tug potatoes from the ground under a hot sun than play solitaire actually.


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    Retr0gamer
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    Yep definitely solitaire. Even though the game fills me with hatred to my core I've even found myself dabbling in it out of boredom when I'm in college waiting on long experiments.
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    jonski
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    I am inclined to think it is one of the above but for the sake of a new suggestion , online poker .


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    steviec
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    It's obviously Solitaire.

    But I'll mention Snake since it hasn't been named yet, certainly a few years ago there was nobody who didn't play it.


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    #25
    AntiVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭AntiVirus


    MOH wrote: »
    Minesweeper?

    A former boss used to player it 7 hours a day. Although he'd mastered the art of Alt-Tab - never once caught him.

    How do you know it was Minesweeper and not porn?


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    CiDeRmAn
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    Could one of the most played game ever be Super Mario Bros on the Nes, given virtually every home that owned a NES had a copy?
    Also, given the ubiquitous nature of the Atari 2600 at one stage, perhaps Combat?

    Also, the PSone was immensely popular, could a game on it have been owned by many many people? Maybe Tomb Raider or Crash?


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    genericgoon
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    The Sims?


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    #28
    ballybay_eh
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    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Yea, champ! I used to play that obsessively but had an epiphany one day where I realised I was criminally wasting my life.

    Criminal is the word. Its an awful game. When I think back to the hours I wasted on that game... Its horrible.

    Every now and again I still consider installing it again (cause I have to delete it every time. Its the only way).


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    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,581 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Also, the PSone was immensely popular, could a game on it have been owned by many many people? Maybe Tomb Raider or Crash?

    I think the biggest selling PSOne game is Who Wants To Be A Millionaire... it spent literally years in the top ten.


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    ballybay_eh
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭ballybay_eh


    Love.



    Eh? Eh?

    ...

    ...

    Nevermind.


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    #31
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »
    Hmmm I dunno, World of Warcraft? 10 million subscribers playing obsessively for 4 years.
    Sooo I'm gonna sayyy... a hundred billion hours?

    This would be my guess, with windows solitaire being my other choice.


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