“Curt: Q: What is your GOAT video game list?”– I stopped playing games in 2009.

–“Curt: Q: What is your GOAT video game list?”–

I stopped playing games in 2009. Other than competitive counter-strike I can’t say I have ‘favorites’ so much as games worth replaying. And given that my interest is in AI, is I started writing games in the 1970s when we ran them on time shared mainframes using terminals.
I wrote games until the mid 80s. I used to review games for Compuserve back in the day. So I played a lot of games in the early to mid 80s. (Until I bought my first company). I did try to produce a Quake II add on but couldn’t nail down the license with ID. And the maps (levels) I designed for Counter Strike are still out there.
After I sold my first company I went back for grad school and among other things, worked on game AI with the intent of military applications (I dropped out to start another biz – ’cause, you know, a woman, honestly.)
So I would have to make a ‘greatest’ list for every generation of games. To date, the games that affected me most were Adventure (txt game), Starflight (8 colors), Wizardry Series, Ultima and Bard’s Tale series, DnD Gold Box Series, Wing Commander Series, Civilization series, Quake/Unreal Series, Counterstrike Series, Diablo Series, Far Cry Series, Elder Scrolls series, Dead Island series, Dead Space series, Borderlands series. I did try Asherons Call, Warcraft, and some others but I found they were time sinks and bad for me. I maintain an account on ESO to help me ‘reset’ when I’m overdoing it, but that’s all I do, and it’s enough for me.
There are many others I could list but those are the series that ‘suspended disbelief’.
And yes I did all this while building eleven companies – largely to reduce the stress of doing so. It was (and still might be ) the only way to turn off the autism’s obsessive thinking without the use of liquid or chemical assistance so to speak. 😉
Cheers
CD

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