Do you like your computer games (not stand-up arcade games)...

My favorite grouping is definitely Adventure: Byzantine, Zork, Shivers, Sherlock Holmes, Black Dahlia, Legacy of Time, Gabriel Knight, etc are all excellent. I also like Trivia (You Don't Know Jack). I hate any Action.

(I may mix home and arcade, here. Deal. :) Favorites: "classic" era arcade games (Tempest, Defender, Star Wars), creative derivatives (Arkanoid from Breakout, Badlands from Super Sprint, Tempest 2000), driving games of -all- kinds (Badlands, Continental Circuit, POD, Wipeout/Wipeout XL, NASCAR Racing 2, San Francisco Rush), and action/logic puzzle games (Puzzle Fighter, 3 in Three). Flying games are a new thing, if I get hooked on them, it'll probably be due to the coolness of Colony Wars. :) Carnage I can really live without, ditto for first-person shooters in general... though in cases where there's a cool plot (Marathon, System Shock), I can forgive either or both. Console RPGs are something I haven't gotten into yet (but could, given the opportunity and free time). Turn-based strategy games (Civ II, especially) are very cool, but I rarely seem to have the time for them.

The only genre whose omission from the list I immediately notice is the sports simulation (basketball, baseball, hockey, etc.) -- I've played a few of these, and I currently own one. They can be a fun diversion, though I can't say they're my absolute favorites. They sure seem to sell, though.

I can play solitaire for hours.

...to be fun, for any given moment's definition of "fun"? why yes! civ & populus &cetera are cool as well

I checked most of the above, though some conflicted, I like all kinds of games. I like variety and amazing graphics, I like immersion and games that don't require me to play the same part over and over; I like a good story the pulls on my emotions; I like games that have endings; I like games that don't require a lot of CD switching; I like games with good sounds and characters that talk to me; I like games that show high levels of creativity.

Speaking of games, after lisashea's survey on old-style arcade games, I looked around and found an emulator called MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator). It emulates in (DOS or Win95) most of the old arcade games - and fairly well too. I played Sinistar, Tron, Lunar Lander, Ghost and Goblins... It was great, though I have to admit those games aren't as good as I'd remembered them.

Carnage. Pure uninhibited carnage. I want to kill, kill, kill.

Solitaire, cribbage, computer pinball, Tetris.

I also like mathematical games, conway's Life etc. .

I don't actually like computer games/video games. some are fun, but not for long enough to bother buying.

interactive with multiple players like X-Tank.

I like adventure type games, where you have a goal to get somewhere, and there are obstacles blocking your way. I'm more for the mindless game than the thinking man's game.

I like turn-based strategy and role-playing games. My brain has super-slow response time and so I like to think on a move for a while. Unfortunately computer games like this are a dying breed.

I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I enjoy a variety of different games on occasion. I tend to have a lot more fun with multi-human-player games (doom, quake, quake2, unreal), just because it's vaguely social. (sick and twisted, but social).. My original addiction to multiplayer games came from an old text-graphics game called "Flash Attack," which was run through the teleconference section of MajorBBS... This was probably back in 1990ish. Following in 94/95 was Xpilot (vaguely like Netrek).. I became incredibly good at Flash Attack (almost unbeatable.. then again, I played about 10hrs a day for two whole summers, plus a lot during the school year).. Unfortunately, I'm not so great at Quake type games, but I'm getting better.... The latest in the saga is Unreal -- it's incredible. Waiting for my 3D graphics card to come in.... -- oh yeah, how could I forget emulators.. Old arcade games are great fun, too.

We play computer games quite a bit. I in fact have a gaming set of pages at This Spot. Our current favorite is StarCraft which we play all the time, but we have Riven, Ultima Online, Red Alert, Lords of Magic, Wing Commander Prophecy, etc. etc. I love strategy games, and I love role playing games. I used to play Hexen etc. but stopped quite a while ago. I'm avidly waiting for Diablo II and Dune 2000.

the coolest games aren't easy to categorize: doom, quake, populous, command&conquer, and lots of games that only existed for the amiga platform.

i disagree that marathon has a plot
***i meant to not have a colon. yes the few games i mentioned are categorizeable but...i guess to summarize populous as a "real time strategy"...i guess thats true but it jsut seem like So Much More. but yes you are correct.

Worms 2 is my favorite cartoony-violence game.

sorry, I don't play computer games ... I like air hockey!

games, games, games!!!!

I dont see the point in games that is all death and destruction, some violence is fine as long as it is some what realistic. Role playing games and strategy games are my personal favorite.

Myst, Riven, 7th Guest, 11th Hour, FlightSym, Pandora Directive, Dungeon Master ... Not big on violence, but I don't balk at nudity and/or sex (not that any of the above have this, but...)

There's also an X port of mame, called Xmame. And while I'm at it, here is another source of ROMS for mame/xmame.

I like logic-type games like lemmings and the incredible machine, and mystery/logic games like myst or 7th guest. I don't like violent games (except blowing up the lemmings, they look so cute before they go boom, so I picked cartoon violence as well as no violence). I like =some= arcade type games, like pinball simulations. Gender bias doesn't bother me really.

I vary. A lot of it depends on my mood. Sometimes I want something immersive with strong roleplay(Fallout is my current favorite) and sometimes I want something I can play for a half hour without getting stuck on a logic puzzle or having to save repeatedly. (ESPN Extreme Games was good for this, as was Space Hulk and Interstate 76. 15 minute sessions, fast action, not much continuity)

SNOOD! I almost exclusively go for strategy/tactics games. I dig chess. I like Tetris, for the strategy, but the 'action' part of the 'action-puzzle' stresses me out, snood is non-timed. Sid and Al's Incredible Toons ruled.

I like first-person games, but I prefer them to have a plot, and no, Doom's "There are bad things here. Please shoot them" doesn't count as a plot... Currently I'm in Riven, having played Myst and Obsidian, and I've been spending a lot of time playing a game for the Mac called "Escape Velocity" (and the sequel, "EV:Override.").

Hm, and I left off space-combat simulators, like X-Wing and Wing Commander (and sequels of both). I guess that's what the last option is for...

*** Joe: You think Doom and Quake aren't easy to categorize? They're first-person shooters, and essentially plotless. C&C is a real-time strategy game. Populous is also a real-time strategy game. Lots of games on the Amiga were still games-- I don't remember _too_ many that were really odd, except perhaps WizBall, which was the freakiest non-French video game I ever played (and lots of fun, too). And Marathon does too have a plot, or at least more of an attempt at a plot than Doom or Quake, which have nary a plot element at all. ("The moonbase is full of demons, and you've got a pistol. You know what to do." doesn't count as a plot, sorry. At least Marathon has actual tasks on each level.) So neener. 8)

*** Badtz: I forgot trivia games, too... Thanks for mentioning...

Topper: Freakin' Snood... What an annoying game that is. 8)

Where's my "I don't like video games" option?