Dammit, I'm addicted to a smartphone game again :(

I was addicted to one of those crystal matching games called Jewels on my tablet a few years ago.  It had a worldwide database of scores with only nine players over 1 million.  Six were in the 1,000,000 range, two in the 2,000,000 range and one was in the 3,000,000's (see below).  I just reset my tablet to sell it and completely forgot to take a picture of where I got to (and was still going! I'm sure I could have racked up a lot more points if I cared to).  I killed the game with a score over 4,700,000!  Below is a picture when I wasn't even half-way to that total...  Oh well!
 

 

Very impressive Craigb! U are terrific at quake 3 arena too aren't you?

U should get onto puzzle league. A very addictive and genius game. Sometimes known as Tetris attack (but very different to Tetris)

backwoods
Very impressive Craigb! U are terrific at quake 3 arena too aren't you?

U should get onto puzzle league. A very addictive and genius game. Sometimes known as Tetris attack (but very different to Tetris)

I used to run game servers for Quake 1 and Counter Strike (with occasional others like Team Fortress).  Out of over 340,000 Quake 1 players worldwide I was ranked in the top 25 (looks great on a resume!).  I was also in an online league for Counter Strike where I had one squad of a clan and my friend had another.  We ended the league at #1 and #2 (my team was #1).  We loved beating punk kids half our age (or less).  My server was listed the second most popular game server on the West coast (called n2o's Gas House).
 
It was fun, but I don't miss it.  I actually prefer first person shooters that you can play by yourself. 

that's one thing i'm glad i never have to worry about.
 
i could care less about playing games on a phone,
i think watching people walk into walls and **** like that put me right off of it.
 
i wish you well.
 

I've got a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, so it's got a huge screen and I only play when I don't have something more important to do (like walking).

Just say NO....to game requests.
 
 

I don't know what it is but I just cannot get into those big fancy complex games with "real" graphics. I think at one point after Playstations first came out, I decided I hated console controllers and console games. Too many buttons and controls to learn. And the more realistic the gameplay became, the less interested I was. Funny that. I think I preferred the wacky abstract worlds that you got lost in with less sophisticated computer graphics. 
 
There is one 3D game that I played heavily however and that was Battlefield 1942. Used to play it at a friend's house maybe 12 years ago. It was the first online multiplayer game I'd played and it just seemed amazing at the time, very playable. 

My wife's addicted to Candy Crush - or whatever the latest incarnation of it is out there.
 
Me I never liked games that much - real, virtual, board, cards, whatever... One exception was the Castlevania series on Nintendo/Super Nintendo.
 
And maybe pinball. I always told myself that the first stupid thing I'd do if I made tons of money would be to buy my own KISS pinball machine. For some people it's a private plane, or tanks with sharks in them, or a limousine and a chauffeur. For me, it's a pinball. 

I got hooked on Checkers on my phone about a year ago. I thought, "this will be an easy game"... hah. NOT. I refuse to play games that make other people rich... except for IK of course, LOL
 
J

Never have enjoyed computer games. The exception is Solitaire which I would as happily play with a real deck of cards as virtual. Of course virtual is easier to play while contemplating on the throne.

 
I've been seriously addicted to a few of the old arcade games in the past
 
When I had my snooker club, we used to do a good trade with a couple of high-jackpot fruit machines (slots) for the adults, and video games and pintables for everyone.
 
To increase the profitability further, we stopped renting them after a while and started buying them (second-hand) from a firm down in Bristol that reconditioned them. The only benefit we lost by doing this was that we had to learn how to fix them ourselves, although we did manage to... ahem..... 'secure the services' of one of the engineers who worked for the company we'd previously rented from for a small appearance fee!
 
Another bonus of this way of working was that we got our own operators licence and were able to rent out gaming and amusement machines to others, always being careful to undercut the local competition. Plus, once the machines had run their course, we used to sell them back to the reconditioning firm.
 
Pintables always did well, as did the fruit machines, but I remember a couple of arcade games in particular that were real gold mines for a while.
 
First was the multi-cartridge PlayChoice-10. We bought one pre-loaded with Super Mario Bros 1 2 & 3, Dr Mario, Track & Field, Golf, Bowling, Tennis plus a couple of shoot-em-ups as I recall. The beauty of the PlayChoice was that you didn't buy credits by adding coins, you bought time.
 
Our friendly engineer even managed to 'borrow' new cartridges for us every now and then
 

 
The other game we did well with was the original four player Gauntlet. The concept here was even better in that cash was exchanged for 'life force'; when this ran out, your game was over. With four separate coin-slots, one for each player, and with levels allowing players to attack each other (in addition to the game's antagonists), this was a real winner for a while.
 

 
 

jamesg1213
I liked Space Invaders in the pub. I quite liked Myst. That's it. Anything else falls into the 'life's too short' category.

I still have MYST... I could never get off the danged island. I guess I'm just not much of a gamer, I can play a mean pinball though!
J

A deceptively simple but addictive game is Duet. Only two control options; rotate left or right but can't stop playing.

I'm still hooked on plague inc. I am stuck on two scenarios I leep coming up short on...winning the smallpox scenario on brutal and the necroa virus on brutal. Last time i killed everyone but the wonderful people of madagascar.