Most played game in the world .. Ever

MooseJam

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.

Melion

Tetris and i wont even bother trying to guess

Jazzy

easy

Solataire

judas101

mario the first perhaps?

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?

Holsten

Deffo World of Warcraft.

Dont be at yourself

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

Ginger

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

Xavi6

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.

c - 13

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.

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.

Kinetic^

Jazzy wrote: »

easy

Solataire

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

+1 for Solitaire.

Canis Lupus

Chess?

Hide and seek?

Tag?

(you never specified computer game now did you)

Vegeta

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.

koneko

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

Maximilian

You're all idiots. Its Daikatana.

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.

mawk

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

silvine

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

K.O.Kiki

Solitaire.

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

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.

Retr0gamer

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.

jonski

I am inclined to think it is one of the above but for the sake of a new suggestion , online poker .

steviec

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.

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?

CiDeRmAn

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?

genericgoon

The Sims?

ballybay_eh

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).

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.

ballybay_eh

Love.



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Nevermind.

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.

corcaigh07

street fighter 2 on the megadrive. played a lot of Phantasy Star Online on dreamcast back in the day to level up my character as much as possible(think i got up to lv120 or so)

alannologo

hide and seek man

Mikeyt086

just to say football manager would be nowhere near the top 10.

only in the uk and ireland or maybe 5 people in the US.

Cosmonaut

age old question and the answer is solitaire (just double checked the gamers record book.) Though i also hoped it was Daikatana. So does John Romero

Epic Tissue

I call bull**** on that record. How would they get that information?

Praetorian

Solitaire of course. Never learnt how to play it

K.O.Kiki

Epic Tissue wrote: »

I call bull**** on that record. How would they get that information?

Assuming 25% of office workers & 10% of home users play Solitaire, and that the home-to-office ratio of Windows licenses is 50/50, that would make 17.5% of all Windows licenses.

How many millions has Microsoft sold again? :pac:

Also THIS.

thelordofcheese

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Also, given the ubiquitous nature of the Atari 2600 at one stage, perhaps Combat?

Ohh combat, i loved that game.
Bouncing shells for the win!

But i vote minesweeper, it's a real mans game, solitaire is for pussies

MOH

AntiVirus wrote: »

How do you know it was Minesweeper and not porn?

You could tell by the clicking. (Also, we'd no external net access)

Davidius

For the craic I'm just going to say it's Snake's Revenge...lol.

Krieg

World of warcraft math

Using xfire stats as a ref
6,787,636 minutes played in the last 7 days; take into account that wow is a bit of a down atm (less people playing due to no recently released content)
so lets round that off to 7,000,000 minutes average
7M mintues / 60 = 11,117 hours
Now assume 5% of people playing wow use xfire (its more likely less % than that). 11,117 @ 5% = 222,340 hours
That is 1 week, 1 year = 11,561,680
Multiply that by 3 (because wow only really gained its huge momentum after year 1)

34,685,040 hours +

pfff, **** that, Im sure its more. Ignore my crappy guess-timate-ory math

Anyways its a LOT and I personally believe it out weighs windows solitaire

eoin5

I'd go with solitare too, but if you combined all the pokemon releases (I'd say about 95% of them are the same game really anyway) itd b a contender. Theyve sold the best part of 100 million copies!

Ross_Mahon

Defo World Of Warcraft, I've lost many men to it, some call it the black plague.

homah_7ft

Krieg wrote: »

World of warcraft math

Using xfire stats as a ref
6,787,636 minutes played in the last 7 days; take into account that wow is a bit of a down atm (less people playing due to no recently released content)
so lets round that off to 7,000,000 minutes average
7M mintues / 60 = 11,117 hours
Now assume 5% of people playing wow use xfire (its more likely less % than that). 11,117 @ 5% = 222,340 hours
That is 1 week, 1 year = 11,561,680
Multiply that by 3 (because wow only really gained its huge momentum after year 1)

34,685,040 hours +

pfff, **** that, Im sure its more. Ignore my crappy guess-timate-ory math

Anyways its a LOT and I personally believe it out weighs windows solitaire

Off the top of my head calculation-
100,000,000 PCs all with Solitare installed.
Say each solitare is played for just for 5 minutes in the lifetime of each PC.

100,000,000 * 5 minutes=500,000,000 minutes
In hours 500,000,000 / 60 = 83,333,333 hours.

It wins since due to sheer volume of people it's available to.

guinnessdrinker

It's hard to argue against Homah's calculations. I'd say the original Space Invaders would be up there too, didn't people get seriously addicted to playing it back in the day.

steviec

homah_7ft wrote: »

Off the top of my head calculation-
100,000,000 PCs all with Solitare installed.
Say each solitare is played for just for 5 minutes in the lifetime of each PC.

100,000,000 * 5 minutes=500,000,000 minutes
In hours 500,000,000 / 60 = 83,333,333 hours.

It wins since due to sheer volume of people it's available to.

Not too sure about the maths.

The number of WoW subscriptions passed 10 million recently.

100 million solitaire users * 5 minutes = 10 million WoW players * 50 minutes

But the average WoW subsciption would be played for many many times more than 50 minutes. Probably 100 times more.

That said, I'd guess there's a lot more than 100 million solitaire equipped machines out there, and probably a fair bit more than an average of 5 minutes played per machine, so I do think Solitaire would win.

DonkeyStyle \o/

freecell prawns solitaire

CiDeRmAn

But shouldn't there be a distinction between a game that happens to be installed on the machine you just bought and a game you made a consious desicion to buy?
I mean, if that was the criteria then MS could've bundled any old crap and it would have made the top of this list.

MooseJam

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I mean, if that was the criteria then MS could've bundled any old crap and it would have made the top of this list.

that is infact what they did

sprinkles

Duke Nukem Forever?