Favourite Game and Impressive piece of hardware

Best game ever.......

Just want to know what game you played that gave you that something a bit extra...... The one you couldnt leave alone.... Up to the morining hours and how did you keep awake and how long did you play it for..

The reviews in magazines are a good point to start with but that dont include patch updates and how the game plays with age.....

Im into Battlefield 2142 at the mo, Battlefield 1942 as Desert Combat and Forgotten Hope did it for me but Vietnam and Battlefield 2 seemed to have got it wrong... Awkward to control.

Also who cares about Nvidia and AT videocards and there fan boys over the years i have had almost every brand of video card and chipset from trident to sis, matrox to 3dfx and ati to nvidia and i have been happy with all of them and have played all the games i wanted to play... They used to have 256k of video ram now there 1GB, i remember being the dogs nuts with a 1mb trident

But at the end of the day games need playability a lot more as fancy graphics move so fast now that its hard to appreciate the work that has been done to create them.

And as for AMD/Intel Fanboys the same goes for them i have had 286,486-dx33, dx2-50, dx2-66 dx4-100, Pentium P60 p75,p90, 120, p166, p200mmx, p2 in 233 and 266, p3 up to 1ghz, amd athlons, p4s, athlon 64s and x2 and now on core 2 duo awating me quad when they come down a bit.. And have all served me well untill software out dates them.

But what was the last piece of hardware that made you actually go WOW.

Mine was 3DFX

But i still play now and again Chuckie Egg, Paradroid, Impossible Mission, Montezumas revenge, Pacman, Dungeon Master, Elite, Mame which require 8bit or 16 bit and here we are in 64bit processors with god knows how many on video cards is it 256 bit still or has it moved to 512, dunno

I dont want a steep learing curve on everything i play, just jump in and get a score.... And what happend to scores in games lately --- bring some more back