Simple really if you could pick one game and one game only to play for the rest of your days on a desert island, what would it be?
I'm instigating the following rules.
1. Although the island has its own power station and electricity supply, there is no internet.
2. You are there all alone with no-one else to play with/against
3. Compilations are not allowed
I figure you'd have to go for something with an infinite scope for improving skills and score. That pretty much rules out all the RPG games, bar Daggerfall and Morrowind. I'm leaning towards Daytona at the moment, although I think that might get pretty dull after a year or two of skill honing. VF4 Evo has potential with its sort of quest mode…
And yes it is a slow day at work 
Sega Rally...Saturn
Gotta be, that game is impossible to totally nail 100%. It's so solid as a game, cause and effect are right infront of you. Precise control, great courses, and trying to master the Stratos could take a while. It's so immediate that you could whack it on for 5 minutes, go shoot some monkeys and then turn it on again. Or say you're stuck in a monsoon, that could give decades of entertainment.
Never really convinced about the Lakeside course though.
go shoot some monkeys
Jeez, thanks for lowering the tone
. I hope you wash your hands before picking the controller back up.
On your own on a desert island? You'd be spanking the monkey, not shooting it*
Bland, but Tetris I reckon. Has to be a puzzle game that has no theoretical end.
*That lame joke reminds me of another lame joke related to this.
A man gets washed up on a desert island. After a few days of wandering round, he realises it has lots of fruit, fresh water and shelter and is quite idyllic.
As the months pass, though, he realises he's lonely in the trouser department (as you would be), and the aforementioned monkey abuse isn't doing the job. One day, he hears a distant squealing sound. Investigating, he sees a little pig running around the island. Desperate to nail a living creature, he starts chasing this pig around in a mad attempt to sink the pork, so to speak.
After a few intense minutes of legging around after the porcine paramour, he stops for a breather. Once again, he hears an unusual sound: this time, it's loud cries for help. Running to the shore, he spots a swimmer in trouble a few hundred yards out. Swimming powerfully away, he rescues the figure and drags it up the sand. Looking down, he sees it's a beautiful woman. Her eyes are filled with relief and happiness. She says "Oh, thank you, thank you! I'll do anything you want. Anything!"
So the man says, "ok, get up and help me catch this fucking pig!"
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♫ I promise to commit no acts of violence,
Neither physical or otherwise,
If things come alive
VF4 is a good one.
There are some obvious choices in arcade games that could take years to master; Tempest 3000, Band Brothers, Amplitude, Psyvariar 2, Super Monkey Ball, F-355... there has to be something better suited though.
I suppose you could go for Taiko no Tatsujin or Samba de Amigo and develop some decent pecs. Or... Shenmue II and work the pin games - might count as a compilation though (snook OutRun in there too).
Nah, sod it. I'd want to spend the rest of my life trying to get the perfect Space Channel 5 Part 2 play through
No matter how much I play it, it still makes me as happy as an idiot, and I never tire of that.
Tough one! I would have said F355 but it would get old, just one car and all that. Also i'm not sure I could put up with a puzzle game forever. I reckon it might just annoy me and I would end up playing nothing. I think I would go with Wings on the Amiga, it takes an age to complete.Or maybe a sports game, one with some really tough difficulty levels.
I was going to plump for Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike.....and i still am actually.
I would love to possess an unstoppable Ibuki, a fritnin Q and even Yang one day.
And maybe learn the murderous art of 'charge partitioning'.
Tis all good!