Computer games
these are the games i've turned to through the years whenever I was supposed to be doing something important:

Elite
Populous
Sensible Soccer
Premier Manager
Sim City
Championship Manager
Civilization
Age of Empires
Runescape

They probably account for about 5% of my lifetime. On the plus side, I don't watch much TV.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 19:21, 21 replies)

Not to mention
World of Warcraft.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 19:24, closed)

After playing Runescape every day
for the best part of 2 years from waking up to going to bed, I decided no more MMORPGs!
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 19:27, closed)

Woo
for Populous :]
(Badgers wear Corpsepaint it's true, I've seen them..., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 19:59, closed)

Damn right!

( MCQ Cartoons n' shit: bagowank.com, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 20:47, closed)

I downloaded a port of Elite recently
and it took out another good week of my life. It's aged well.
( Peregr1n @peregr1n, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 20:23, closed)

Me too
a few months back and the same fondueing bug that screwed up my games on the Amiga all those years ago struck again - you wait outside a space station for the character that you have to assassinate and they never show up. Accept any number of missions from then on and none of them ever show up. Why can't some carrot fix that??? I'd do it myself if I wasn't thick.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 21:12, closed)

I still play this game...
Not to mention: Frontier:Elite 2 and Frontier First Encounters (Elite 3).

This bug is in all of them it seems, the trick is to not hyperspace into the system AT ALL if you're more than 28 days away from the target date.

I found that answer about 10 years ago and it seems to 'fix' the problem.
(Mensa Reject has gone out, I'll be back on, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 2:09, closed)

Excellent
might have to give it another go...
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 8:24, closed)

I've spent many weeks playing Elite...
... But i'm HOOKED on X3: Terran Conflict at the moment... I think I got 2 hours sleep last night!
(AQ, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 10:12, closed)

Surely
You can't leave Graham Taylor's Soccer Challenge from your list?!
(Jimmy Large Is huffing Jenkem on, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 20:46, closed)

Have I
never heard of that?
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 21:06, closed)

You do have
an excellent taste in games.
(Vulpine or something, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 21:30, closed)

well...
I watch less than an hour of TV a day and spend bloody ages on source engine games and mods. when I started going on half life 2 I got nothing done for several days. I did both the episodes over a weekend, along with lost coast and a couple of maps I got for episode 2 (saw, berlin wall).
(venort apparently exists, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 6:43, closed)

I feel the presence of a fellow Amiga user
I had to pack my Amiga away in 1995 so that I would concentrate on my A-Levels
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 10:19, closed)

I should have done that
A (General Studies)
E
N
U

*sob*
(kebabking - salad and garlic mayo pls, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 13:11, closed)

If you'd like another suggestion
Homeworld seems to absorb my time rather well.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 10:26, closed)

I've just downloaded
an update for Champ Man 01/02 to update it to this season, my god it's good!
(gin'll fix it, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 12:02, closed)

Jagged Alliance 2
It's suprising how many hours of amusement can be extracted from a game so devoid of content.

Cheekily downloaded the Wildfire expansion pack only to find it is in Polish and I can't figure out how to change it (if it's even possible). Oh well, we live and learn.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 16:03, closed)

I've spent
5 years playing Eve Online

0__o
(kebabking - salad and garlic mayo pls, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 13:12, closed)

Mine's
Total war series, i've just found a mod wich converts total rome into LOTR. arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhh please let me go!
(Batemonkey, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 16:13, closed)

Ah, Elite
You know, if I had my whole life again I'd look at the time I wasted playing Elite and happily waste it all over again. Strong contender for best game ever.
( calgacus Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 22:29, closed)