If you could only have one game, what would you choose?

[N.J.]

Without ever playing Gran Turismo, and next to Grand Prix Legends & NFS Porsche Unleashed, my vote goes to the reason I bought a PC in the first place...

...Back in the '80s, Test Drive 1 & Test Drive 2 (F40/959) on the old Commodore 64 were HUGE to me.

After a few years, I ended up with the Commodore Amiga...but it wasn't until 1994/1995 when I was walking through a shopping centre, I looked into a computer store and could see all these people crowded around what looked like some brand new game...after taking a closer look, it was a car game - which while looking quite impressive, upon initial impressions looked like another pretty arcade game...but then I saw the dashboards of the cars! car historys, videos, voiceovers - this game was IT!! (The Need For Speed)

I immediately bought this PC-CD game even without a PC to start with. I remember taking the game to a friends house and played it for a few months on a 486 DX2-66 and actually had to turn down some of the options down so it could play properly.

When I bought my first pc - a Pentium 1 120 - this game ROCKED!

Like I said before, I didn't really put it down until NFS 5 Porsche Unleashed came out in 2000. (all the other NFS's were extremely disappointing - EA had obviously lost the plot and forgot what made the original great)


In all honesty, I'd still have 'The Need For Speed' installed now - almost 10 years later - on my Pentium 3 933 XP Pro if I could get it to run properly. (I think I might have to organise part of the hard drive back to FAT32 rather then everything NFS - or I could just install NFS on the old computer in the cupboard...)






ANYWAY - I VOTE FOR 'The Need For Speed (1995)


What would you guys go for?