Ten Most Addictive Video Games of All-Time

Earlier this year MSNBC.com listed the five video games that they thought were the most addictive video games of all-time. There were a couple of video games on their list that I thought were good choices and a few that I didn't agree with.

I thought I would make my own list of what I think are the ten (technically twelve) most addictive video games of all-time. These aren't necessarily just the games that I personally found most addictive because then the list would have to include games like Monster Rancher, Suikoden, Double Dragon, Pirates! and others. These are games that I think are generally addictive to everybody. I'm sure some of you will have different opinions though.

Of course MSNBC.com made their list as a warning to parents that those games might be too addictive for their children to play. As a video game fan though I say these are the games you should be playing, although I agree that the amount of time you play should be limited.

10. Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter
When going to the arcade was still a hip thing to do there were no two games that got the amount of play time as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Every time I would visit the arcade not only would there be people playing Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter but there would also be at least two, sometimes as many as ten, people waiting to play. I preferred Mortal Kombat but it's hard to put one on the list without including the other because they were both so popular.

Honorable Mention: Pac-Man. Pac-Man is ultra popular, but I'm not sure it quite fits under the addictive category, just really popular.

9. Solitaire
It's a typical day at work. You're on your lunch break or you're just doing anything at the moment. You look for something to do on the computer and decide to play Solitaire. Next thing you know it's four hours later and you now have a stack of work to do. We've all been there before. Whenever you lose track of time playing a game it's a good sign that the game is very addictive.