Excerpt from the original www.1up.com article:If you could play just one game for the rest of your life, what would it be? Would you hope to milk more hours of joy out of an all-time favorite? Or would you be more pragmatic, cunningly selecting an epic game for longevity and replay value? When the chips are down, what's the one game that would bring you the most entertainment over the longest period of time?
We turned to some of the best-known personalities in the videogame industry to answer these very questions -- and asked everyone at the 1UP Network to weigh in as well. Here's the scenario: You're about to be stranded on a deserted island. You can bring just one game with you, on any system. But here's the catch: While the island has electricity, it doesn't have Internet access -- so the easy, open-ended choices like MMORPGs are right out. And we added another wrinkle for our developer friends: They weren't allowed to pick their own games.
We asked each respondent to pick just one desert island disc, but we knew it would be a tough decision. So we allowed each person to name one more desert island discard, a game that almost made the cut...but not quite.
Think you know what games your favorite industry personalities might choose? Find out inside........
READ MORESo I thought We'd have our very own Desert Island Discs. Remember that your favorite all-time game may not necessarily fit the bill for longevity and we're talking years maybe even decades so choose wisely, same for the "runner-up"Game:Command & Conquer: Red AlertThis game I can play for minutes, hours, or even days straight. I never get bored of it, and am still hopelessly addicted after all these years. Few games can make the time pass like this one can. I couldn't count how many times I've missed a meal or pulled an all-nighter for this game. What better to take with you than an endless source of entertainment.
Runner-up: Tetris DXMy favorite version of Tetris and probably the game that gets more play than anything else I own for any system period. It's runner-up because as good and addicting as it is it doesn't have the variety and scope of involvement that C&C has. But it's a close second because I play it almost every day, makes a nice unwind distraction before bedtime.
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