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9 Video games so addictive that we can not stop playing, what is your perdition?

Videogames were born to give us hours and hours of fun , and from its first games for arcade salons, the addiction component was always present . It is part of the DNA of the videogames, from the moment when the monetization of them was based on getting the player to cast more and more coins to feel that adrenaline again. An effect that has always taken advantage of it to generate different controversies.

However, far from the debate on the problems derived from an unhealthy management of videogame consumption, it is undeniable that there are few more satisfying sensations in this hobby as we can find a game from which we can not stop playing . That moment in which we planned to stop playing several hours ago but we do not stop repeating ourselves come only one more .

The addictive component in videogames is part of its DNA It is difficult to make a small selection of those who managed to catch us, those who lived the era of the arcade and had to scratch their pockets after ingenious formulas To convince our parents and grandparents to give us some coins that dropped into the machine, they know perfectly how that sensation is. Games like Metal Slug or Cadillacs and Dinosours They did not allow us to stop throwing coins until they could completely empty the pockets.

That adrenaline and the snapshot need to feel again Fight Games Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat , added the pique component with friends, in which we no longer just played the coin we were throwing To challenge our rival, we played our prestige at the store . But before they, the classics like Pac-Man, Galaga, Space Invaders, Galaxian or Donkey Kong got such hitch from the players, that urban legends spoke of shortage of coins of 100 yen in Japan.

After the era of the arcade, it arrived The era of the cybercafés , and with them a whole generation of PC games that managed to stay engaged during hours and hours While we talked to cries with our friends and rivals. Counter Strike, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena , were some of the classics shots with which the hours flew.

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To tell you about this effect and some of the games that had most got to catch in recent times, we made a special video in which we collect some of the most famous, large moba as league of legends or endow 2 , the endless universe of World of Warcraft or management games like Football Manager , were some of those who highlight then.

But that feeling of adrenaline and snapshot need to feel again has not disappeared over the years and The indie market boom has recovered gender as the rogueike , which carry the concept of hooking to another level. Since they have given us hundreds of hours, sleeping nights and longer sessions than we would like to recognize, we wanted to collect some of those games that are simply an authentic vice .

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