I first played The Settlers at a friends house when I was eight or nine in the late 90s and became hooked. A few months later I recognised the game art on a box in Game and asked my parents to buy it for me.
It turns out I had bought the sequal The Settlers II and while my Dad enjoyed playing through the entire story line, I enjoyed maxing out the levels, building everywhere and on one occurance managed to get to a point where all production in the game just stopped.
I haven’t played it in years, but for a period of my childhood it consumed hundreds of hours of my time.
