It has to be winning eleven eight for me. I've been playing this game since like 2012.
The first time I played this game was when I was in school, university that is. I was in 100 level and there was this guy with a laptop then. He was the one only one who had a laptop in the room. He had winning eleven installed and was playing it regularly. I remember how his friends, that is his course mates, used to come to the room and would play with him. I got interested in the game.
After about a month or two, I picked up and started joining them. We would take rounds. Sometimes, I didn't get to play for up to an hour but I I'd wait for my turn still.
On Saturdays, we would play for protracted periods, sometimes beginning as early as 8am and not finishing till 11pm or thereabout. I became addicted to it. We only stopped when the laptop owner said his device needed to rest.
I got my first laptop in 2015. It was fairly used but worked quite well. One of the first things I made sure to install was Winning Eleven eight. I began playing it every single day. Luckily for me, that year was my FPT year and so there wasn't much work to do. We just went for morning lectures which were mainly practical and we would finish before 12pm. I would play from when I returned till late at night. I just couldn't stop.
Some months later, during normal semester break, we were obliged to stay back in school as the FPT was for the whole period without break. We would get out of school to companies to learn practical. I had the room in the hostel to myself as all my roommates went home for the holidays. I would return by 3pm or earlier and play till it was nearly midnight. I think I got the battery of the laptop bad in the process.
Now, it's 2018 and I'm done with school. I have another laptop but I still can't get it over this game. I dont play it as frequently but I still do frome time to time. It's not as though Winning Eleven 8 has the best graphics or game play. I think it's probably due to the memories that's are attached to the game. So many persons gave come and gone since 2012. Playing Winning Eleven 8 is my way of remembering them.