I also had a card from the card game based on this episode.

I think this is my favorite episode. It starts out with a sleazy Riker who picks up a virus (the game) from some woman of loose morals, and then works on infecting the whole crew, who really REALLY enjoy the game perhaps a bit too much.

The only bad part is that Hero Wesley is very difficult to accept.

I need to watch this episode again now that you've enlightened me to it all being a metaphor for mind-controlling space herpes.

First time I saw this was during my teenage years while I was deep in my Diablo 2 addiction phase.

It spoke to me. Made me grind meph more.

I hope so. I'd like to see an episode with the entire Enterprise addicted to playing Custer's Revenge.

Custer's Revenge is actually more complex a game than the one they were playing in this episode. The entire game is just "Put a ball in a cup."

We all watched it because if you didn't have cable There Was Nothing Better To Watch!