Whats the longest you have played one game for continuously??

[chipbgt]

For me it would be starcraft back at Georgia Tech, we would play 8 way matches in the dorms for 20 straight hours sometimes. talk about geeks.

Incidentaly, I got Everquest back in the beginning of february, I have played it for a total of 4 days, 4 hours and 32 minutes in real time. Wow. When you put it that way, its kinda scary what I give my time to.

[seti]

Games are fun...but food is better.

The longest I've had a game running would be about 8 hours....civ2.

After that long I start getting restless and have to do something, anything else....like eat. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Apostle 83]

Hmmm... Back a few years ago, Aces over Europe, from Dynamix. Awesome game back then. Played it for 10 hours every saturday for a month, played it a lot for 6 months. Awesome game....

Do you need an emulator or something to get older comp games to work on new systems?

[seti]

I played Aces over the Pacific a LOT. That was an amazeing game back then.


About that emulator, if you're talking about how some old games run too fast...I once had a program that would effectively lower the speed of your cpu. I belive it was called "cpu kill" or something like that. Ha, I had to use it for space quest 6...there was a point in the game where it would crash because the cpu did something too fast.

[aleader]

Panzer General, 14 hours straight once. That's when I was in between semesters with no job. (My girlfriend -now wife- was none too pleased!)

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[Apostle 83]

Seti: Yeah man, I remember AOP... got it after AOE, wouldn't run on anything besides my 486 33mhz gateway. Ha, even then I had to make a bootdisk for it...

[deathtrap111]

hi
the longest i've played a game was c&c:red alert , i played it for 7 hours straight.

[scourge]

Used stay up all night every weekend when I was 12 to play Wizardry on my apple2c compatible laser computer (too bad I sold it). Start after dinner (7:00PM); fall asleep in the morning (7:00AM). Every weekend. What else you got to do when your 12?

[Toadman]

Doom 2, 20 minutes sessions thru each level.. what an overnighter that was.. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[mnx]

i played ut for 6 hours staright then i was too stiif to move, and my eyes hurt they were watering a lot too... perhaps if I had a better chair and video card / monitor combo I could play for longer...

mnx

[Eli]

Probably one of the old Forgotten Realms series (most likely Pool Of Radiance), on a C64 at the time. In the summer as a kid it was too easy to fire it up first thing in the morning and play it until dinner...

[Joel Kleppinger]

Continuously would probably go to Need For Speed High Stakes. I know I played it for 7 straight hours the first time, and I think there were a few days I played it for 10+. There was no game like that one. Thankfully, that only lasted a month... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I think the game I've played the most is an old EGA/VGA 5-on-5 basketball game - Magic Johnson's MVP. It was a blast on my VGA 386. I probably played 20-30 10-15 game seasons plus 5 game tournaments for every season (I was undefeated for 11 straight seasons once, including tournaments).

[Mntsnow]

LOL Joel http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif A few nights ago my wifem daughter and I got to playing NSF III and played for almost 3 hours straight over the network. (only quit because it was WAY past our daughters bedtime when I finally checked the time!)


But back to the topic of the tread..For me personally it was about 6-7 hours of MechWarrior.

Mntsnow

[AuraEdge]

i think one weekend i played TFC for 8-10 hours or so..and i only stopped cuz i got this strange blind spot right where my sniping laser usually paints. I ended up having a migrane an hour later, which lasted for the rest of the day..
People...GOTTA take breaks. I had a couple 10 hours sessions of Civ2, and SimCity2000, but niether of them were action, so no probs really.

[mattheadfat]

i played the sims for what felt was half an hour, but in reality, i was playing that piece of **** for 6 hours, didn't notice until my bedsores started to swell, ACK!

[OuTpaTienT]

You are all computer geeks. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

I think the longest I've played any one game (in one sitting) would have to be any of the Monopoly marathons I enjoyed in my pre- & early teens. As I remember, 12-15 hour games was usually par for the course.

And yes I'm talking about a real, physical, (analog) board game. Ya know, with real game pieces you can touch. And real opponents (that you can get highly peturbed with).

After the Monopoly phase, came a few years of World conquest...RISK! I seem to remember some of those games also going 15 or so hours as well.

...hmmm, does "head games" with a girlfriend count?

[U-96]

Computer games...

hmmmm a choice between...

1)Civilisation on the Amiga (mostly because of the strain of swapping 8 disks) 8-10hr sessions

2)X-Com UFO Enemy Unknown on the PS (all night on several occasions)

I have a job and a girlfriend now, so it's not possible to do that anymore...

Analogue games? well I used to play Warhammer, AD&D and DM Cthulu ("Dead? Oh no, it's much worse than that!"), so that could go on a while, and also used to do historical re-enactment (dressing up as Vikings and hitting etc other with blunt swords...) - we had long weekends of that stuff, for public shows, camping out, drinking, fighting, craft demonstrations, etc... guess it was a kind of game http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

U-96

[Nanonyth]

For me it must have been Jurrasic Park on the SNES. You couldn't save it and I had no clue what to do because it was in German. Must have played it for 10 hours straight...

[jadison]

Must admit, I got a lot of hours out of the 'ol Sega Genesis, around 17,520 total!! The longest I played a game was maybe 6-8 hours, Sonic the Hedgehog ruled!

As far as puter games:
-Raptor: Call of the Shadows
-Dynamix (an old one)
-Tornado (old flight sim)
-Lemmings (it was addictive, I admit)
-Solitaire (pathethic playing a card game, but hey, it was also addictive!)
-Super Munchers (that was an old one, when I was a kid)
-Doom
-Indy Car 500 (an old 486 game, I think it only had 16 colors total!)
-Jeez Ball
-Ski-Free
- Dave-Dude
-Quake 1 (only addictive until I beat the game the first day)


And that about does it, so far...

-jd-

PS. ALso, if only there was an easier way to play games on the puter laying down (facing up). If I had enough $$$ I'd get
-(VR)-, that'd be sweeet

[JeffD78]

I don't know the exact times on any of these, but here are some of the ones I used to constantly play.

Megatraveller 1&2. Anybody remember these?
Star Control 2. Another oldie but goodie.
Total Annihilation of course.
Homeworld more recently.
Outpost a while back.
Phantasmagoria. Anyone remember it?
All of the ***** Quest Games from Sierra.
Doom 1&2 once I finally had a computer that could handle them.
Baldur's Gate recently.
NFS series.
Quake 1-3

I'm sure there's others I don't remember.

[BP]

Yea Jurassic Park on SNES--20 hrs.No way to save so you had to keep playing til you won,which I couldn't do.I think the cartridge had a flaw,I got to the raptor eggs and tried everything and couldn't kill them---aaarrgghh!

[alan]

gauntlet on my trusty old speccy with the addon pack tape!!!!
long time ago
24hrs+ me and a mate took over a week to recover
ah! those were the days
alan http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Emc2]

Try 14 hours of multiplayer half-life during the millenium new year...when you're drunk you actually think you're some dude going around, jumping and killing. It hurt at 3:00 the next afternoon when I woke up though!

[Wilan Wong]

The longest game I played for is UT, I played it for 7 hours. The second would be Final Fanatasy VII I played it about 5 hours.

[PsyOps]

Ive played UT on friday for like 9 hours straight. The longest i have to say up to date was when i was majorly involved with Rainbow6.... I remember one friday starting at 9PM and going to be on saturday at 4PM.

I took a break at 12 to go and wash my face, **** was that silly. As soon as i went back to the chair i got another 4 hour boost. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

BTW< I recommend everyone on this forum to get Soldiers of Fortune if you havent. Talk about exitment.

[alpha]

Unreal - 9 hours at a LAN party. Ok, so we couldn't get the networking going.

UT - 5 hours

Doom - 12 hours at least

[Dayathbon]

Any one remember the MegaTraveller CRPG games by Paragon software before they went bankrupt about 8 years ago?? I played MT2 for aroung 8 hours one saturday... I remember starting at around 8 AM and checking my watch a "few" minutes later.. it was like 3 PM.. and I played till around 8PM (or later).. and about the food... hey who need's food when you have a 486 33 with 256 color's and you are like 12 or 13... it took me over a year playing like that a lot to beat that game.. the hardest sense Sierra's Gold Rush way way way back in the 80's... space quest 5 and KQ5 all took about 3 weeks part time... they were sssooo cheasy....

[Gouki]

I'm kinda surprised that no one has mentioned Thief up to this point. I loved that game!

When I first got it...there were quite a few nights where I played *ALL* night. No lights on in the room and playing with the headphones on. And on certain levels, that setting really pulled you into the game!

For those of you that have played Thief before...I'm sure you'll agree that the first time you encountered a spider (which are about the size of a small dog, lol) and heard them *HISSSSSSS* and then the clicking of their legs as they come after you...I think that was the first time I was actually *scared* by a game.

Now that Thief II is out...I'm sure that I'll be losing more sleep again. heh heh..

Gouki-

[Apostle 83]

Friday I played Armada.... started at 10 p.m.

Finished playing at 2:00 the next afternoon.

Two bathroom breaks.

[XT]

Im not a real big FPS player.. <SOF, Quake III, UT, etc.. I mostly like Racing games and I tolerate a few sports games. I Played need for speed III for about 4 hours straight the day I first got it. I still play need for speed I II se, and III, but having been playing 4 and 5 alot more!

Change is bad!

XT :-)

[wyvrn]

Everquest was a lot of fun until the servers got crowded. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif I guess for me it would be 8 hours of starcraft on our lan. 4 peoples on 4 peoples cannot be beat!

[Gutter Ball]

Yeah, it's Starcraft for me too. 8 people in an enclosed computer lab(didn't know if it was day or night out http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif ) Those 16 hours went by pretty fast! Didn't think I could play and eat at the same time! We only played about 7 games too! That was waaay fun! Now I'm working on Unreal Tournament! 12 people just running around shooting each other, then trash talking them? Too fun!

[Prospero]

Whatever the second privater was, rightious fire (spelling)? I played it for 23 hours strait to the win. Don't ask me how, I don't remember.

[Hellmund]

I played Starcraft Brood-war Expansion non-stop till I finished all three of the new campaigns for about a minimum of 48hours straight.Except for getting up to pay the pizza guy and going to the toilet it was a straight 2 days at least.My parents were on holiday so I gotta wasy with it but my eyes were blurry for about a day and I got RSI in my elbows from the keyboard and mouse.
Might seem pretty extreme but i had to finish the last level and it took dam near 6 hours.
Someone else should try that last level on the zerg campaign and see what it takes them without cheats.
Thank god I did it the first time
I did the same sorta thing with thief but it only took about 10hours stright on expert.

[This message has been edited by Hellmund (edited 04-09-2000).]

[Onslaught]

20+ hours, I was playing jeopardy on nintendo with friends.

[GroundZero3]

I played the thief demo and im hooked the only prob is i want more of it but no money :-( errr Is the new thief Good?

[Warthog]

Yikes!!! I could never play games for, like, 1 or 2 days straight! The most that I usually play games is about 4 or 5 hours. Played NFS 3 for 5 hours with a friend. When I got Rogue Spear, I played it for 3 hours. I've played it online before for 4 hours. Could play RS for hours in multiplayer, but I have limitations on phone line usage....if only I had another phone line......forget the phone line - if only I had a cable modem http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[rh71]

If you guys ever mudded, it's all text-based, so just imagine how long you can go without your eyes getting tired from all the motion... A LONG TIME.

[user0005]

I didn't feel like going to school so I went to a PC room (where you pay by the hour to use the computers, fast connections, eg DSL, T1) with my friends. Played Half-life's mod Counter-Strike for 6 hours, after I was done, man was I hungry. Lucky for me it was Wensday, my cheapo self went to McDonald's and ate 29cent hambergers. Just over spring break I went to play some over but never got to breaking the 6 hours, just got to reach 5.

[ablang]

A few years ago, I used to be a sick puppy. I used to go into the computer labs during X-max break at university (I worked there) all to myself at 8am and stop at 10pm -- 14 hours, with bathroom breaks of course.

[ablang]

I forgot to mention my obsession of choice.

Command & Conquer DOS version. I used to spend hours trying to beat all those missions created by people like yourself. It's too bad, no one could do that for Red Alert.

[jl123]

I've spent this last week playing Rainbow Six and NHL2000. I'm hopeing to get Rogue Spear http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I've played these 2 games for about 6 hours. One day R6, next day NHL2000. I can really only play these games for 6 hours because i get home at 3:13 and start at 4:00 because i eat http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Then i'll play til about 10 or 11. I'm glad i'm not alone in this http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel(jl123)

[Compubrain]

Back when Gemstone was still on AOL for free, I played it once for at least 12 hours straight. The rest of my family was gone overnight, so I was on it almost the whole time. It was a while before my parents let me stay home overnight without them after that, believe me!

[GroundZero3]

I played and finished Metal Gear Solid in 17 hours. Awsome game does anyone know if there coming out with a second one?

[baron888]

Played Quake 2 for 9-10 in the computer lab with four other people in cluding our professor, the thing I remember most is my friends giggle every time he got killed.

[voogru]

The longest Game i ever played is when i was about 7 It was simcity 2000 i started playing it about 2:30 Pm i kept playing till 9:30 pm The Next day! and dont forget AOE2 which i played frome 8:30 am im the morning to about 6:00 am the next morning.

if you dont believe me thats your problem!

[Spiderdrake]

Wow I am so unimpressed *kidding* with you people ... or am I just depressed by my rampant nerdiness ?

I think I played X-Com, Moo, Outpost and a ton of cool titles for at least six hours straight day after day.

Nothing beats me and Diablo though. went a full 26 hours the one day. Didn't move once ! Just playing Diablo over B.net. Those were the days *sniffes*

[chipbgt]

Couldnt sit and play Diablo that long because of all the rampant cheating..took away from the fun of it. still an awesome game though.

[PCnerd]

Driver for me about 14 hours, but my brother beat me on AOK when he played it online. Now after getting AOK for him I can bearly play my games. He starts on Friday and plays half of Saturday, then my father plays the second part of Saturday http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif (Note: my PC is used for games, because there arent many games for Macs)Games is the only reason why I got Windoze.

[Red Rage]

Pool of Radience on my old 880 The most addictive game i ever play'd

nearly 5 days straight, Had chick'n pox so all i did was sit in front of the screen and itch, ate at the PC, I didn't sleep much cause of the itching I'd say maybe an hour here an hour there... never did beat it.. duno if you can http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

After that its a toss up between Quake, Final Fantasy (the orginal) and Top Gear for SNES

[Szech]

I bought Half-life one Saturday morning, and I played until Sunday morning. When I got off my computer, I had a HORRIBLE headache. But I got all the way to Xen in that amount of time. Wasn't worth it though.

[locosbacos]

I'm a mudding fanatic. I've played on ravenloft for over 13 hours with one or two bathroom brakes. I love my vampire (bender).

[RobRich]

I think I played Quake2 one time for around 20 hours. I was the first time I played it, and it proved to be highly addictive. For the most part, I usually just game around 20-30 minutes at a time.

Robert Richmond

[disciple]

16 hours doing team fortress classic. man my legs hurt so bad. but it was fun good connection great server i think it was on one of hatamotos.

[rtyp3]

GROUNDZERO3-
Oh yeah there coming out with a second one. It's coming to PS2 and it looks badass so far. It's called Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. You can check it out at http://www.thegia.com/psx2/mgs2/mgs2.html
They've also got some videos too.

[Easttuth]

I am the saddest of the sad.

26 hours straight, played Final Fantasy 1 on NES from beginning to end in one sitting.

Used up all 50 hours of a free AOL trial playing Dragonrealms (Simutronics). Real time elapsed: 1 weekend.

12 hours straight, camping one single item in Everquest. *cough*

31 hours, one 30 minute rest stop for a bite to eat, Asheron's Call.

September 13, 1999 to November 13, 1999, I logged 720 hours on Asheron's Call. Addicting yes, now in the past two weeks I've played a total of about 2 hours. Hee http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Easttuth

[Slack]

I played Subspace(if anyone remembers that game) for about 4hrs straight.

That's quite long to me. LOL

[chipbgt]

Eastuth,

Did you get the item you wanted in EQ?

12 hours just doesnt seem long enough for most camped items http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

I had to get rid of EQ....eating all my time up http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif Oh how I miss my human ranger and dwarven cleric, Bailyn and Wailyn.

[voogru]

Half-Life

[RCN_Moose]

You're all forgetting the CLASSICS-
When I first got my Atari 2600 (think it was 1978 http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif), I would play Space Invaders, Pac Man, and Asteriods for hours with my sister. 10 Hours of Asteriods+

Man those were the days. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Moose

[Dash]

I can remember years ago when my cousins would come over, one time I had new game XCOM : UFO Defense, played WHOLE weekend, stopped for sleep and food, I got up at 5:30 just so I could play before the rest of them and my brother, ah I miss those days, careless weekends, no homework, ahh...

Same thing with Privateer, one of us reading manual, one playing, 2 messin around, 30 mins later, switch, all day, 6am - 2am or so.

Wish I could go back 5 years or so.

[This message has been edited by Dash (edited 06-04-2000).]

[Wormo]

I would have to say the 1st Contra, played that for hours and hours, that was before the code though!

[Zelgadis]

Only game I could remember playing long was FFIII on Super Nintendo (US version). I believe I played it for 14 hours. One of the greatest if not the greatest RPG. Final Fantasy in my opinion has never lived up to that game. FFVII was good, but I guess it was my first FF game (FFIII) and you remember your first one.

Zel

[rtyp3]

Final Fantasy VII
I became addicted to that game! I played it for 4 days nonstop. (It was christmas vacation so I could) Sometimes I skipped meals, I just couldn't put it down! The timer went up to 99:99, and I played it about twice that much!

[Easttuth]

man, what did you do in FF7 for 200 hours? I played 72 and I was stocked.. all magicite, economizer, magic box, you name it. I even killed the little cactus guy in the amphitheatre. LOL!

[Easttuth]

Contra Code...

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B + A + select + start.

That worked on **** near 50% of NES games =)

[mudoggy]

C64:
Battle of Antietam
Lode Runner (made killer levels)
Air Support
Blue Max
Seven Cities of Gold

Amiga:
Silent Service II awesome
Empire (hours.. took forever to build stuff, and even longer to move it to where you needed it!)
Sim City

PC:
SimCity2000
NHL 2000
Age of Rifles (Wargame Const. Set III)
Tie Fighter
Imperialism (evil time consuming game)
Air Warrior - was a game on AOL, you fly against at least 40 people... bombers, fighters, etc.. awesome game despite the not-so-refined graphics and AOL disconnection troubles. It became too popular, and the began charging for it.

Boardgame:

Axis and Allies by far the game I have played for the longest stretch, in college. There's something about all the plastic figures, chips, and money that the computer version can't quite capture (although it's fun, especially online!).
Several times we would start after dinner on Friday, play til 2 am, sleep for a while, start again satruday at 10 or 11 am , break for lunch and dinner, play til 2am, sleep, and sunday finish up around dinnertime (if someone hadn't wiped everybody out by then.). Of course, we also sometimes modified the rules that only world conquest would do, so you you and your ally/partner defeated the enemy, you then battle for supremacy of the world.

Yes, those were ideed the days! hahahaha
Was a pain doing homework afterword though.. pulling all nighters after gaming all night.. ouch.


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[Wiz]

remember Rampage?? i played game for 3 days striaght, just kept repeating, and destroying the US. lol

[Pepto]

I must admit I was completely addicted to a MUD (www.strangemud.net) for a while.. Started playing at 8am and didn't stop till it was dark out. Lots of fun http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Pep


[This message has been edited by Pepto (edited 06-24-2000).]

[ck42866]

8 hours, the old NES system. hmmm, those were the days. No work, gaming till whenever and then sleep then the cycle begins all over again.

[Ironforge]

I have been playing games for a long time.. I remember playing the demo for police quest1 in software etc.. heh

Anyway.. the longest I've every played a game straight, without any breaks, was Diablo. Played for 21 hours straight.. started at around noon after I bought it and played till after the sun went down the next day.. heh

[Shnak]

don't remember... maybe 11 hours playing Transport Tycoon Deluxe... man I LOVED THIS GAME!

And if there were a TT2k, I'd be the first one to buy it! It was awsome!!!

Later,
Shnak

[danthanol]

Master of Orion, 76 hours straight...
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
...just kidding
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
but I did play it for a long time.

[chipbgt]

update.....played scorched earth for 5 hours...not much but I am building up my endurance http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Diode]

LAN Party at UCI from Friday Evening till Sunday afternoon. We stopped when the girls never came back to continue feeding us.

-JP

[BL00EY!]

TRIBES TRIBES TRIBES!!!!
longest i ever played was around 21-22 hours.
I usually setup some sandwiches a cokes in a mini fridge about a foot away from my box lol. Youd've thought i'da learned....

[gmpirate]

Civilization!!!

I've played that game at least 30 hours straight before a few times. Too addicting. I kept saying i'll quit just as soon as I accomplish this, no this, no this . . . I was always in the middle of something so I couldn't quit. Maybe if the game had not made it impossible to beat the Emporer level I could have quit. Just when I had achieved control of the planet the computer always seemed to pull off some miraculous victories. Like one tank capuring one of my walled cities with 10 tanks fortified inside . . .

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

I think that it should be a rule that if you watch the sun come up or go down twice in one sitting.. then you should give sleep a try, plus at that point all you will think about while your sleeping will be the game that you just played for a day straight!

For me it would have to be Everquest, it takes at least an hour to go up one lvl and forget about camping for a specific item... some creatures only spawn once or twice a day! Other than that SimCity2000/3000, The Sims, Diablo and now Diablo2 ( finally ), Warcraft & Starcraft...

Hours and hours of my life... I need to find a way to get paid for this, hehe http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Oli]

40 hours : Civilization I and Colonial Conquest (aka: the great lier)