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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 02:32 PM
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Your longest gaming session?

State the game and the duration you played, and any other fond memories

Myself, I probably spent about 6+ hours at once playing Counterstrike.
Other than that, I'm sure I spent about 4+ hours on many games on the SNES like mortal kombat, street fighter, mario
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 02:40 PM
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6 hours playing GT Racing 2002 with 3 friends over LAN... that was the longest time for a single game - I can't remember how many all-nighters we've done with various games and systems over the years...
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 02:44 PM
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oh shit I forgot about LAN gaming, with LAN gaming I must have spent about a good 8+ hours playing quake II with friends on a LAN.... i was a such a geek in highschool...we lan partied
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by rise
State the game and the duration you played, and any other fond memories

Myself, I probably spent about 6+ hours at once playing Counterstrike.
Counterstrike was the shit, I once spent about 6 hours straight on it and ended up dreaming about it when I went to sleep
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 03:00 PM
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At least 30 hours straight without sleep at a weekend LAN party. The main game was Unreal Tournament
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 03:11 PM
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I'd say about 4-5 hours...playing Gran Turismo. And believe it or not, it was always the License stages.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 03:17 PM
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1-2 hours i get bored after that
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 03:20 PM
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I put in about 6 hours on Age of Empires (online)

I put some hours into The Sims and really didn't get it.

I used to play a lot of Sim City.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 03:22 PM
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well the day of a diablo 2 ladder reset, i was on and off for most of the day waiting. at about 6 pm it finally reset. i played till about 5 in the morning
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 04:14 PM
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3 hours once playing Splinter Cell.
I don't play for very long spans of time.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 04:20 PM
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14 hours ... Rainbow Six. Yes, I'm a gaming geek.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 04:28 PM
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20+ hours playing in a Goldeneye tournament

Oh and my buddies and I would play Diablo II for hours on end.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 04:38 PM
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oh... longest solo gaming session was probably 3-4 hours, maybe 5, of Gran Turismo. Also used to put in some good solo hours with Populous I/II, SimCity, Dark Reign, Starcraft, and a few other RTS's...
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 04:46 PM
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freshman year....starcraft on LAN with my friends....we were gaming untill like 4 in the morning and had been playing since earlier that night...i ate dinner and everything while playing starcraft


i probably wasted a year of my young life playing starcraft over LAN, same with CS

the other day i played DOD source almost all day....even skipped 3 of my classes so i could go play
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 05:05 PM
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Nowadays I can't play for more than 40 minutes at once. The gamer inside me is slowly dying
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 05:29 PM
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Tetris on the Game Boy. I used to see the blocks on the ceiling at night.....Seriously.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Whiskers
Tetris on the Game Boy. I used to see the blocks on the ceiling at night.....Seriously.
hahaha... I played Super SFII so much in college that I would see fights going on like, at almost anytime.. any waking moment, I could see some fragments of fighting going on.. kinda like how you see sunspots.. lol.

If I play Gran Turismo for a long time when I get out and drive my car I feel like driving faster and taking turns faster... it's weird how games can do that to you... and, it's not hard to believe that games can affect ppl with self-control issues in negative ways...
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 08:46 PM
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lets see ive played like 12 hours of CS, 12 hours of Half life 2, 8 hours of MGS 2 and 3, 4-5 hours of GT3 and 4, uhh... thats about all i can remember right now.. im such a nerd no wonder why i scare all the girls away
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Mizouse
lets see ive played like 12 hours of CS, 12 hours of Half life 2, 8 hours of MGS 2 and 3, 4-5 hours of GT3 and 4, uhh... thats about all i can remember right now.. im such a nerd no wonder why i scare all the girls away
Find a cool girl who doesnt mind video games and maybe even plays them now and then

They do exist.. my girlfriend will play Tekken and kick my ass
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 09:13 PM
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20 hours on xbox live, but not in one game. Did pgr2 with one group for a while, then rb63 for a hour, then back to pgr as i recall, that was a while ago, when i had time.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 09:13 PM
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18 hours playing Half- life and then Unreal Tournament. I completely wasted my fall semester playing computer games and messing with girls.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by btsilver
18 hours playing Half- life and then Unreal Tournament. I completely wasted my fall semester playing computer games and messing with girls.
I thought that was the ideal way to spend a semester in college
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 09:29 PM
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Played Diablo II with college friends on our LAN for somewhere around 24 hours

I miss college
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 10:19 PM
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something like 33 hours or so playing WoW. over the summer i decided i wanted to get an entire set, so i kept raiding until i got all the items

fucking waste of my life...so stupid
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 10:22 PM
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 10:00 AM
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5 hours on Ikari Warriors
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 12:11 PM
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12+ hours playing legend of zelda, 12+ hours playing prince of persia: warior within, only took me 6-8 hours to beat the first POP: sands of time.
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 04:34 PM
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starcraft was my crack while at school
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 06:26 PM
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many 4-5 hr CS sessions...

more recently a 12 pm - 7 am session of Conquer Online. (a f2d/l f2p mmorpg)
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by btsilver
18 hours playing Half- life and then Unreal Tournament. I completely wasted my fall semester playing computer games and messing with girls.
Originally Posted by Ken1997TL
I thought that was the ideal way to spend a semester in college
i have yet to experience a quarter/semester of college like that
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 11:21 PM
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Mizouse, put the video games down, and go get laid pls. kthx.
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Old Oct 4, 2005 | 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by F-C
5 hours on Ikari Warriors

holy shit...that brought back so many memories
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 07:09 PM
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On Saturday night, I put in about 3 hours playing Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts from Capcom Classics on the PS2...Got to Level 4 boss...

Either they made the game harder or I've lost a step (finished this game back when I had it on the SNES)...
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 08:19 PM
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^^^damn......

btw check this article on video game addiction from just a couple of days ago.....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.gam....ap/index.html

some CNN rep must have seen this thread at AZ and got inspired

good one Y
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 08:24 PM
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I don't know how long it took, but I've definitely played Final Fantasy I, II (US), and III (US) in a single sitting (each, not all three at once).

That's gotta be at least 20 hours each.

I just got the PS1 games that have FF I, II, and IV-VI on them (Anthology, Chronicles, Origins) because it had been so long since I had played them ... now I can barely last 3 hours without getting sleepy.
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 08:25 PM
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6 hours on HALO 2 XBOX live
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by agui
starcraft was my crack while at school
that and galatic battlegorund STAR WARS
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 09:35 PM
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Mizouse, put the video games down, and go get laid pls. kthx.
if only it was that easy besides i dont even really play video games that much anymore, my grades already have suffered enough from that
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
On Saturday night, I put in about 3 hours playing Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts from Capcom Classics on the PS2...Got to Level 4 boss...

Either they made the game harder or I've lost a step (finished this game back when I had it on the SNES)...
nah...you're just a little rusty
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 10:14 PM
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18 hour sessions on Everquest.

Total days played over 4+ years: 300+ days. I got layed-off of work and played full time for 9 months collecting unemployement and selling ingame items for $$. Made $9k over that time

I'm glad i stopped
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