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"A break from gaming every how often?"

Was it 15 minutes break for every hour or for every day?


Many years ago I could go to my friend's house and we'd play Fifa on his megadrive for hours, we'd just lose track of time completely.
Games that can do that seem to be getting rare these days.
However....

Yesterday at around 1.30, 2pm I was mowing the garden when it started raining. 2 o'clock, maybe 2.30 and I was starting up Skies of Arcadia.

5.30 I decided to stop.

'No problem there' you say?

It was 5.30 AM! ¦^|


Yep, with around 10 or 15 minutes for lunch, no dinner and two toilet breaks, 15 hours of my life slipped by.
The scariest thing was it felt like it could have just been a couple of hours :^S

By the time I went to bed little lights dancing in front of my right eye, drool all down my shirt and I was subconsciously chanting 'lambda burst.. pukow'.
I fell straight to sleep though.
Well, after I collapsed in an epilleptic fit.


One question though: Did anyone else notice the damp-looking mark on fina's robe? Like she's peed herself?


Anyway, I'm off to finish cutting the grass.

I used to play Zelda: wind Waker into the early hours and a bit of skies... once they story got going.

You should take note of those warnings.

I have now developed a recurring eye twitch.

Sounds like a challenge to me...

I played Worms for 14 hours straight. Only stopping to put the kettle on and random intervals.

I went one better - I unplugged the kettle and moved all the hot drink paraphenalia next to my computer so that I could carry on playing.

Yes, I remember the day I played Mystical Ninja on the N64 from start to finish because my memory card wasn't working.

17 hours....

My old friend Dave Ashley-Smith (or Ashley Smythe as we called him) actually played Baldur's Gate for over 50 hours stopping only to feed and for toilet breaks. We were half-concerned that he was going to kill himself...

That did make me laugh. And ruefully nod my head. I've seen countless hours slip away without even realising it. Sheer madness, I know.

There's a voice in the back of your head saying, "You idiot. You've got work tomorrow and there are only 5 hours of sleep left."

But you supress that idiotic voice and carry on regardless.

Actually, once I took 7 hours on FireWarrior :-\

I'm a bit liek that with Skies, but my longest run is only about 5 hours, 15 seems worrying :-D

Yeah, Skies is like that.

Nice and life-eating.

Oh, if anyone wants to see me, there might be photos of my body after I die in an asian internet cafe overload next week.