Can’t Stop me Now, Havin’ such a Good Time!

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1. Metroid Prime earned my longest gaming sessions.

2. I haven't played Resort again since the first day I bought it (haven't had time).

   I've had long play sessions with several games. I remember Twilight Princess and Super Smash Bros. Brawl taking up whole entire days, and most of my play sessions with Super Mario Galaxy (at least at first) were no less than four or so hours.

3. I guess the first game to do that to me was Mountain King on the Atari 2600, and then Fort Apocalypse on the Commodore 64. Then it was Castle Wolfenstein (the 2D one), Super Mario Bros., Sonic 1, Wolf3D, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake 2, Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, Zelda: Ocarina of Time (on at least three separate occasions lasting a few weeks each), Pikmin 2, Chibi-Robo, Katamari Damacy, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Elebits, and probably Super Mario Galaxy, but that was more of a completionist obsession than actually enjoying the game. Also, there were a few days when I couldn't put Geometry Wars down.

   I did play enough Wii Sports to put my arm in a sling for 4 or 5 days when it first came out, but it didn't take anywhere near the amount of time to injure myself as it did to play those games above.

4. I haven't bought Resort yet but as a kid, I would spend the entire weekend playing Super Mario 64 and later Ocarina of Time since it was at my grandparents' house. In fact, I would spend the week before planning out what I wanted to do in the game.

   More recently though, I played Peggle for 5 hours without realizing it.

5. I've definitely been in the situation you've highlighted in the article. Not for a Wii Sports game (I've seen relatives play it for hours on end, but it's not one of my favourite games, and I've only played the original twice at most), but I've definitely played games such as Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros Brawl in such great quantities, usually on the day I bought each game in particular (because I like to finish a game's single player in about two days maximum), or for Super Smash Bros Brawl, when I needed to beat multiple levels of the Subspace Emissary, or Boss Battles on Intense mode difficulty. Not a rare occurrence, I'll tell you that.

6. I remember staying up till my mom would barge in and demand we sleep for the good old poin-and-click adventure games of LucasArts.
   I also remember me, my brother and 2 friends spent a 4-day weekend playing the original Smash Bros., stopping only to sleep and eat. Good times…

7. My longest session was 13 hours non-stop on Wind Waker the day after that came out (racked up about three on launch day).

   Just couldn't stop playing it.

   Haven't got Resort yet but planning on buying it this week when I get a chance.

8. Ah yes the joy of gaming. I sure have played long sessions of games, but not as long as 11 hours. The w/long sessions for were Gran Turismo 3(my buddies and played all summer long when it came out), Takken 3, Super Street Fighter 2, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Galaxy, Tales of Symphonia…can't think anymore, but have been a lot of games! 🙂

9. Sorry for the typos, see what happens when you post comments using the DSi. 😉

10. I played the basketball for two and a half hours last night and couldn't walk the next morning from the calf strain.

11. I have no idea what my longest gaming session might have been, but probably my most impressive was the time I put in just over 6 hours on the same game (without dying) of Asteroids for the Atari 2600 when I was younger. It finally got to the point where I had to let myself die because I was physically unable to press the button anymore. I think I had a hand cramp that lasted about 3 days after that.

12. I spend a majority of time playing the Sims series.

    Mostly the PC versions but I've spent plenty of days (on and off of course) playing MySims. Fun being able to control a life. :B

13. Super Smash Bros. Melee was really addictive for me.

14. Civilization should be the only game people are responding with. 😉

15. Pretty sure I played Brawl like 13 hours like the 2nd day I had it. Would have played it that long the first day but you had to go and pick up, so you lost 10 hours right off the bat.

    I played Wii sports Resort 6+ hours the first day, but you have me crushed.

16. @ Brian

    I've probably played Metroid Prime more than any other game I've ever played possibly combined.

17. I played WSR for about an hour before me and my friend got bored and started playing Melee.

    The games that take most of my time is Brawl and Pokemon games.

18. Smash and Pokémon eat time like none other.

    However, my most extreme gaming session was when I bought Tales of Symphonia. I played it for a week straight. Woke up. Played Tales. Ate Some food and went to the bathroom a few times in the midst of that. Back to bed. Repeat.

    I still can't believe I did NOTHING but play that game that whole week.

    I don't even know if I showered! Man, that game was amazing.

19. @ -_Q
    That's awesome. I have never able to do that, but always wanted to. I am putting my foot down, I will put a week of life away for the next F-Zero console game.

20. Civilization is the most addicting game ever. I literally played it all night once without realizing it.

21. i've had so many gaming sessions it's hard to recount them all, but the two that still stand out in my mind vividly are Oot and myst. i don't think i came out of my room for days when i first bought each of them.

22. I've done that with Sports Resort for about 5 hours.

    I rememebr when Mario Kart Wii came out, I picked it up ata midnight launch and my wife played it for 8 hours straight! She couldn't stop herself from playing online against everyone!

    But my most epic gaming marathons have always been on PC games, Diablo 2 was one, but nothing could compare to 12 hour sessions of Civilization 3. The crazy part is, the time went by so fast, I never even felt tired or realized I was in the AM when I could of sworn that only 2 hours had passed.

23. Everquest…nuff said…

24. Metroid Prime. Once spent some 6 hours on it

25. Fallout 3 is up to about 125 hours now.

26. Tecmo Super Bowl – seven to eight hour playing sessions were the norm on the weekends

    Starcraft – 9 hours at a LAN party

27. Fire Emblem on the Wii.

    I would always play just one more battle until the numbers of hours I had played were greater than the number of hours I had left before I had to get up and go to work.

28. Longest play session was on Twilight Princess, with 15 hours.

    However, most time spent on a game would have to be Pokemon. I had a 90 hour save file once on Pearl, and if you look at the series as a whole, I've probably spent 400+ hours playing Pokemon.

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