What's the longest continous period of time you've spent gaming continuously?

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BurnItDwn

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Oct 10, 1999
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I've never timed it ... but I do recall 3 day weekend long lan parties with no sleep. Though we would stop for 30 mins at a time twice a day to eat, and we all took bathroom breaks when required. I'd say over 40 hours ... though if you mean without even eating or pissing, then probably about 12 hours.
 

TimMyMac

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Dec 10, 2004
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I've pulled some 12 or 15 hour runs at lan parties back in the day. before everybody got Wives and kids. :)

only break for restrooms and to grab another Dr. Pepper. :)
 

PsharkJF

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Jul 12, 2004
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Re: the topic. Welcome to the department of redundancy department.

On topic: 13 hours playing Final Fantasy 1.
 

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
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I've spent more than 10 hours straight on a civ3 game before, if you sum nonconsecutive sessions, I've had Civ3 games that ran >52 hours.
 

Martin

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Jan 15, 2000
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11:45

I hadn't played anything in about a year and a half, when I finished my exams last year. I installed civ3 and did not remove myself from the computer until I noticed the sun was up.
 

Bolvangar

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May 20, 2001
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literally days of playing 10six, (now known as project visitor) with my cousin, only stopping for food and bathroom!
 

TechnoKid

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Feb 12, 2001
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me and my buds had a 24hr lan a couple years back. it got tiring quick, but it was 24hrs.
 

Amaroque

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Jan 2, 2005
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When I was younger, I would literally play Decent 2 all weekend, except for sleeping. Easily 10 hour stretches at a time.

Same thing with the original Unreal. Only with that game, I'd go for 16, to maybe 20 hours at a time.
 

Malak

Lifer
Dec 4, 2004
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Did some Tony Hawk for 8 hours straight. Played Kohan for like 10-12.
 

Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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I used to pretty much live with two friends who had a lan in one of the spare bedrooms in high school. We played a lot of Diablo, Shadow Warrior, Duke3D, etc.

Maybe 12 hours with breaks?
 

Skyclad1uhm1

Lifer
Aug 10, 2001
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Not sure for my personal record. Probably around 30-40 hours. A friend of mine once played a MUD 72 hours straight.
 

Sahakiel

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Oct 19, 2001
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I once did a stint of about 36 hours on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. No eating, drinking, bathroom break, nothing. I racked up over 7000 kills on the same server. I hit my personal high of 84 kills in one 15 minute round. For some reason, the complaints of cheating were more numerous than usual.
Nowadays, I take breaks and stop myself after 12 hrs. Oh, and I quit MOH:AA. Too many whiners.
Now I play WoW. Too many griefers.
Go figure.
 

EmoHawk

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Oct 24, 2004
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From around 16:00 to 05:30 on the day the xbox was released, March 10th I believe ;) , they were the good ol' days!!
 

cosine17

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Dec 15, 2004
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some people are crazy. ive been hardcore addicted to games and even I have only done a max of 5 hrs.
 

Stumps

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Jun 18, 2001
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9hrs was the longest, I played doom for the SUPER NINTENDO from start to finish, that was back in 1995, i haven't been able to repeat that since.
 

StrangerGuy

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May 9, 2004
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I have gamed a continuous 16 hours before...Save for some toliet and drink breaks.
 

Haps

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Nov 22, 2001
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I'm usually good for a 15hr stint every weekend in EQ2. I have also had 12hr sessions maybe 10 times in the last month.
 

ggnl

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Jul 2, 2004
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I used to do 16-18 hours fairly regularly when I was younger. I still do 12 hour sessions occasionally (only with my SO's permission though).