[Deepblue]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]My longest run was 7 straight hours of Halo 1.
I went to the toilet after this time and was horrified when I looked in the mirror. I looked like someone had drained all the blood out of me, my skin looked grey.

Since then I've been rather more conservative in my gaming.
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First thing I did after getting the game was play about halfway through the campaign (to the end of 343 Guilty Spark) for about 8 hours till midnight. Being the first time I played through the game, I got seriously creeped out by 343 Guilty Spark (playing that level at midnight in the pitch black doesn't help) and decided enough was enough.

[Kosh]

Originally posted by Gortef
again... didn't this same thing happen a few years back in China or something...

Something like that yeah. Gaming addiction is getting to be a huge problem there

I heard a story of a kid who stayed up all night playing games at a net cafe. On the way home he fell asleep on some railroad tracks. A train came along and......well......you have a pretty good idea of what happened next.


Then there was also the guy who killed another guy for selling a magic sword or something in an MMORPG of some kind.

[Gortef]

Yeah that one was on the news aswell, I think it was WoW.

My longest gaming run was about 12h of OFP. Actually it was 12h on sat-sun night (then some sleep on sunday) and another 12h on sun-mon night. We has a small LAN-party with my neighbors

That happened when I was studying... I even went to school after that. Needles to say I was quite out of it during the class

[Descenterace]

When I got Half Life 2, I spent about 14 hours playing it before I realised I should have lunch.

It'd finished installing at about 3am. I was playing it until 5:30pm. So breakfast might've been a good idea, and lunch should've been quickly followed by dinner.

Don't think I've ever played a game for more than 23 hours straight (and that was Diablo 2 LoD).

[Genryu]

Worse I've done was when I was aroud 15. Got a bunch of friend to come to my house (nearly ten people). Linked up the PC. Mostly played Half-life and Midtown Madness. Didn't sleep for 36 hours, and only a few breaks here and then for food and 'sanitary' reasons. Slept like a log for 15 hours after, though.

[Nuclear1]

Wow. Worst for me is probably ~10 hours playing Homeworld. I played through the main campaign twice, then played God-knows-how-many skirmishes. I went upstairs and fell asleep after that (yeah, at five in the afternoon).