The longest game I've ever played was Ultima Underworld in the early 90's. I remember starting the game at about 8pm and I didn't stop until about 8am the following morning.

Damn, I don't even want to think about that one. I've played well over 15 hours straight on several occasions.

Yeah. I also got hung up on EQ. I finally had to force myself to quit cold turkey. I would run home from work everyday so I could jump into the game and I'd play until around midnight and then do the same thing the following day. I found myself sometimes even taking a sick day just so that I could play. It was sad. Finally I said.....ENOUGH! And stopped playing all together and cancelled my account because it was TOTALLY taking over my life. I remember I was so addicted and into my character...that I would scream and curse my ass off when I died. Once, a friend of mine talked me into going to this island with a friend of hers to fight a giant. I was a 14th level Mage I do believe. I didn't think I was ready for it but went anyway. It took us over a HALF AN HOUR (in real time not game time) to get there because we had to take all of these boats to get there including a rowboat that we rowed ourselves over to the Island. So we get there and we're about to setup a strategy when her friend who's a warrior runs down the hill to attack the giant before we were all ready. So my friend who was a Cleric goes running after him all pissed off and to make sure she was ready with the heal. I follow so that I can cast the spells from a distance. The warrior dies. The Cleric dies but he's in the red. I throw some last spells on him but he doesn't go down. I turn and haul ass and he follows me. I jump into the water thinking that perhaps the Giant wouldn't get into the water but he did. I'm about a good 200 feet out from the Island now swimming for dear life hoping to reach a safe distance and I finally realized that I wasn't going to make it. So....I swam back for shore because I realized that if I didn't make it there before I died...my body and all my gear would be lost in the Ocean forever. I didn't make it. I was about 150 feet out from the shore when he pummeled the hell outta me. I think I almost had a fucking heart attack. I can't remember cursing and ranting and banging things around so much in my entire life. That was a truly scary moment in my life when I realized i'm way too addicted to a game and I needed to get out. So I did.

P.S. For those of you who want to know...I went back to the Island to find my body with my friend and tried to remember where I had jumped into the water. It took me about a good half hour of swimming around, but I finally found it about a good 100 feet down hanging off the edge of an underwater cliff. Another foot out and my body would've been at the bottom and it would've been too deep for me to retrieve it. I wouldn't have even found it. It took me about 10 times of diving down to my body and then dragging all of the stuff off into my inv and then running back up for air. Needless to say that when that was done, I hauled ass back to the row boat and left immediately and never went back again.

I am much happier to realize I'm not the only one who does this.
Give me and my friend a cube of Mountain Dew Code Red and we're set for the weekend.
Diablo 2:LoD easily went 12-15 hours straight over a weekend at a time. Every once in a while you'd look over and see the other person asleep at the computer or the sun was coming up or some other distraction.
Before that for me it was Final Fantasy Tactics. I must've stayed up 15-20 hours playing that in the summer.
Now, the new game for me is going to be Morrowind as it looks like I can explore forever in there.
After that, hopefully WoW.

Anyone on West up for some all nighter LoD? :D

Hmmmm....

Doom death matches for 4-5 hours a shot. Counterstrike for 6-7hours on weekends
The worst was Anarchy-online. 18hours straight one night. I played the game for about 6 months. My total time played during that 6 months is 35 days. That is 35 x 24 hours = 840hrs. Averages out to about 4.5 hours a day.

Like ever quest it is very addicting without be a lot of fun.

There is a support group out there called Anarchy Widows from all of the women that have divorced over that evil game.

I got out for good and have been free from it for 6 months now.

from the time i woke up 10am to the time i went to bed 3am playing KOTR

I have easily pulled off 12 hour sessions of Wil Arms 2, Paracite Eve 1 or 2, Final Fantasy * (* = any), and shit.. some PC games have controlled my life like no other.

But I know I have never done more then say 18 of any one game solid.. My brain simply will force me to fall asleep at the keyboard. ANd yes I've done this many times.

i almost felt like passing out playing KotOR. I thought about stories of how some people died from playing video games for too long. like how their nose started to bleed then they passed out and just never woke up. I did actually start to get scared because I felt something weird in my nose but I just had to keep going! I also thought about how some people have seizures when they see flashing colors and I started to notice the pretty lightsabers and beams. I had to look away for a second there and really thought about if I should keep going. But thankfully I finished KotOR without passing out. but damn Videogames are dangerous for you!!

I stayed up about 14hrs for Diablo II LOD
and about 10hrs for DAOC

Neverwinter Nights, Baulder's Gate 2, Fallout 1/2, KOTOR were all stay up untill dawn games. Counter-Srike caused me to fall asleep at the keyboard from playing 17 hours straight one weekend. Alpha Centuari and Civ 3 are in the 24 hour club, games I have stayed awake playing for 24 hours.

I had Asheron's Call for two years and now I refuse to play MMORPGs. The social and exploration aspects eat my time like none other. I'm really hoping WOW and EQ2 suck really hard so I can avoid buying them.

Diablo II and Goldeneye hit the top of my list.

Hah! I just pulled an all nighter yesterday (today?) playing WoW.

A full 24 hours on Prince of Persia: Sands of time...I'm glad it was a short game, i couldn't do ANYTHING (school work wise) til iwas done

Yes! Same happened to me. I'd get off work about 10 - 11PM and start playing. Before I knew it, the sun was coming up.. and even then I didn't stop.

12-18 hour bursts of Diablo were common back in the day.

There was a huge snowstorm around the same time that Ocarina of Time came out. It was bad enough to the point where pretty much everything was closed for 3 days. Cars were buried completely, so the only thing I did was play. I'd say I played about 36 out of 48 hours during that.. nothing else ta do!

THPS... man, I'd play for SO many hours on end. At least 8 hours a day, haha.

Now that I'm older (23), I can't really play anything for more than 3-4 hours at a time or I start falling asleep for some reason.. even if the game is fun as hell. It's very odd, heh.

For me it was prolly GoldenEye, dont remember how many hours, but I do remember I beat it the same day/night I purchased it.

Bah, now Warcraft 3:The Frozen Throne is keeping me up... anyone looking for a crappy AT partner on Lordaeron?

Final Fantasy XI. Enough said.

All time for me was 15 hours stright of EQ:OA, hell I got to lay in my bed all day since my ps2 is in my room :D

And 2 days ago I pulled 8 hours of planetside.

oh man. i beat my record(48 hours on Super Mario 3).

56 hours playing Spiderman 2.

When I was about 13 my buddy and I played Link for nes from about noon until 5am. When I tried to go to sleep, I litterally had the images burned into my eyes. I couldn't sleep and was practically halucinating. I recommend this to anyone

Wait a minute. 56 hours straight? 48 hours straight? If so, damn. I couldn't stay up all day/night playing a game. Guess I'm not hardcore enough.

When I first discovered Team Fortress Classic (a half-life mod) I must've played for 95% of the hours I was awake for a week, stopping only to sleep for 5 or 6 hours D:

76 Hours in EverQuest (original) back in 98/99. I was still in middle school, it was during the summer, I had caffiene.. and I was NOT fucking leaving the ghoul castle until the Shin Ghoul Lord spawned with his sword so I could loot it..

I started to hallucinate that he had spawned and I'd get up to attack it and realize it wasnt actually there.

The spawn time was exactly 17 minutes, so I started getting up and walking around after a while..

Damn... my longest is probably only about 8 or 10 hours. Back in the heyday of AoE and then AoK:TC I would play back to back to back matches that lasted like 3 hours each, with only a few minutes between each.

Middle school and high school was such a fucking joke. I had no idea how easy I had it back then :|

About 24 hours. Metal Gear Solid for Playstation. The original. :thumbsup:

25 hours straight playing EQ, probably would have been longer but I was about to fall asleep sitting in my chair...

Non-EQ, I spent a rainy 4th of July weekend playing Team Fortress Classic for 12 hours straight...

I've pulled more all-nighters than I can count, many of them were playing FFXI.

The longest I think I've actually played a game in one sitting would probably be Metal Gear Solid 2, which I played for 11 hours straight one day. I stopped playing almost at the very end of the game, because the game actually told me to turn it off. The commander guy actually called me on my codec and said "You have been playing this game too long, turn it off now.", and I actually complied and turned the game off. The next time I played, I realized that he says that no matter how long you've been playing, and I was kind of disappointed. :(

I did an allnighter with WCW NWO Revenge on the 64 at a friends' 16th birthday party one time. that was good stuff.

yeah and I probably put in 8+ hours at a time on both Jedi Knight and Tony Hawk 2.

Some of you are freaks. Worst I've done was about 24hrs on FFVII and 19hrs on FFXI. Yup. I may have to break my record this coming Christmas Break so I can be up there with you heavy-hitters... >.>

I know I pulled a lot of freakshow moments in EQ1. I think the longest one in recent memory was when I used to play Desert Combat (1942 mod) all fucking day long my sophomore year. I know I played it 12 hours straight a few times. I had 900 hours on my warrior when I quit playing WoW and around 500 hours on my priest, so I had my share of streaks in WoW, but nothing like EQ. EQ is waaay more addicting than WoW. Hell, I'd play EQ when I wasn't having fun. If WoW even began to bore me the slightest, I'd always stop playing immediately. EQ got you to play even if you didn't want to. :)

-Lasereth

I can't imagine actually playing a game for as long as you guys occasionally do. My longest is MAYBE 8 hours of a combination of Warcraft 3 and Guild Wars.

Phew, I logged about 600 hours on Guild Wars this summer (PVP mostly).. About an 7-8 hour streak every night. We did a few 15+ nights, too. Just last night was another no-sleeper..

We generally do LAN parties once every few months - we find a nice three day weekend and buy plenty of alcohol, food, and snacks and start gaming. We'll go upwards of 15 or 20 hours with no sleep, just booze and games. It makes Desert Combat (among many other FPS games) a lot more interesting when you're the person flying the helicopter and yet you just blew a 0.12+ on your friend's breathalizer.

Me and my brother are the only people I know who can pilot the BF copters, especially the DC ones with no auto hover. You're a damn hotshot if you can get from point A to point B in those things. :) Brings back good memories. I was ranked 400th out of 2,500,000 players at the prime of my DC "career." :thumbsup:

-Lasereth

The only game I've pulled all-nighters on is the awesome XCOM UFO Defense.

oh man. The end of a semester at college I had a final at the beginning of the week and at the end. Everyone else left at the beginning of the week so I decided to play a game called Legend of Dragoon, a four disc PS1 RPG. I spent a good 72 to 80 hours playing that game. Straight, no sleep. I got up only to shower once and go to the bathroom. My fridge and microwave were right next to me so I didnt have to move. My roomate would stop by occasionally asking if I had slept or anything. Lets just say... the boss was no sweat for me at the end.

Other wise within the past 3 months I have sucessfully beaten: FF9, FFX, FFX-2 (3 three times, stupid 100% ending), Kingdom Hearts, an RPG called Legend of Legaia, 3/4 of FF8, 1/2 of FF7, Ace combat 5 (Ace difficulty), Sacred (Diablo style RPG, hardest difficulty), Advent Rising (Normal and Hard), Spent countless hours on Warcraft 3, Morrowind, and Sid Meyer's Pirates. I am sure I am forgetting something. Meh, I have too much time on my hands.

If I had an internet-legal copy of BF1942, I'd have to load it up and play some games with you two - I was hot shit in that copter, I'd capture flags by hovering an inch or two above the poles, I'd skim a few feet off the ground and run people over with them, I'd generally do anything and everything crazy with them, killing people left and right. I had so much fun with it. :thumbsup:

I did the same thing in EQ, and I'm not sure why. I'd be bored to tears or want to go to bed but for some reason I say "15 more minutes" about a dozen times. I guess it was just waiting for that uber drop item that never came, and I always hated to leave a good party/raid especially when some of the zones (like the Velious ones) are so hard to get to.

I never had a problem logging out of WoW either..

Likewise with EverQuest.. I think a lot of it for me was that I would spent 2 or 3 hours finding a group back then, and so I could justify not leaving. "Well, if I quit now.. I'll have to sit around for another 3 hours trying to find a group..."

Plus, I was in middle school/high school so I actually had the time / irresponsibility to be able to do it.. looks like no one has beaten my 76 hours. :) I got ghoulbane, by the way. Then half a year later, they released it as an easy quest.. I was PISSED.

I'd say back when I played WoW. The one day I was literally on from like 9/10 AM till 5AM the next day. Yeah I quit playing that game.

Sure I had minor breaks for eating, drinking , bathroom needs. But its rather pathetic still.

Back in my younger days I once was playing Baldur's Gate at my desk when I heard my father go to bed. I had literally not left my chair when he got up to go to work the next morning, eight hours later.

In my really younger days, I'd MUD all day long. I'd even stay logged on when I went to class so I didn't lose my spot on the server (100 player limit).

Both of these served as reality checks for me. Now I cannot game much more than three or four hours straight without getting blurry vision and a sore back. Man, I feel old.

Went to a LAN party in Red Deer at the local airport few years ago. There must've been about 60 or so people and half of us played about the whole weekend, which is 3 days straight of playing counter strike. When Sunday came around , I was pretty disapointed because I thought it was still Friday.

Nowaday, I play all day and I just don't seem to have the strength to keep playing through the AM. Plus, getting stoned attribute to me wanting to get off and get all the munchies in the house :D

Civilization I/II/III

Just . . . one . . . more . . . turn.

Earthsiege II. I was in to mech games back then.

I watched the sun go down. I watched the sun come up. Waay tooo loong...

Ahh the memories, I think the longest span I ever played a game for was Civ II for about 17 hours straight with only bathroom breaks. Although back then in the summers I would go for something like two weeks playing a game only taking a break for about five hours of sleep a night.

SUIKODEN!!!!! My god I love that game. It's the shi-ai-at. I've done like 20- something hours on suikoden 2 and i think like a 12 hour stretch on Suikoden 1 the day before I had to return it last time I hired it.

When I got LoZ: Ocarina of Time for Xmas I immediately began playing and played for about the next 30 hours straight. damn water temple. Other than that. I've had quite a few weekends on EQ where I logged better than 30 hours of play for the weekend. The longest straight was when I went from 63 -> 65 in one session. Got up Saturday morning 1 kill to 64 around 9 am, then played till Sunday about 5 am when I hit 65, so that's 19 hours straight?

On a side note(It's not me) I had a RL friend who played EQ and when his guild did Plane of Growth for the first time on a Friday night. They ended up raiding for over 40 hours straight before they finished(took down Tunare). He was one of 2-3 in attendance for the entire raid.

Hmm, I don't remember how long I stayed up in a row, but I do remember I got only like 4 hours of sleep for the 50 straight hours that I played Final Fantasy X when I got it for Christmas over break.

Hmmm... A couple of games come to mind:

FFVII - When the story really started to pick up in disc 2, I probably logged a 12 hour session.

Need for Speed UG, both 1 and 2 - When I first played either, solid 14 hour session.

Starcraft - Countless 4 AM nights playing team melee with buddies.

Grandia 2, Morrowind, Vice City, MGS 2, KOTOR 1 & 2, Red Faction, Diablo II: Full days.

Halo: Multiple 12+ hour multi sessions.

I know this is showing my uber geekness, I almost fear saying this. The longest I have ever stayed up playing a video game was 72 hours playing Dark Age of Camelot (MMORPG).

Starwars Battlefront 1, with my little bro. 36 hours without even a bathroom break.

Starcraft, over 23 hours. Total SC hours = over 15,000 since '98.

Err, mine was close to 30 hours of non-stop CounterStrike. Of course, including the occasional toilet breaks and dinner time and stuff.

I think for me, I stayed up about 16 hours playing Half Life 2 and the second Jedi Knight game on the computer.

I did play about 12 hours of Prince of Persia: The warrior within and then decided to delete the game off my memory card because I was getting really pissed off at one part. The next day I played the entire game over again. Beat it that day.

my tops is the 32 hours I played EQOA when it came out for the PS2, I was on sick leave at the time with ankle surgery so I laid on the couch and played that damn game like it was going out of style.

another high is the 13 hours a friend and myself spent on the xbox playing halo 2 in campaign mode.

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r u guys kidding me? In '93 I was 22. co-opped with IBM in their tech support center (and had another co-op roomate), and played Civilization 1 all night. my roomate got up to go to work at IBM - I was still up and said I was callign in sick. When he came home from work I was still playing Civilization. I'm older and more wiser now, but damn, civ still kills me.

I'm 33 and Last week i was off for 3 days and my friends were not... and that's all i did for 8 hours straight. i didnt tell em i was off - what's the point? we were partying after work - they had to work, i met up with them afterwards. Who cares that i was off all week playing games 8+ hours a day? It's my secret.

32.5 hours recently - various games, mostly Starscape and Yahoo canasta and spades (had to change my sleeping schedule)

50 hours straight with my two roommates and a friend on 5 computers running 5 account for FFXI online. We only stopped to go and get a Coke go to the bathroom or quickly grab a snack and then eat while playing.

That game was like crack.

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I have stayed "up" to probably 3:00 or 3:30 am playing a game (normally due to coming home from work at around midnight). The longest single session of gaming in which I've partaken was approximately 12 hours of Halo playing in co-op mode at my friend's house.

I played Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis for Xbox for about 8 hours straight. Very cool game, build and manage your own Jurassic Park.

i played FF7 3 days straight (fri,sat,sun)
i dozed off a couple times, but woke up and got right back to playing.
i totally forgot about the PSAT's that weekend also.
i remembered on monday i was supposed to take it then. oh well, FF7 was worth it.