How many hours straight...

[Devastatin Dave]

When I returned from Korea, my wife went on a 1 week trip a week after I had returned. I bought 2 cases of Mountain Dew, mixed it with some vodka and played for about 36 hours straight before passing out and breaking my keyboard with my head. So, I often wonder, how many of you have stopped your life for this game in an extended amount of time?
I was playing the Italians that game....

[Dhepee]

Dave, you must have a hard head

I played for 18 hours, as the English. I had to stop when I was invading Switzerland, fell asleep, and lost the battle when the time ran out. The AI never counterattacked, once again proving that it is worthless.

[Sjakihata]

2 hours.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

5 hours straight when MI first came out

[Devastatin Dave]

Man, I think I'll fire up some old STW next time the wifey goes out of town. I loves that game...

[shand994]

The day i bought MTW, I played it from about 7pm that night, until about 4 or 5 in the mornign, went to bed, woke up at about 7, booted it up straight away, and played non stop til about 6 that night when my gf encouraged me to stop playing

[Gregoshi]

Only about 7 hours straight once or twice. Alas, I have a life.

[Shono]

Quote[/b] (Gregoshi @ Sep. 24 2003,21:40)]Only about 7 hours straight once or twice. Alas, I have a life.

Exchange life for Wife

[BlackFireStorm]

Quote[/b] (shand994 @ Sep. 24 2003,18:03)]...booted it up straight away, and played non stop til about 6 that night when my gf encouraged me to stop playing

I have to ask, how did she encourage you?

[HopAlongBunny]

16 hours straight. More than once

That was when it first came out. Play less, much less now.

[katar]

at the start, about 20 hours non-stop.

i found out later that it`s easier to win without sleep deprivation

[Nestor]

I can easily remember some 12-14 hours sessions. But that's when I remember what I did. I must have played a bit longer sometimes as I have a very faint memory of some weekends and I'm sure I was playing non stop
By the way, do you think that we could the same thing if we got paid for it or would this kill the fun?

[eddeduck]

Bout 14 hrs on VI. I can remember whaching two baseball games On C5 whilst playing.

[Gregoshi]

Welcome to the Org edde. Thanks for stopping by and engaging in social discourse with your (now) fellow patrons.

Um, not to be rude, but if you are English (makes big assumption), shouldn't you be watching cricket instead of baseball?

[Shono]

Quote[/b] (Nestor @ Sep. 25 2003,10:28)]I can easily remember some 12-14 hours sessions. But that's when I remember what I did. I must have played a bit longer sometimes as I have a very faint memory of some weekends and I'm sure I was playing non stop
By the way, do you think that we could the same thing if we got paid for it or would this kill the fun?

Along time ago in a galaxy far far away a humble IT project manager spent his weekends playing games for hours and hours, often thinking wouldn't it be great to get paid for this.

So one day he left his IT job and entered the pandoras box of the games industry.

Although he would never go back, loved what he did and never regretted the move that he made. He sometimes wonders where all his gameplaying time has gone.....

[MonkeyMan]

I don't think I've ever managed an epic like Dave but I'd say a good 12 hours, sleep and 12 hours. This of course pales into insignificance when compared to my Championship Manager Exploits. A good 28 hours I once managed on that one, got up at 8 and played through to midday the next day before deciding I needed to sleep. My dreams were then disturbed by horrible visions of the CM interface.

BTW rather than Mountain Dew & vodka my drink of choice on this particular marathon was Pepsi Max, the high caffine drink of the gods, can keep a man going without sleep for up to 2 days at a time.

to be a student again

[Devastatin Dave]

Done some more digging and thought this was a good thread (started by me of course, my best fan) and wanted to know what any of the RTW fans had to say. So, how long was your longest session of STW/MTW/RTW?

PS, I'm such a self absorbed turd...

[Dutch_guy]

Well however old this thread may be, it's still a good one

As for me, I really don't know, I've spent sunny days indoors because of Rome, and Medieval, but I guess I just lost track of time. I never actually broke my keyboard with my head so to say.

Also, it's the first time I've seen MonkeyMan. I always thought I knew everyone after spending 2 years of my life here !

[Dominii]

I think I managed 18 hours on RTW, alas, my body isnt what it used to be and succumbed to sleep at 8am the next day. From what I remember of MTW, t'was probably the same.

[roman pleb]

I think I went abuout 10 hours a couple of times when I first got Rome.

[John86]

2 hours, then I get bored and tired.

[Martok]

I don't think I've ever done an all-nighter. Probably the longest I've gone was 16-18 hours. Now that I'm older and grayer, I doubt I've gone longer than 10-12 hours.

[AwesomeArcher]

I think the longest time i played rome was about 4 hours, but i played Madden 06 with a few friends all night. I also played Star Wars Battlefront II last New Year for about 11 hours straight with some of my friends.

[IrishArmenian]

I think about 2 hours. I canot make much time for computer games.

[Zalmoxis]

I've played about 5 hours more than twice.

[macsen rufus]

I've gone over the 24 hour mark on more than one occasion.... whoosh, there goes another weekend

[Craterus]

Max is probably about 14 hours.

[Severous]

6am to 4am - 22hours.

[Samurai Waki]

Longest I've played MTW/RTW maybe 5 hours solid. Longest I've played any game...Original Day of Defeat about 44 hours before crashing to sleep for 14 hours, waking up and playing another 12 hours.

[patlv23]

Some of you guys better be careful. There've been a couple of cases in Korea where a marathon gamer just dropped dead