regmcfly wrote:

This isn't a 'gamer'. This is 'spends 12 hours a day playing'.

But he doesn't do this all the time, right? It's just a world record attempt?

He might be one of those skinny people who eats and lives like a fat person but doesn't put on any weight. Bad skin, greasy hair but no fat, then they have a colossal heart attack because all that fat is in their arteries instead.

He says on the FAQ that he's only been playing Mario 64 for two years. Surely he can't mean that was the first time he played it?

By "playing" he probably means "wasting his life". He began wasting his life 2 years ago.

No more than 8 hours with breaks I wouldn't have thought. Breaks including 30 minute trips to the shop.

Fairly sure the first Saturday that Dark Souls dropped I probably pulled an 18 hour stint on that mother. 

DEEPLY ENGROSSING HEROIN.

When Tekken Tag 2 drops I am likely to play it continuously until I die after staying awake for five days or something.

I'd wager if I added up the total time spent by this guy plaing MK64 over the last 2 years who is now trying break a record it will be miniscule compared to the last 12 years I have spent playing Tekken for fun. 

Perhaps the guy is just doing it for no reason other than personal satisfaction.

Roujin wrote:

I'd wager if I added up the total time spent by this guy plaing MK64 over the last 2 years who is now trying break a record it will be miniscule compared to the last 12 years I have spent playing Tekken for fun. 

Perhaps the guy is just doing it for no reason other than personal satisfaction.

lol, he's playing M64 not MK64 :D

He's doing it because he wants to be a world record holder and believes he's finally got the skills to do it. He's got the time to dedicate and wants to set a time which no one else will beat. In doing it the ways he's doing it, its quite clever because psychologically whoever wants to break it will know/think how much time it took to get it before.

He already got the WR but he's not satisfied, so as he's well within the time frames he's pushing to beat/maximise his own record.

Longest stints of play i've ever had were playing ISS2000 from 5 in the afternoon till 2am quite regularly at uni. Games are quite long though. Its like playing H3 last night, I started at 8 and finished at 10.30. But at least 30 minutes of that is waiting on lobbies for matches to start.

What would get me about his run/aim is that that first 4 levels (not stars/levels) he's done hundreds if not thousands of times alone since he started it and its so flawless but so repetetive.

Yeah that is a bit extreme, I'm not sure I could maintain a competitive/useful level of play for that long.

My longer sessions now are often ended by being too drunk to do anything. Beers and games have become one in recent years.

When my other half takes the baby to see her parents and I've got a day and night free, I'd probably spend 10 hours playing games, with breaks.

Might be stiff competition...

Coming second is acceptable.

mk64 wrote:

I remember playing championship manager for about 10 hours straight (with food around me). That must've been 97/98

I'd still do that now, luckily the latest FM hasn't grabbed me for whatever reason.

Stopharage wrote:

I remember playing Mario Kart 64 at uni for 18 hours solid against a buddy of mine. Loser chose the next track and it ended up something like 175-170. 

Not as bad as another friend who played Fifa religiously and constructed handmade graphs and bar charts of his  squad's ratings and game to goal ratios. He failed his first year at uni..

i'm sure it wasn't funny but it was to me two seconds ago.

I had nightmares once about yeast growing out between the keys and enveloping my hands.