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I found this news item on the emulation news site Zophar's Domain (URL) Media News: Man Dies from Playing Video Games 01:18: Yes, you read correctly. A South Korean man has actually died from too much of a good thing. The man died of stress-related (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, duh. All LEGO maniacs beware, especially if the bricks start look appetizing! :) The most I have ever played a game was Blaster Master /Master Blaster? for the NES - I think it was 7 hours, ugh! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I remember back in college we used to have 40 hour sessions of Axis and Allies the weekend before the week before finals. And just last week I went to a LAN party where we played Quake III and Team Fortress for at least 10 hours a pop. Heck, I can (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Lately Team Fortress Classic has been eating my hours again--my longest marathon since Legend of Zelda (way back when...) has been five hours. Strategy PC-game sessions have been longer--I remember over a holiday break, some friends and I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I remember when I got Pitfall; my mom thought I was going to get brain damage from playing it for 20 hours straight. *smirk* -Cheese (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) lol!! (...) My neighbor and I have gone for hours in various 2-player RPGs. :) Our current record is roughly 15 hours continuous play of Secret of Mana. Because we played for so long, the SNES eventually overheated and toasted our savegames, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Jeff, (...) YEs, indeed. I love that game, I played SOM with my fiancee and her brother for a good 4 / 5 hours before. I never heard of the save games being toasted, however. Jeff, you evil, evil person! ;) (...) Hmm... I don't know for sure if I do (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Jeff, (Ack! I'm replying to my own post!) I forgot my marathon Doom and Duke Nukem marathon deathmatches I used to be in at my old job. Those went around 8 / 9 hours a day on a few occasions. Ah, the fun old days, and one of the advantages of having (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yup, We love that game, too. :) I always played the Boy and he played the Girl (neither of us like the Sprite. :) ). We have one game that we maxed out levels, spells, and weapons. :) I love the altered spell graphics. :) (...) Well, early (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) well, I'm not talking about the most I've ever played - but I think an interesting record is 8 hours, 4 players on a gauntlet video arcade game, one game... it cost us about $50 total... of course, that was back in the 80s... :) (...) Jenn and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But why would you want LEGO to stand on your head? It's hard to build with them standing way up there. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) yah, we did that too... Me and a friend skipped one class in the morning, to play some DN... After 9 hours, we got up and tried to walk. We failed the first few times... and were wobbly after that :) Dan (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Tradewars is an absolutely unforgiving game. I love it! :-, Playing that, and Civ II, have taken over many a day. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There we go! I was thinking "five hours?! you call that LONG? that's my average length of any serious gaming" Last night I actually got mildly obsessive and played Pokemon Blue for almost eight hours. (man I love that Pokemon Stadium add-on! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) heheh... "I just need more turns!" - we played a crazy game, where we got 3000 turns/a day, so that's about 75 turns/45 minutes... so you just stay up :) (...) CIV, Starcraft, Starcon - all have kept me up till 8 am and more, when I kept (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Civ II is my favorite of all times! I tried CTP but it just wasn't the same... I actually don't have civ II anymore, sadly enough it got erased and, um, I didn't really have the CD, because, how to say, the game was my friend's <sheepish look> (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I got GT2 last month, and I have to say that Namco's NeGcon controller makes those 24-hour sessions just fly past. *smirk* It's an analog racing controller that you twist, vaguely like a steering wheel. The other great thing about NeGcon; analog gas (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Dude, it's YOGA, man. LEGOYOGA. -Cheese (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Jeff, Speaking of games, do you know when Front Mission 3 is coming out? I am looking forward to little sleep some more. Fortunately, I think I might be able to ditch my second job shortly, if my plans go well!!! :) Scott "Yes, God, my fiancee, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Last I heard, the 22nd. :) I *really* need to stop playing with my Lego and finish Grandia(1)(2). ;) Jeff 1 - The Second best game of 1999, right behind FF8. :) 2 - Why, oh why, did Gamearts have to make Grandia 2 for the stupid Dreamcast?? (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Jeff, (...) Yes! I can't wait! (...) My roommate is playing it right now. The only thing I don't like hearing is the "Alright, we won!" x 10,000,000,000, or "Not, bad, ey?" sounding like a UP inhabitant, or something! (...) That's right, I saw it in (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) lol! (...) Personally, I don't mind the voices of Justin, Sue, Feena, or Liete. The other ones I can live without (especially Rapp). ;) Of course, I'm usually listening to other music instead, so I don't really hear them. ;) (...) Well, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ARGH!!!! I keep hearing how wonderful that controller is for GT/GT2 on granturismo.com and I have NEVER been able to find on in person. It's sooo frustrating. Nearly a year of searching in two different states and I find nada. (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ...Starcon...as in Star Control...as in the absolutely wonderful Star Control 2? THAT Starcon? (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ooohh... I love that game... Especially after I modified the Terran ship to rapid-fire nukes. ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 05:38:55 GMT erythrite@hotmail.com (Kya Morden) wrote concerning 'Re: I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry....': (...) yup... as in Star Control 3 :) SC1 Kept me up all night dogfighting with my brother (heh, when we were (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ack--! After I purchased Grandia II, I didn't play with lego for two weeks :) (...) The voice acting in Grandia II is amazing. (...) Wha--?? STUPID? I suppose you could call the DC stupid IF you thought games were dumb...that's an insult, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Josh & All (No, I am not going to go into a long rattle about how much better this is to that]; I don't know what game I was referring too anymore, my brain is a little rusty now... Anyway.... (...) to (...) No mine, but it is a good system, filled (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, it's true. (...) I suppose I see your point...but a "dumb" move? On the "stupid" dreamcast? (...) Indeed. I wasn't suggesting a debate or attempting to start one, rather I anticipated that it might happen. I'm for the latter, too. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Josh, Well, in summary of this post, since Sega has pulled the plug on the Dreamcast now, and I have secured a PS2 finally, I finally found this to wrap this up. (...) dreamcast? This comment, made by Jeff, I believe, was a ill-conceived move by the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I don't think it's so easy as that. The console market's odd in this fashion. The Atari 2600, for example, was technologically inferior to both Intellivision and Colecovision, but they were on the right part of the product cycle and did the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) sight, (...) PS2. (...) It is that easy, Josh. They are not making Dremcasts anymore, they are porting over games to the PS2 now, and most / all of the games being developed for the Dreamcast has either been cancelled, or they are going to the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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