Gaming warps the fabric of time and space

antexit should tell the story of his erstwhile roommate, who would fall asleep in front of the ps and wake up 6 hours later to resume playing.

I had two like that. One who would fall asleep sitting up with the controller in his lap and find it again upon opening his eyes and immediately start playing again, like a baby starts sucking on its pacifier after waking from a nap.

And the other would do things like I'd come home from school and he'd be playing Ocarina of Time, and I'd do whatever and go to sleep and wake up and he'd still be playing, and I'd go to school AND COME BACK AGAIN and he'd still be playing.

He also called Slutsky up once, stuck on a game, and with no preamble at all demanded "MARK HAVE YOU HEARD ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET ABOUT BRAVE FENCER MUSASHI?"

Three of us waking up the next morning with controllers in hands and Quake II on the telly. None of us remembered falling asleep.

xp Yeah, we kept playing.

ahahahhaa ya that was amazing. xp

I should add that that was 1998 and I doubt the guy had ever used the internet for any reason before.

ya he called me because he had some idea that i was on the internet and i guess he was just completely desperate.

wasn't it that he couldn't beat some really obvious boss or something?

"I think the internet told me you had to hit him in the flashing part"

"some guys on the internet wouldn't shut up about how to beat this boss in this game called 'brave fencer musashi' or something"

I want to sell my wii

I've been holding on to it for awhile, but fuckit. If someone can take this and make a million dollars, I'll be happy as long as I have this game to play:

Take a sandbox game like GTA and instead of opening up another fucking island or something, hit it where all of a sudden, you're in Vice City 1973. That wino hobo that kept moping around by the biker bar? He's a VERY IMPORTANT MAN in 1973. All the cars change. Add in all the cosmetic changes that currently separates the original games from their "Cities" counterparts, except you'd be able to go back and forth between them in the same game. The game would have two soundtracks, one for each era. IT WOULD BE AWESOME. MUST BRING YOUR OWN WEAPONS SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED.

GRAND THEFT TIMELORD

I lost an entire summer to the first nes ultima.
More recently, whole weeks to dozens of games, probably the worst was Diablo II.
I can't seem to do this anymore...? It's like how a big sack of candy no longer gets eaten in ten minutes flat. I'm getting older I guess.

what is your "new console", slocki?

games that obsessed over the most over a period of time, and thought about while i wasn't playing:

dragon warrior
final fantasy
ffvii
metal gear solid
chrono trigger (so great, 'cause i was unemployed)
res evil 4
shadow of the colossus
super metroid

i'm sure there's a ton more from my childhood but that's what comes to mind.

ps3!

i definitely had games that i played for weeks/months/whatever but what i'm interested in here is the way minutes/hours go by soooo quickly

the problem you're having is giving a shit about time when you're supposed to be playing some more video games

OTM

I had two like that. One who would fall asleep sitting up with the controller in his lap and find it again upon opening his eyes and immediately start playing again, like a baby starts sucking on its pacifier after waking from a nap.

This is my roommate and the game (if this occurred in the last 3 months) was either DQ8 or the newest Fire Emblem game.

Other than gaming I get the worst time-warpage when I'm mixing music. I'm like "the song's only 3 minutes long, how long could I have been working on it...4 hours you say?".

Oh! The same roommate who called Slocki about Brave Fencer Musashi I would also routinely wake up to find playing Diablo II in our office--on a big desktop computer--with a heavy quilt draped over himself and the monitor.

The most classic example that everyone seems to have is in Civ II when you realize the chirping birds are not the sound effects from the game but they're coming from outside

the same roommate that called Slocki about Brave Fencer Musashi would also call up Slackers CDs & Games in Columbia, MO, every 2 or 3 weeks and ask if we had Brave Funcer Musashi in the most hilarious voice ever, always just as surprised that the price was $40 or whatever. This kid gets around.

Please tell me that Funcer isn't a typo!

Yeah though it's the fucking worst when you start playing a game at 10pm and say you gotta go to bed at 12:30, then you see the clock is at 11:45 and you're like "ok cool like 30 more minutes" then the next time you look it's am. WTF? Fucking video games.

when i used to play WoW, there was a guy who would apss out at his computer all the time... when we needed his help we'd just yell his name really lou into our microphones and he woke up EVERY TIME, and didn't even get angry (he did not even go to bed most of the time... always slept @ computer)

"DAZE! DAAAAZE!"
"huh what guys"
"do you have some gold? i need to buy a mount"
"oh, yeah, okay"
"were you asleep?"
"i forget"

ha...might be my dad

http://www.wowdetox.com/

ffvii and CM99 were my worst cases for this (first year of college, figures).

but i have had serious thoughts about quitting jobs, signing on and dropping girlfriends in order to play Pro Evolution master leagues.

Anyone else taking April 29th off work?

One time in college I was watching my friend play Civ I in my dorm room. It was mid-afternoon, but I guess watching him play Civ was too boring, so I fell asleep. During that time, my roommate came back to my room with his girlfriend; they hopped into bed and had sex. Neither sleeping me, nor Civ-playing friend, noticed (my roommate later told us what happened).

There was some strategy game for the Sega CD that was like Military Madness, but with warlocks and vampires and shit, that I played for about 20 hours straight once in the summer of '94. Good times, good times.

I basically quit college to play "Castle Wolfenstein".

It was a big moment when I finally killed Hitler. I looked around me and realized that my roommates were at class and couldn't enjoy the moment with me. Also, it was November.