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I know we have all had those marathons when you stay up all night or play throughout most of the day and into the evening.  That's not what I'm talking about.

I was playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 last night and as much as I like it and want to finish it, I find that I can't bring myself to play it for more than a few hours at a time.  It might depend on the type of experience because I can play Skyrim all day long.

I was wondering if anyone else has any other type of game that they genuinely enjoy but only in smaller doses.

Bioshock was the first game ever to give me motion sickness. I had to pace myself a lot with that game.

Just about any strategy game I play I usually break between missions.

I'll spend tons of hours plopped in front of pretty much anything. I've had 5+ hour sessions of Strategy, RPG, Puzzle, Sports, Platformers, Fighters and Shmups all in the last couple months.

Yeah, but you're a Terminator.  A mimetic poly-alloy.

Its amazing how many games you can beat when you dont have to sleep :P

I dont think I have the stamina to marathon zapper or power pad games though........ yet!

When I get a chance to play a game I'll play till:  I have to go to the bathroom, or I start to get drowsy.  Usually a couple of hours.

I play forever and ever until my pants are soiled and I have eaten my desk.

Depending on the game, I can usually power through until I get really far in the game, or beat it outright.  Certain games, however, I can't play for more than an hour or so.  Dead Nation is a good example.  I really like the game, but I can't play it for longer than one or two missions at a time.

i can usually handle a decent length marathon of gaming, but not always on only one game. i can normally do 4-6 hours in a sitting, sometimes more, but on average i would say 2 or 3 is closer to normal, when i have the time for it.

I don't play games very often. I don't even consider myself a gamer anymore. When I do get around to gaming I may play for about two hours at most. Usually I booze it up when I game so that usually causes me to pass out early. For some reason the more booze I have the lower my score gets. Sometimes two T.V.'s can appear right next to each other.

I thought this was law. But there are exceptions. I very vaguely remember being completely trashed and completely dominating a match of Halo 3 with like 35 kills.

Most of the time its really sloppy and running around and getting like 3. Or playing a game that would be easier sober and doing terribly.

Its pretty much a Friday night tradition for me. Games and booze. I never play any online multi-player games if I booze. Hell I rarely play them sober. Usually I play some Genesis games or something retro. I can still beat Sonic 2 in a half hour while boozing. So Friday night is really the only time I get into a gaming session.

When I was younger I would stay game from 9pm to about 8 or 9am throughout the weekend with only minimal breaks for food and... waste removal.  I would switch between whatever what hot on PS2, Counterstrike and Ultima Online. 

These days with the second child I will fall asleep if prone for more than an hour after 9pm.  In fact last nights gaming session with Swords and Serpents ended with me passed out after only thirty minutes.

The longest session that I can recall was with Goldeneye 007 on the N64 back in the late '90s. Had a few friends over for a sleepover on a Friday night after school. Not sure exactly how long we played but it was something like 22 hours straight. Only stopped for a quick bite and bathroom breaks. After that my parents yelled at me to stop playing that damn 'Nintardo' as they called it. After bloodshot eyes we finally all just passed out. Damn I miss hanging out with friends and playing split screen multi-player. Damn kids nowadays don't hang and game. 

The longest I can sit and play is completely a function of me thinking I should be doing something productive. I haven't played games too much recently but when I do I can only go for an hour or so before I need to get up and work on something. If I was taking time off or didn't have a regular job and really got into a game I suppose I could go for 6-8 hours besides snacks and gentlemen's room breaks.

What's with this "sitting" nonsense?

Real gamers play standing up... ya buncha weak-legged sissy-marys.

On a more serious note: it usually depends on what size Big Gulp I have on hand while I'm playing. Could be as long as two hours, or as little as fifteen minutes.

If it's a fave FPS, I can usually play for about 90 minutes before nausea sets in.

Back in my teens, I could go for about four hours straight.

Not more than 2-3 hours realistically, unless I'm very much into a game then it can be a bit more.

But how can you just stand?  If I stood while playing I would feel obligated to shout compulsively (WOOO! WOOOO! WHOOOO!), dance, and give the goat (which is how I act while playing my MAME arcade cabinet)

My seven-year-old hops around the room like a jackrabbit while playing on the 360.  Not sure how he can, but he whoops my butt in Plants Versus Zombies whilst doing this.

I've been known to sit for extended hours along 7-8 hours when I was younger, but now that I am older and hairier the hair on the back of my legs and ass hurt after sitting for a while. I have to move and do something else in an hour usually.

Not more than 1-2 hours (unless something really good get me stuck on the couch), but back in 1998 i spent up to 8 hours without getting a break with Ocarina of Time completing the Fire Temple and the Water Temple in a sequence.  I was really nauseous after it, i almost puked on the controller. Never did it again.

Sometimes I get up at 5AM and play straight until around 10AM.  My longest was probably a straight through speed-run of RE4 clocked in around 6-7 hours though.

I was way better at WoW when I was wasted. I posted my best dps when I was blacked out, not even joking.

These large size soda drinks were banned here in NYC, so I switched to beer.
Gaming sessions got shorter...obviously.

You should have seen me when I used to play Guitar Hero/Rock Band.  I couldn't just stand, I had to jump around and move. 

Normally I go for 2-3 hours in one sitting and this happens maybe once or twice a week. 

I really only marathon game when my brother comes over to visit.  I have my flat screen/new consoles and CRT/old consoles set up in the same room so he played Skyrim on 360 while I played Chrono Trigger on SNES start to finish, so about 18-20 hours.

That is a pretty wicked gaming session if I do say so!