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Asteroids marathon world record attempt -- Live right now...
TheShanMan:
--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on April 06, 2010, 07:25:11 am ---Wondering why he didnt just go for an even 42 mil? sit the bar higher, i guess its already high enough to where nobody will attempt it any time soon.
Watched the game for about an hour last night..... ::yawn:: Wow, edge of your seat action....
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Actually it was pretty edge of your seat there toward the end when he got down to just a couple of spare ships! There's a very good reason he didn't go for an even 42... He had been awake for somewhere around 62 hours, 57.5 of which were spent playing the game. He was hallucinating and generally losing it. His game play was dropping off quickly. In short, his body just couldn't handle it anymore.
So fun to be there in person (I was there at various points including the end). He felt bad for creating drama at the end, as if he has something to apologize for. But that just added to the excitement. He was totally losing it toward the end and he knew it, but fortunately he was able to buckle down and get it done. The room was dead silent though when he was losing all those lives and came so close to having the game end prematurely. He is one of the great stories in arcade gaming, with 30 records in the last year or so. He's also a nice guy. He's played games in my game room and even helped get my air hockey table upstairs.
We were told afterward that one of the feeds had as many as 1100 viewers at one point and that the chat got up to 300. It was pretty amazing to see word spread throughout the day yesterday on various websites.
And he actually beat it by another 500k I believe... there were several times when he forgot to count a score rollover as confirmed by some of the guys there that went and verified by viewing the recordings at 10x. However, they were keeping silent about that and I'm sure even John didn't know.
Congrats John!!!
Epyx:
I guess for this game it really is about physical endurance...going 62 hours without sleep is brutal on the body...I used to do the odd 24 hour shift at Electronic Arts and I remember that being hard on my body and that was in my 20s...I couldn't imagine doing that now...let alone 62 hours...wow.
Cakemeister:
I wonder if you could build up a huge number of extra ships and get enough time to take a 15 minute nap every four hours or so. You might be able to get a longer game that way.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on April 06, 2010, 12:22:25 pm ---I wonder if you could build up a huge number of extra ships and get enough time to take a 15 minute nap every four hours or so. You might be able to get a longer game that way.
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opt2not:
Yeah, it was pretty funny afterward when the crowd of people dispersed there. John was describing some of the things he was seeing and feeling during the last stretch, hallucinations as well as befuddlement from the lack of rest his mind and body got. The most I've stayed up for was 32 hours, I couldn't be able to rub to brain-cells together to do anything, let alone play a game of asteroids where I'd have to be quick to respond.
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on April 06, 2010, 12:22:25 pm ---I wonder if you could build up a huge number of extra ships and get enough time to take a 15 minute nap every four hours or so. You might be able to get a longer game that way.
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I thought about that too. He did take breaks, but they were for 5-8 minutes, and mostly for food and bathroom. It's gotta be hard to fall asleep in 15 mins though, especially when you're mind is stressed about something looming, like a world record accomplishment.