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 On 03/06/2015 at 12:20 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Talking about Dragon Magazine 83, March 1984, a month and year when lots of interesting music came out. The one that made the biggest impact on me was the soundtrack to the film Against All Odds, a movie out that same month. It featured the titular song by Phil Collins and two other exclusive songs by former and current Genesis members: Walk Through the Fire by Peter Gabriel and Mike Rutherford’s Making a Big Mistake. Against All Odds was a decent Phil Collins track, but the other two made it onto my cassette mixes.
The cover is by Denis Beauvais and one of my favorites. In addition to hundreds of book covers, game box art and comic covers, he did much of the concept art and cover art for the 1999 action-RPG PC game, The Revenant.
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A letter by Wendy Wallace mentions a record for playing D&D 100 hours. She says it was mentioned in a previous issue that the gamers took a five minute break every hour and so, she says, the record was really 92 hours. That got me wondering whether there really was a record out there. Instead of going to Guiness itself, I looked at what forum posters said about the subject. I found a forum post by a James Wallace (Wendy’s brother?) on RPG.net that claims this:
Yeah, Dragonmeet (London, 1986, raising money for Band Aid) established the world record for non-stop AD&D at 84 hours, and we got into the appendix of the book for that year--we were too close to the print deadline to get a main entry. Subsequently an American team set a record of almost double that. As I recall we protested that such a deed wasn't physically possible, and Guinness put its transatlantic heads together, realised that the US team had been playing under different rules (they had been allowed to swap out players mid-game, we weren't) and so the easiest thing for everyone concerned and Guinness in particular was to simply retire the category. Which is what they did.
There was also a reddit post from last year of a group attempting a record of 72 hours, but failed. I don't think Guiness has a record listed for this kind of thing yet, but maybe these guys were hopeful.
I play video games for 10 or 11 hours straight on the weekends regularly, but I don’t think I’d play anything for more than 24 hours. That seems to be a healthy limit for any marathon.
More on this issue of Dragon next week and remember pixlbits, always the hard way, always the hard way.
Hey, my older brother was born Jan. 1984 and I was born in March (1990). Best of both worlds with that date.
I try to limit my time with games below a few hours. 5 might be a max. I did just re-beat Tormentum in about three hours. Gonna get all the achievements now.
I play games like some people go to opium dens.
While I have games for 14 hours straight before, that is as far as I'm willing to go. And with a live game like that, people start getting weird after a certain point due to sleep deprivation. Not to mention stinky.
Sleep deprivation is scary to me right now. I want to be spry and alert when doing anything these days.
Always thought that Gabriel was Genesis and as a singer Phil Collins makes a great drummer. :D
I sometimes game for over 3 hours at a time but Persona Q has had me doing 4 hours or more. It really gets to my eyes at that point even with the bigger screen.
The Gabriel Genesis years were my favorite, but I put up with the Collins Genesis during the 80s, looking for tracks I liked. You couldn't avoid either Collins or Genesis in the 80s.
I was having an eye strain problem. I think I solved it with more protein in my diet and an improved gaming chair. I am starting to have some trouble with text on the 3DS. That's just unavoidable aging I'm afraid.
Man, 72 hours of D&D is insane! As far as gaming goes, I used to put many hours, I think around 10 or so, but nowadays the most I can get is 5 hours.
On my own I can only do a couple hours at a time, but with a friend, I can go as long my friend will, which is all day.
I draw the line where if I was playing a game at night and I start to see the sunrise, I've been playing for too long. This has only happened a couple of times, but that "Oh I need some sleep" momemt kicks in.
Lucky for me, my gaming friend always has to quit at 11pm, so I haven't had that problem of playing too late at all. Sometimes during the week though, I'm up late trying to finish running Miis through the gauntlet of Mii Plaza games. Usually I can finish that in about an hour or less though.
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