When I was young and gamed a lot more I certainly had games I dedicated quite a large part of my time to. Several C64 games for example. Later on, I remember Warcraft 2 as a game I stayed nights to play even though I had to do stuff during the days. HOMM 3 screwed my sleep schedule, especially after the 16-17 hour session I played (the longest gaming session I ever played).

In more recent times, not so much. City of Heroes kept me up occasionally, and Faerie Solitaire was thoughtless and addicting enough that I sometimes didn't go to sleep when I should have.

Elder scroll games, other games i stick still i finish, but once finish its kinda finish

My body can't handle it anymore, I'm too old. Back in the day, I'd play games for 10+ hour runs several times a week. I think the longest I went was close to 30 hours. I would never do that again, it really messes up your head.

My days of playing FFXI until 3 AM are long over :(

When I was a kid, I could spend endless hours with nearly anything. Now I'm more picky, so it takes more to get hooked for me, but I have fond memories of being inseparable from:

Age of Empires (and AoE2) - this series was my gateway to gaming. The atmosphere was great and I loved the soundtrack and art style of it, but while I still enjoy a round of AoE to this day, I have mostly moved over to TBS's now.

No One Lives Forever (1 & 2, f*ck Contract J.A.C.K.). I played these to death, over and over again. I loved the dialogs through the game, the fun 60's kind of atmosphere, the various characters, and I had a crush on Cate Archer for the longest time.

Morrowind - the game that seriously got me hooked on Bethesda RPG's. The game was bundled with a graphics card that my grandfather had bought, and I had never heard about it and didn't know a thing about it when I popped it into the computer. That feeling of awe and excitement when I stepped out of that office and into the Morrowind world has yet to be topped for me.


Other than that I've spent my fair share of hours on The Sims, various Total War titles, and Civ IV, but those gaming hours have been more spread out for me.

Like some others here, Rome Total War was a game I lost myself into more than once as well. Just one more turn, one more battle until suddenly you see the light of dawn peeking through the window.

I tend to binge on one game for a while, then binge on a different one, then another... I've got so many games that I've played for hours on end, almost every day, that I haven't even finished. When I first got Skyrim (the same day we got our surround sound system) I played it for almost 24 hours straight (taking bathroom/food breaks of course). That's got to be the most extreme I've done.

I used to, and very often, because I used to play each game until I finish it. And wait several days or weeks to play another.
But since a few months, I tried to play many games "at the same time" (not really at the same time ;-), but I I wasn't waiting for finish a game to begin another).
When I try to remember some parts of those latter games, it's difficult, when it's easier for games played years ago.
I intend to focus more like the old days, now, but it's difficult to ignore my backlog... ;-)

uh .......played 5 hours of little farm , that game is anything but little sweet little time killer haha

A few times...I think, but nothing really comes to mind at the moment. Nowadays it's just 2-3 hours (or a certain amount of time depending on the gerne) per day or every two days, either due to work or because I don't really have that much of an urge to play something. Sometimes I feel like I have to dedicate a few hours at a time to a game in order to actually feel like I'm making progress in something (kind of with certain games like Skyrim or Fallout: New Vegas).

The main one that occurs to me is when a few mates and I settled in for a weekend to play Micropose Grand Prix (I think it was early 90's). The settings were a full season with 100% race laps/distance. In fact the only simulation option that we turned off was vehicle damage as that could cut races short.

So we effectively had a relay between 4 of us throughout a weekend (with the odd pause) to go through a whole season. I think we won the championship at the end which consisted of a still of our driver holding a cup on a podium.

@ OP: not really, but when I was playing Skyrim and TW2 I would play for hours and hours on end, like playing all through the night- it was awesome :D

I've had an offline, real-life gaming binge twice in my life, when I was young.

The first one was with my AD&D group at secondary school, we played a marathon lasting the whole night without sleeping. I can't remember what scenario we played, I only remember lots of chips and soda, we didn't eat really healthy that night, dinner was just a pizza delivery.

The second one was when I joined the university, at the last night of the introduction, I didn't sleep at all but spend the whole night playing games at Fanaat (transl.: 'fanatic'), the gameclub at the campus. They had their own rules for Risk, plus there was a game created by the club itself, that was very popular, but which name I forgot, something like 'Boom': it was a game with stack of tiles that 'exploded' if they grew too large. All physical games, played on the floor of the library there.

It doesn't happen often, at least not in sense that I binge from start to finish with few breaks onto other games or things, but the ones that come to mine have been The Witcher 2, Dark Souls, and Spelunky.
Both The Witcher 2 and Dark Souls kept me completely hooked from the time I started to the time I finished it, and in both cases I started new games right away. Right now I'm chugging through Dark Souls on New Game+, and The Witcher 2 on Insane difficulty, and they're still just as fun now as they were when I started.

Ah yeah, the final fantasy series... I still remeber my friend playing it (FF was never really a game i would have played), me reading the strategy guide. We always plotted ahead, when we were about to encounter a boss. Those sessions sometomes lasted for days.
yep morrowind is awesome i ahve the goty edition. I had that feeling of "too much freedom" when i first played it. I was confused and didn't know what to do so i ended up slaying civilians...