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Purely an introspective victory, for the best these characters face from their fellow gamers is derision for being 'sad' enough to pump so many wasted hours into a game, seemingly at the expense of a social life.īut then, when we're all technically wasting our time with videogames in the first place, does it matter if we quibble over degrees? Is it less sad for us to pour days of our lives into Halo or Call of Duty? How about beating Super Mario World for the dozenth time, even though it always ends the same way? Then there are the months we could theoretically spend on the latest Final Fantasy, or collecting over 450 Pokémon. They dedicate their lives to these games, seemingly for no other reason than to know they are the champions. There are record breakers for all the arcade classics, be it Qbert or Paperboy. Legends like Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe, who have earned their fame for reaching the end of Donkey Kong and battling each other to the bitter end and vying for the position of the world's greatest Kong player. In order to beat it, Little Gray killed 390,895 creatures, dealt 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests, raided 405 dungeons and hugged 11 players. A few months ago, Taiwanese World of Warcraft player 'Little Gray' made headlines by 'beating' Blizzard's popular MMO, collecting 986 Achievements to officially beat WoW before the next expansion. Leyde isn't the only man to sacrifice hours of his life in order to accomplish in-game feats that would make weaker men tremble. It's an achievement, certainly, but we do have to wonder where you draw a line between impressive and worrying. His family celebrated when the game's score blanked out, although it could have simply been because it might mean he'd finally put the damn thing down.

To put it in perspective, it would take eight hours a day, five days a week in order to beat it in a year. It took Mike 2,200 hours stretched over three years to achieve this momentous milestone.

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Well, the game’s code wasn’t designed to display a negative number so it just showed a blank where the score should be!' 'When Mike collected that next gem match, the additional 2,200 points would have put his score above the maximum ‘calculable’ score, and much like some of the original arcade games, it caused his score to ‘flip around’ to a negative number. 'We had to give the game some sort of maximum displayable score, and figured that was high enough, no one would ever get that many points,' admits the game's co-creator and PopCap chief technology officer Brian Fiete.

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