MEEP!!

[baratron]

Apparently I have spent 470 hours of my life playing Pokemon. Or in other words, 19.5 days. As I only got my GBA for Christmas last year, that's a bit... worrisome.

ARGH I SPENT 19 DAYS OF 2004 PLAYING ONE GAME ARGH!


Most of that Pokemon-playing was on the train or bus. Honest. I don't play it at all at home, really.

And it's not just one game. That adds up from:
Pokemon Sapphire - 115 hours
Pokemon Ruby - 45 hours (Game 1) + 40 hours (Game 2) + 10 minutes (Game 3)
Pokemon Colosseum - 70 hours (Story Mode), 30? hours (Battle Mode)
Leaf Green - 80 hours
Fire Red - 50 hours
Pokemon Channel - dunno as it doesn't keep count, but probably about 40 hours. I played it for 12 hours straight, one night.

Waaah!

I don't even want to start adding up the time I've spent on Zelda or Animal Crossing or Ratchet & Clank or Pikmin... By the age of 30 I'm probably going to find that I've spent an entire year of my life playing video games.

ARGH!!

Comments

[redbird]

I wouldn't be surprised if I'd spent that much time playing nethack in a single year. More likely 2003 than 2004, given that I spent more than half of last year in a job where I had no computer access.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Sure, I probably spent something like 3 months of 2001 (? - not sure what year it was now) playing The Sims, because I was too depressed to function and all I did was sleep, read newsgroups, do irc and play The Sims. Most days I didn't even eat unless I was given food. But I'm not sure that really counts, because I had no brain and wasn't capable of doing anything else. My amazement this time round is that I've been very busy most of the past year and actually been holding down a "real" job, and yet I've still found 400-odd hours to spend on one game.

I'm pretty sure the portability of it helps - I do a lot of GBA playing in 15 minute bursts on trains and buses, or in half hours before bed. If I play my GBA in bed before sleep, it doesn't stop me sleeping the way other gameplaying devices would, because it emits far less light than most, and because I'm already in bed. I can sit on an uncomfortable sofa for hours so absorbed in a game I don't notice that I need to eat, drink, pee and stretch - yet if you put me in a comfortable bed to play a game, I'll notice when I'm getting tired and should stop. Yes, I know this is the opposite of what common sense should dictate :)

Am about to send you email regarding me visiting New York - if you don't get it in the next 12 hours, check your spam filter. It'll be coming from my "real" email address.