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A Swedish gamer is attempting to play the classic Atari game "Missile Command" for 100 hours straight.
In March, 27-year-old economics student Victor Sanberg broke the high-score record, which was set in in 1982, over 56 hours of game play.
Now he has shattered that record and aims to play the game for 100 hours on a single credit. Owen Good of Kotaku notes that would be a record across all arcade games.
Sandberg builds up extra lives so that he can step away from the machine for up to six minutes at a time, but playing over days obviously takes its toll.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/missile-command-for-100-hours-2013-12

Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)...playing Missile Command for a year, tops.
Seven months ago, he posted his first game where he made it through the first 20 levels without losing a city. That's good, but it's nothing whatsoever compared to his later postings of half a million points and up, all culminating in this.
Wow!