Game-a-thon?

[Arce]

How many of you guys would be up for a game-a-thon?

For those of you less-knowledgeable folks, that's referring to the gathering of a group of people starting and beating the same game in one sitting, usually taking between 6-12 hours (depending on game, obviously).

If you're interested, we could easily get some kind of chat client going, such as mIRC, meet at a scheduled time, and pay our respects to one of many classic titles.

Great athoning games (from personal experience):
Zelda, (nes)
Super Mario 64 (n64)
Resident Evil (1,2,3)
Megaman (1-9, NES)
Donkey Kong Country (1,3)
Super Mario World (snes)
Zelda a link to the Past (gbc)
Megaman Legends

Obviously there's a shitload more, but we'd likely want a game that's easily beatable in 1 sitting (meaning, requires under 10 hours of play). Post any suggestions.

Again, anybody interested?

[dandymcgee]

Well I'd definitely enjoy something like that, but considering I don't any any of those games the only way I could participate would be some sort of emulator. If anything I could hover in the chat channel and spectate.

[Slacker]

Yeah, that sounds like fun, I'm down. Though I had to pick the HammSammich cause it sounds tasty!

[dandymcgee]

Yea dude. Why on Earth are "Yes" and "HammSammich" two separate options?!

[Arce]

There's nothing wrong with emulators, and nothing to imply we're limited to the above games.

[dandymcgee]

There's nothing wrong with emulators, and nothing to imply we're limited to the above games.

Agreed. I'll stay updated.

[cronjob00]

yeah I would be down as long as I don't have work or school.

[Trask]

I prefer a weekend date myself, but hell yeah.

Just putting this out here... Ocarina of Time... cause I keep getting to the ice cavern and I get distracted and never beat the damn game, no matter what I try.

[MarauderIIC]

Obviously you haven't tried continuing your game from the ice cavern ? :)

[Trask]

Obviously you haven't tried continuing your game from the ice cavern ?

Actually:

First, I was borrowing the game from a friend who wanted it back when I got there.

Then I bought the game, go there, stopped playing and then lost the game.

THEN I played it via emulator during my senior year in high school and I lost the game file when I went to college.

Then, I got it on the gamecube in that 4 zelda game disc and my memory card died.

And finally, the last time I went through it, I got to the Ice Cavern via emulator and deleted the damn files after I ran out of space on my laptop when I was in Texas, far away from home.

D:

[dandymcgee]

You need a flash drive DEDICATED to saving your Ocarina of Time game file... or three.

[Arce]

Hey, the poll results are showing 3 "yes"'s, none of which are me.

That's satisfactory...Granted that those people are actually hardcore enough to

A) Beat given game
B) Atleast stay through the 8 or so hours.

Fat change, but hey, it's worth a try. XDD

This weekend I won't be available. I'll post in ~2 weeks when timing's better for me. XD

In the meantime, feel free to start recommending games/genres.

[asams]

sonic 2
3d blast
final fantasy VII (7)

[dandymcgee]

^ I like him.