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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sun Dec 29, 2013, 06:48 PM Dec 2013

Live: A Swedish gamer is attempting to play the classic Atari game "Missile Command" for 100 hours

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

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Live: A Swedish gamer is attempting to play the classic Atari game "Missile Command" for 100 hours (Original Post) jakeXT Dec 2013 OP
What the hell is he saying after every level? Systematic Chaos Dec 2013 #1
I don't know, maybe some stats /nt jakeXT Dec 2013 #2
If you go to this guy's channel profile on Twitch, you will see he's only been... Systematic Chaos Dec 2013 #3

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
3. If you go to this guy's channel profile on Twitch, you will see he's only been...
Sun Dec 29, 2013, 07:57 PM
Dec 2013

...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!

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