Longest You've Ever Left a Game Paused

[Ascending Wordsmith]

In the days before memory cards, I always had to do something which usually interrupted my gaming time. Run errands, do homework, visit relatives, and all sorts of other tasks cut my gaming time short. This was very annoying when in the middle of a game that had many levels.

Super Mario Bros. 3 is an example. I knew about the warp whistles and Warp Island, but I wanted to beat the game straight out by playing every stage and every Hammer Brother on every world. No P-Wings, music boxes, or Jugem's Clouds would be used either. One Saturday morning, I was called to go to my grandmother's house. This really pissed me off because I had conquered every stage all the way up to the tenth stage on Iced Land. I wasn't about to turn off my game, so I paused it. As misfortune would have it, I didn't get back to my game until the next day since grandma insisted that I spend the night over her house. For 27 hours, my NES was paused with SMB 3 in the deck.

Have you ever left a game paused for a long while be it purposely or accidentally? How long?

[SoulBlazer]

I can recall playing Little Nemo: The Dream Master by Capcom right after it came out. I really liked the game, it's still kind unique today, but it had no save or password feature. So......

The NES stayed on for over THREE DAYS straight while I played the game when I could and paused it when I could'nt.

I'm sure others can top that, though......

[Arqueologia_Digital]

I think only one or two minutes on every games (i have to go to the bath)

[Drexel923]

I think I've only left a game on pause for maybe overnight at the most.

The NES stayed on for over THREE DAYS straight while I played the game when I could and paused it when I could'nt.

All I have to say is

[nesman85]

when i was a little kid a used to leave games paused overnight so i could play them where i left off from the next morning. one time ice hockey was left on in the nes for like 3 days on accident because it was hooked up to a tv in a side room so nobody saw it and i forgot to turn it off.

[maxlords]

I left my Genesis 2 on for a few days once.....I forgot it was on and didn't notice and then one day I saw the little red light I wish I knew exactly how long it was on...but it still works so no biggie!

[Anonymous]

I've left my NES ans SNES on at work paused for over 4 days (when I'm not at work). I think the longest is a battle in FF3 where I paused it, went to E3, and came back (just about 2 weeks).

[Gamereviewgod]

Me and a friend took on Rampage on my 6th or 7th birthday. We were on like level 64 or something and we went to Major magics for the party, leaving it on for about 5 hours, coming back home to beat it that night. But 3 days...damn.

[scooterb23]

I accidentally left my XBox on for 26 hours straight. I thought I turned it off after playing a game of World Series Baseball...guess I didn't. When I realized it was still on, I did what anyone would do...I played a couple of games, then turnedit off

[Kim Possible]

When I was a kid, I left an NES game ( I forget which) paused for like 6 hours when my mom wanted to go to the store or something. I remember because when we returned and she found out, I thought she was going to explode. ("You left it on for HOW long? Do you KNOW how much the electric bill is going to be....")

[brandver3]

When we got Yu Gi Oh for the PS2 we left the thing on fro 2 1/2 days, you could only save on game per memory card, so we had to wait till we could afford another one.

I left a PS1 on for 22 hours once (9 of them I was actually playing).

[zektor]

Haha. I remember I was actually playing Keith Courage a few days after I bought the TG16, and paused it while I packed for a month long trip to England. I didn't even think about what I had forgotten until two weeks of being there. Well, a month later I came back home and it was still paused, still alive. It was very very warm however.

[IGotTheDot]

Working through crunch last year, I left SSX Tricky running in my office for weeks on end. That game is soooo stable. I don't think it was paused though. I usually left it on the race complete screen.

[dave2236]

Ive never left mine on overnight, but many friends let their NES systems on overnight many times.

I was fascinated when Tecmo Super Bowl had a battery!!!

[sniperCCJVQ]

Back in the day when RBI Baseball was released for the NES, i play the long ass season and you need to pause the game because it don't have code to stopped the console and play later. It probably stay on pause for 24hr.

[CRaCKeRJaCK1980]

The longest I have ever left a NES on was just around 8 weeks straight. We were doing a test to see if the nintendo would actually crash or burn up or what might have you. But nothing happened. Worked great, was playing SMB 1 and paused on the 3rd level somewere. Wonder how long it really would last? 2 months 4 months? Anybody want to try? I can try, I got 53 Nintendo's at my house, I guess I could spare 1 . Anyways, off to work I go,.

[EnemyZero]

Yeah overnight is my longest too, lol I remember Major Magics , I used to have my parties there all the time and I always thought that was a local chain o.O....anyways...I fell asleep playing solstice for NES , that game was so much fun but drove me nuts! woke up the next day and just played till night time till i beat it

[Oberfuhrer Hamm]

Yeah overnight is my longest too, lol I remember Major Magics , I used to have my parties there all the time and I always thought that was a local chain o.O....anyways...I fell asleep playing solstice for NES , that game was so much fun but drove me nuts! woke up the next day and just played till night time till i beat it

Solstice... good fun but such a pain in the ass. I have never beaten it, only got to 33%...

[Tempest]

7 days. I accidentally left my Atari 400 once on when I went to visit my grandparents. When I came back I turned on the TV there was Miner 2049er still paused where I left it.

That 400 still works to this day. Built Tough. Atari Tough.

Tempest

[swlovinist]

Upon getting my ass kicked by Yoshimitsu on Tekken 3, my significant other told me that it was time to leave for vacation. After a week, and forgetting socks, I also forgot to turn off my origional playstaton. I must be very very lucky, because the dang thing kept on working two years after that until I traded it in!!!!!............................I am sorry if yours was left on and died!!!