Do playing videogames make you stay up too late?

[joshnickerson]

I recently was up until after 1am playing Twilight Princess, though it was a Saturday night so I didn't have to worry about getting up for work the next morning. The latest I ever stayed up playing a game was Super Mario 64 back in high school. I remember I was in the Dry Dry Desert pyramid when I looked at the clock and saw it was nearly 3am.

I generally don't play games late at night anymore, cause I tend to have a hard time falling asleep after a big play session. Either that, or I'm just getting old *L*.

[kainemaxwell]

Happens sometimes if I get really into it I'll stay up till 1 or 2 in the morning. I only do that on days I don't have to open at work the next day though.

[Overbite]

Nope. I stop playing around 8pm whenever I get to a save spot. On weekends when I play I stay up later, but not past 10.

[ROBOTNIK666]

No, not on school nights. However, on weekends when my friends come over, this equation usually sums put the night: Early evening movie+Buffalo Joe's Meal+Runescape+Adult Swim=Staying up until 10:00 the following morning.

[SEGA-SAMMY]

I'm a night person at heart so i'm always up super late, my job and school scheduale allow me to do this for the most part, so I guess i'm lucky. Whenever a new Metal Gear game comes out i'll stay up way, way past when I should though. It's almost become a tradition with MGS games. Some good memories watching MGS3s endiing at 7 in the morning with the sun coming up back in the day.

[slip81]

not really. I think the latest I've ever stayed up playing a game was 3am or so on Resident Evil 2.

Next closest was around 2am with Xenogears, but that was mainly due to no save points and very long text heavy cutscenes.

[Bassgrabber]

ummmmm... I lack the discipline to get offline OR stop playing games OR reading a good book when I should just cease and desist and submit to the Sandman's droopy eyelid syndrome. Used to be easier to pull all-nighters.. or almost-all-nighters when I was about 20 years younger... but I still get away with it. And yeah, I DO pay for it Willingly.

I just sleep in on Sundays...

[videogameking26]

Yes I do it quite often but I don't have to work till the evening so it's all good, usually only play till around 4-5 am on most nights and go to bed around 6 am on work days, non work days I game almost the whole night and sleep the day away...lol.

[john_soper]

I'm echoing the previous poster, having a baby pretty much stopped my gaming cold. You learn to go to bed early in case they have a rough night.

Always wondered what those latenighters were costing me healthwise. When they interview people over 100, one common theme is they mention getting plenty of sleep.

[Richter Belmount]

Trying to kill wizards in zelda at 4am is no easy task. A harder thing to do is play metal gear solid 2 with no break from cutscene when you got to go the freakin john.

[bangtango]

Only when playing portables, like Game Boy Advance, since I can play them in bed while lying down. It is usually stuff like the Zelda's or Pokemon's that "get" me.

[Keir]

Almost every day this week, unfortunately! With 2 toddlers I pretty much have no free time, so if I want to play a game it means missing sleep. Having received Guitar Hero II for Christmas, I couldn't resist (I actually did wait until last Thursday to try it out). I always say I'm just going to play 1 or 2 songs, and next thing I know it's midnight. Sadly, I can't keep doing this so I'm going to have to put it away for a while so I won't be tempted to play.

[Kamisama]

Usually not. I was pretty addicted to some mmorpg until 9 months ago which made me skip sleep from time to time Now its pretty normal again

[ave]

Yes, it does. I just played a Doujin Shoot'em up and as you can see - I'm still online. Gotta get up in 6hrs >_>

[Schenley]

Well, let's see... Here's what I played tonight:

about 4 hours of Viva Pinata
about 2 hours of Gears of War
about 1 hour of Lost Planet
about 3 hours of Burnout Revenge

I just wanted to do 1 or 2 Crash Junctions on Revenge, and ended up playing all night...

Bedtime

[insinion]

World of warcraft was my cocaine addiction.. Sometimes i stayed up till 6am then i went to take a shower and got on the bus to school. So glad i've been clean for over 6 months now.

[calthaer]

I love video gaming, and it is probably tied with reading for my #1 hobby. Maybe a little bit below reading, actually, but still.

Even so, hobbies are just that: hobbies. Side-activities. There is real life, there is work, there are real relationships with real people, and etc.

When I was in college, I stayed up late gaming (of course, last semester my EARLIEST class was 1 p.m.). Not any more, though. It is simply necessary to develop the self-discipline to keep the side stuff to the side. Going to work with too few hours of sleep is hell - I can't be the best worker to my employers, friend to my friends, etc. when I'm dead tired.

So I don't stay up late.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Once in a while it keeps me up but I can usually draw the line, if I don't have anything going on in the morning then I will play till 3 or 4 in the morning too often

[Streetball 21]

I try to wrap up playing games early, but I always end up staying up late. And usually, I'll pay the price at work the next morning.

[Golden Bear]

Yes, as a matter of fact, they do.