We’ve all had those nights when it feels like we’re glued to a controller. Our hands sweat, our eyes hurt, we don’t even know what our character is doing, but at that point, you’re not going to quit the game unless it’s to charge the controller for half an hour and keep playing, right? Well, no matter how much you’ve played, I assure you that you’ll feel much better knowing that there are people even more addicted than you. Please, don’t take it as a challenge.
Gaming Marathon
It is the case of Kory Breaden, a resident of Nanaimo, Canada, who one day in August sat down to stream ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ on his PS5. He wouldn’t get up from his chair until 145 hours, 29 minutes, and 41 seconds later. Do the math: over six days without doing anything else but playing ‘Call of Duty’. If Activision didn’t send him a pillow for the nap afterwards, they should have.
To make sure there was no cheating, Breaden showed it on his Twitch channel: he was only allowed 10 minutes of rest for every hour of gameplay, which was accumulative: if he played six hours in a row, he was entitled to sleep for one. Anyone could do it this way! In the end, in six days, he slept for about eleven and a half hours, and endured this state between life and sleep by eating junk food to be able to resist. Along the way, he had injuries on his left thumb, which ended up with bruises, and had to play ‘John Wick’ in the background to wake him up from the shots. Yes, the shots in the game were few, apparently.
He is not the only one with an impossible record playing video games, although in this case it’s dancing: Carrie Swiderski, a woman from California, played ‘Just Dance 4’ for 49 hours, 3 minutes and 22 seconds. If you already feel exhausted after two hours, imagine going at it for over two days. It’s like a year’s worth of gym, right?
