Joyswag: Win Grand Theft Auto IV on your platform of choice [Day 3]

by Christopher Grant { May 2nd 2008 at 5:45PM }

Day one and day two of our Grand Theft Giveaway are both over and, while you've been getting a solid eight hours of shut-eye all this week, your GTA IV playing pals have barely caught one wink. Want to be cool like them and deprive your body of the sleep it so desperately needs to keep you healthy? Here's what you need to do:

To enter this giveaway, leave a comment telling us your preferred platform and the longest amount of time you've ever spent playing a game.
You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec).
Limit 1 entry per person in this post (comment more than once and you'll be disqualified, but try again tomorrow).
This entry period ends at 5:00pm ET on Saturday, May 3rd. We'll randomly select a winner at that time (please check your email!).
For a list of complete rules, click here.

Tags: GTAIV

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 22)

miyagi @ May 2nd 2008 5:48PM

PS3

Everquest back in the day for way too long :(

McStabbie @ May 2nd 2008 6:01PM

Xbox 30
Wreckless driving into crowds of pedestrians!!!

uraligoss @ May 2nd 2008 6:23PM

xbox 360. 18 hours straight on wow.

Tiptup300 @ May 2nd 2008 9:20PM

PS3
24hour marathon

Curtis the Claw:XBL - supapaypamawio @ May 2nd 2008 5:49PM

Xbox 360

I played wow for 36 hours straight, that was insane.

Tim Harding @ May 2nd 2008 5:49PM

360

12 hours

Dastigo @ May 3rd 2008 1:49PM

Xbox 360

Probably upwards of 12 hours playing Deus Ex on PC. Still one of if not my favorite games.

Jay @ May 2nd 2008 5:49PM

360

DefDealer @ May 2nd 2008 5:50PM

360

Mike @ May 2nd 2008 5:50PM

360

Not too long... max is like 4 to 5 hours, then my tired eyes get too strained.

deaftly @ May 2nd 2008 5:50PM

PS3

200+ hours in FF7 :(

Lord Bowser @ May 3rd 2008 12:10PM

I'm a cheap bastard who wants free shit.

tno @ May 2nd 2008 5:50PM

x360, 24 hours, interspersed with breaks for work things.

Leo-Jay @ May 2nd 2008 5:50PM

XBOX 360

Way back in the shady days of yesteryear (I think it was about 1998), I played Xenogears for 27 hours running.

I'd've gone longer, but my Playstation overheated and melted. No, seriously, it started to melt.

Chris @ May 2nd 2008 5:51PM

World of Warcraft and Goldeneye (N64) would get me in troubl for playing way toooo long.

360 Please!

Artimus @ May 2nd 2008 5:51PM

XBOX 360

A 20 hour marathon of Final Fantasy 5 with one of my friends.

Alan Trafton @ May 2nd 2008 5:51PM

My preferred console is 360 and under the hailstorm that was the halo 3 midnight party, I skipped work and played for a straight 14 hours until my eyelids crusted over, and my TV burnt out,(which it did) :(

sicsided @ May 2nd 2008 5:52PM

53 hours of counter strike some version around 1.3 or lower.

PS3

Jerry Paxton @ May 2nd 2008 5:52PM

Xbox 360....

37 hours straight waiting for the 'Old Man' to walk by in Star Wars Galaxies so I can ask him about becoming a Jedi. I was young...and lame...

The_Black_Circle @ May 2nd 2008 5:52PM

PS3, Final damn Fantasy games, several after all was said and done ran about 90+ hrs, Final Fantasy 10 I believe has the most time put in, hours upon hours of hacking monsters and leveling up, getting every item possible, etc.
CoD4 is quickly becoming a contender.

Zertoss @ May 2nd 2008 5:52PM

Xbox 360

Diablo 2 for 41 hours. And what a 41 hours that was.

bjtrumps @ May 2nd 2008 5:53PM

360 - GTA III 9 hours straight....

Borman @ May 2nd 2008 5:53PM

PS3

36 hours+++ on FFXI.

Gregorius @ May 2nd 2008 5:53PM

PS3 - 12 hours straight

Doominurpants @ May 2nd 2008 5:53PM

XanthouS @ May 2nd 2008 5:53PM

PS3

72 hour Counter-Strike LAN back in high school. 20+ people, we literally napped at our comp chairs.

Christian @ May 2nd 2008 5:54PM

PS3, and total play time in WoW was somewhere over 2000 hours back when I stopped playing. =/

nusilver @ May 2nd 2008 5:54PM

still trying to win a copy for my friend...360 please.

I'm guessing the longest uninterrupted session I've done is something like 12 hours of Zelda OOT.

Tony Livingston @ May 2nd 2008 5:54PM

Xbox 360

I remember back in the day me any my friends played Super Smash Bros. Melee for what must have been 20 hours straight.

Ben P @ May 2nd 2008 5:55PM

360

However long the session was it was definitely in WoW

TheSipe @ May 2nd 2008 5:55PM

360

The longest single stretch was about 36 hours after a midnight launch of halo 2. We didn't even fire up the campaign.

Doom3killer @ May 2nd 2008 5:56PM

360

97 hours :( pokemon ruby

Mikezula @ May 2nd 2008 5:56PM

PS3

Around 10 hours straight (on Chrono Trigger).

KVN @ May 2nd 2008 5:56PM

xbox360 I played killer instinct for about 12 hours when it came out on snes.Goldeneye for about 10 hours four player split screen ftw.

Weeeeee @ May 2nd 2008 5:56PM

PS3.

Spent all day (and night) in a Diablo II session back in the glory days of college.

Moofree @ May 2nd 2008 5:57PM

360.
Longest game time was a 40-something hour Starcraft gaming session back when SC first came out.

saintrobyn @ May 2nd 2008 5:57PM

48 Hour Counter Strike Lan Party.

Ignatius @ May 2nd 2008 5:57PM

Xbox 360 of course. DLC FTW.

Scott Weiss @ May 2nd 2008 5:57PM

PS3

Longest consecutive session was probably Oblivion the first time I got it, it was probably around 18 hours?... Longest total gameplay was definitely Pokemon Red, over 200 hours :P

Penguin Warlord @ May 2nd 2008 5:57PM

Xbox 360
12 Hours of minesweeper, oh yeah.

7 @ May 2nd 2008 5:57PM

Xbox 360,

Most time played straight except for food/bathroom breaks is probably around 10hrs. Most time overall is probably around 400days or so in EQ.

David @ May 2nd 2008 5:58PM

360 !!!
Around 12 hours, maybe more, playing counter strike back in the day... stayed up all night/morning at small lan parties

danny. @ May 2nd 2008 5:58PM

360. Lineage II beta... accidental all nighter. I've avoided MMOs since then.

clerkenwell @ May 2nd 2008 5:59PM

360.

24 hours on Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Those were the days...

bigd7387 @ May 2nd 2008 5:59PM

Xbox 360!!! 20 hours playing Wonderboy 3 in Monster World for the Sega Master System.

Bryan @ May 2nd 2008 5:59PM

I remember some FF7 marathons in my younger, more foolish days.

Oh, and 360.

Bakudan @ May 2nd 2008 5:59PM

360

20 hours. After Chains of Olympus I had the urge to go back to GOW 1 and 2, back to back.
Sped through 1, and then when I got to 2 it was too tiring.