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Posted: Dec 6th 2009 10:27PM (Unverified) said

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Definately the time I faked being sick so I could come home from a family dinner to play Diablo 2 when I first got it!

Posted: Dec 6th 2009 10:28PM snopes said

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Playing Yoshi's Island 2 on my way to Disney World.

Posted: Dec 6th 2009 11:08PM trevrock said

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On a trip to South America to meet in-laws I was able to finally beat Final Fantasy 1 on my Gameboy Advanced. I can die a happy man now. Going again this year, so this prize would be perfect, hehe.

Posted: Dec 6th 2009 10:30PM (Unverified) said

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ok so I was driving to philly with a friend to hang with our families for christmas. When we stopped into Jersey, I had to charge my PSP so we went into a restaurant and I plugged it in at a table while waiting for our order. The waiter comes up and the first thing he mentions is the PSP. I'm like yea.. and btw I'd like a burger. Thanks bud. So he left kinda annoyed. I went to use the bathroom and when I came back our burgers were there... well my friend's burger was there.. but instead of a burger my PSP was in between the bread. I exploded!! I was like WTF in a blind rage. Turned out it was my friend who did it.

Posted: Dec 6th 2009 10:39PM nbskid said

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When I was a kid and flying home from Eastern Washington to home, my plane was delayed over and over because of snow, and the little airport just shut down. I spent hours multiple times at that airport, reading gaming magazines, which really helped pass the time. When I finally made it home, I took a little plane that I thought was going to just break apart mid flight, it was so noisy. Eesh.

Posted: Dec 6th 2009 10:50PM demauk said

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I can only think of one thing. During a 28-hour bus ride, listening to Dream Theatre (hey, I was only 19 or so), I experienced what I can only describe as exhaustion-induced hallucination. It was just a few strange images, and it only lasted a couple of minutes, but it felt like a video game!

I think 358/2 would be quite appropriate!

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 12:54AM VanillaRomance said

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I remember playing Pokemon on the long drives upstate with my brother, and the fights that would ensue as a result of him losing. Ah, fun fun.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 12:57AM (Unverified) said

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I played Animal Crossing on the DS for the entire plane trip to France - which is like 11 hours. I made some strangers start their own houses too - I haven't played in such a long time, but I forget how charming that little package is.
Animal Crossing has a bizarre drawing power - and I think it operates on such a visceral level that it's hard for people to not find themselves invested.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 2:56AM (Unverified) said

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having a quite 2 hour ride to Sacramento by lending and eventually passing on my NDS lite to my 3 year old son. He was quite and content the WHOLE time it's like EUREKA!!!!

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 8:23AM (Unverified) said

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Nearly completed Final Fantasy Adventure on the original GB in one very long road trip.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 9:52AM mdisloki said

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I believe it was Christmas of either 94' or 95' and my family made it's annual trek north to the family party. I played Wario Land for gameboy for the entire ride and then despite my parent's protests I brought it inside and played through the whole party. Merry Christmas!

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 3:57PM (Unverified) said

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I travelled to Chicago for Christmas, took forever to get my luggage at Ohare airport, took a taxi to my father-in-laws. It did not bother me because he was loaning us his car to use for the week. Unfortunately, he left said car under a pile of snow for two weeks, and the battery was dead. I had to shovel the car out of the snow, it took an hour, and then I had to pay to get it jumped. That took 2 hours of waiting for the tow truck to show up. It was 9 degrees out and I am from Louisiana where the winter is maybe 35 to 40 degrees. Meanwhile my father-in-law and my wife went Christmas shopping without me.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 11:11AM Deona said

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Playing my GBA while on the road to my grandma's house. Kept me occupied for the loooong trip.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 11:46AM (Unverified) said

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One time, me and several friends were on a school trip. Since there were so few of us, we ended up going by car. Since the teacher taking us didn't want to drive his own car, he ended up renting one. Anyway, when we were on some very choice mountain roads me and my friends managed to get him to go over 100mph. That was fun.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 11:53AM Sash said

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Playing DS on any flight! what a lifesaver and time spender. nothing like it. Never fails!

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 1:09PM (Unverified) said

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The time we played through Vectorman using my best friend's Nomad. That was a great holiday.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 12:46PM sickrubik said

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Living on the coast of California, we don't see much snow, but a couple years ago while making my way into the california valley to visit the GF and her family, i ran into a bunch of snow in the Cuyama valley. I had to get out and take pictures and play a bit in the snow. Being California, it was warm enough to just stand around in a t-shirt, but snowing. Excellent.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 1:02PM (Unverified) said

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DS on a flight to Japan from NC. LIFESAVER.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 1:25PM (Unverified) said

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How about the time that the dog threw-up all over the back of the car? That was a great story.

(DS game please, since I don't have a psp)

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 1:41PM fourblades said

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Though it's not a gaming system, my netbook, that costs way less than a DS or a PSP-3000/PSP Go, was perfect for hulu.com and Plants vs. Zombie! Interesting enough that it can actually do Guild Wars if I lower all settings; same situation with SW:KOTOR.

Got my netbook from Black Friday deals!

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 2:22PM Petersonp said

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Headache.

Posted: Dec 7th 2009 3:32PM moominsean said

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i played a handheld othello game for 13 hours straight on a roadtrip in 1988. i could beat the machine on expert by the time we got where we were going.

Posted: Dec 8th 2009 4:01AM Quest said

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Original GB, Tetris, "romantic getaway"... One of these things doesn't fit. it didn't, and we ended it soon after...

Posted: Dec 8th 2009 4:39AM Gendreavus said

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Best video game travel story would have to be playing Mario Kart DS with three random people on a long bus ride once. I didn't even know who they were or where they were sitting, but somehow we all ended up in pictochat at the same time (apparently I'm not the only person who checks it after getting on a bus...>_>) and decided that Mario Kart was the game to play.

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