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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Man 'beats' Bejeweled 2 after playing for 3 years]]></title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bejeweled.com/fan03.php"><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/02/gambejeweledpic580.jpg" alt="" /></a></div>
<span style="float: right; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 4px;"><script> digg_url = 'http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/'; </script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js"></script></span> We admire all forms of dedication -- even the absolutely <em>insane</em> forms. A California steel contractor named Mike Leyde recently displayed one such type of persistence by <a href="http://www.bejeweled.com/fan03.php">playing a single round</a> of his casual game of choice, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/bejeweled-2"><em>Bejeweled 2</em></a>, for 2,205 hours and 51 minutes over the course of three years. In that time, he collected 4,872,229 gems, earning the game's highest calculable score, 2,147,483,647, at which point the score display got really perplexed and went blank. (Check out a video of Mike's achievement after the jump.)<br />
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According to PopCap, Leyde is the first person to ever "beat" <em>Bejeweled 2</em>. That's one way of looking at it, we suppose. Another way of looking at it is to say that everyone else who's ever played <em>Bejeweled 2</em> is a <em>quitter</em>. Yeah, that's right. Why don't you follow through with something for once in your life? <em>Sheesh</em>.<p><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Man 'beats' Bejeweled 2 after playing for 3 years</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/">Man 'beats' Bejeweled 2 after playing for 3 years</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:28:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.bejeweled.com/fan03.php>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/19460148/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/man-beats-bejeweled-2-after-playing-for-3-years/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>Apple</category><category>bejeweled</category><category>bejeweled-2</category><category>Bejeweled-Twist</category><category>casual</category><category>high-score</category><category>iPod</category><category>kill-screen</category><category>match-3</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>mike-leyde</category><category>popcap</category><category>PopCap-Games</category><category>Xbox-360</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Griffin McElroy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:28:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>