How long is your average gaming session?

[Rhindle The Red]

When you take time to play a video game, how long does it take? Do you generally go in short bursts or are marathons more likely?

[Dusk2600]

depends on the game, ect ect

[TROGDOR]

My coding and my gaming habits are similar. Usually in one to two hour bursts.

[jpfalcon2003]

usually a couple hours, but a certain game can keep me occupied longer if i'm having fun.

[bones]

really depends on what's being played. I'll take 30 minutes or so to blow through Metal Slug, but will spend a few hours at a time on RPGs. Overall it's probably a bit less than an hour per session.

[SpaceInvader]

An hour is probably a safe bet. It really depends on the game and what else is going on in life...

I don't get to play as often as I'd like.... I'm not great at most games, but I enjoy the hell out of playing...

So, as time allows, I play... When I was younger I'd play all day long... but i guess life has to have a balance...

 

SI

[8th lutz]

Depends on what genre. If I am not stuck an a rpg it could be 1 or 2 hours at a time.

[The_Laird]

I pretty much only get the time to play games on my days of so usually I end up playing all day! Definately a 4 hour +

[+remowilliams]

Depends on the platform and game type. Older consoles tend to get more shorter play periods, while newer consoles/games are usually less instances but longer play periods.

 

But I'll go with the 1-2 usually. Unless it's CIV IV or something.

 

Or Oblivion - then it could be 10 plus!

[mister_pal]

Or Oblivion - then it could be 10 plus!

Same Here

[sega saturn x]

About an hour or so, older games much less.

[moycon]

If you had asked me a couple months ago my answer would have been different, but since I've gotten the 360 There's been late nights where Ive literally played like 8 hours on the thing!

 

Usually an hour at least though probably average.

[Room 34]

Being a parent really dictates how long I play. If I didn't have kids, I'd probably spend all day on a Sunday playing Metroid Prime or Ninja Gaiden Black or one of the Prince of Persia games or Riddick or Zelda or, well, you get the idea. Those adventure games can suck me in for hours at a time. But most of the time I can usually only manage about an hour at a time... and WHICH games I play depend a lot on whether or not my 3-year-old son is with me. No Riddick for him!

[keilbaca]

Depends on the game, the majority is between 10 min and a half hour. If its ddr or guitar hero, i can go for more than an hour easily.

[jaybird3rd]

Mine tend to be mostly ten to fifteen minutes at a time, with the longest going up to 45 minutes. It's rare that I have any time for more these days.

[doctorclu]

Doom for the Jaguar!! I will sit and play that for a good while. Other than that, I don't play games much at the moment. (Sometimes Bubsy).

[ATARIPITBULL]

When I get the time to play, I will play for at least 2 hours or more, which is usually at night on Fridays, when the kids are sleeping.

 

[marcfrick2112]

Wow, really hard question, seriously.... when I first got my 7800 from a pawn shop, got it working, thought I stick some game called 'Food Fight' in...I played it for about 90 minutes until I got interupted, later that night I played it again for one hour....I still play it way too much. it really depends on the game, tho, and maybe the system. The systems I play longest on are Atari 7800, Sega Saturn, and Dreamcast ( curse those roller coater making games) , oh, and my C-64 playing Mail Order Monsters, WAY too long, at least 4 hours on occasion.....

 

[jpfalcon2003]

The other night my older brother played 7800 Ms. Pac-Man for 4 hours till he beat his score.

[ataridude81]

depends on the game an atari game 10 minutes to hour. nes,genesis hour or two. but playstation or newer i can get alot of gameplay. i got star wars knight's of the old republic 2 for pc at wal-mart the other day and played it for 12 hours. i'm a die hard star wars fan i got hooked and couldn't get off untill my body said i needed some sleep.

[Foxsolo2000]

Depends totally on the game. I used to play Panzer General and Civilisation 2 for the PS virtually all day and most of the night. 2600 games usually an hour if it is games like HERO, Solaris etc. On average for my PS2 games I would say 2 hours

[Famicoman]

School has reaced a tough point now. I only really game when my friend comes over, which could be daily, and he doesn't have high speed interent, so we play a huge amount of games. We have played about 7 hours straight a few times.

Other than that, I only play gams for about 5 minutes to test them.

[Omegamatrix]

About half an hour. Sometimes I get going and don't stop for a few hours though.

[Crazy Climber]

Every saturday I wake up and jam on my atari for about an hour or so (much longer if I put Megamania in) but my day job lets me play handhelds so I can easily kill hours playing tetris

[atwwong]

On average, I'd have to say about an hour.