Man Beats, Breaks Bejeweled 2 After 2,205 Hours

[Marcus Yam]

Have you put that much time into a single game before?

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[Guest]

If the max score the game could display was 2,147,483,647 how did he end up with 2,147,783,647? 0.o

 

[rpmrush]

Ahh, I love it! That's what 3 years of bored dumps will do.

 

[builderbobftw]

Somebody needs a life...

 

[LORD_ORION]

Wow... at least most old games reset back to 0.

Now come on... who remembers the lingo form the Atari 2600 days. "Hey Man! I flipped pac-man on my Atari."

 

[tinmann]

The most I could ever get was 475,000, give or take a few hundred.

 

[kriswitak]

[citation][nom]Sirian[/nom]If the max score the game could display was 2,147,483,647 how did he end up with 2,147,783,647? 0.o[/citation]

When Mike collected that next gem match, the additional 2,200 points would have put his score above the maximum ‘calculable’ score, and much like some of the original arcade games, it caused his score to ‘flip around’ to a negative number.

Learn to read, nub.

 

[reklatsa]

[citation][nom]LORD_ORION[/nom]Wow... at least most old games reset back to 0[/citation]

But you'd be sick if you hit 2,147,783,646 got a gem match and the score suddenly returned to Zero. Some people in his position might even blow their own brains out.

 

[JasonAkkerman]

Tisk, tisk, they should have used an unsigned variable.

 

[nforce4max]

[citation][nom]builderbobftw[/nom]Somebody needs a life...[/citation]

Some of us have nothing to do after having lost a job or couldn't get one after searching for two years with out jack. Not all of us are born with a silver spoon.

 

[matt87_50]

lol, how demoralizing would it be after all that time to see your score go backwards by 4 billion!

 

[jhansonxi]

I remember rolling the score counter on Space Dungeon on an Atari 5200. I think my friend and I played for ten hours straight. Earned a ridiculous number of extra lives in the end (probably 255). It was a 2-stick game but we played cooperatively with me shooting and him flying. Just don't have that kind of free time anymore.

 

[orionantares]

That's pretty lazy programming for this day and age.

 

[Guest]

I never go for numbers...numbers are so meaningless....i go for winning the game....i remember playing a Ghostbuster game on the genesis..last level...all my big guns has been wiped out because my character died, but i still have a lot of lives left, so stuck with a puny gun to fight the last boss battle...the horror...i have to just hide in the corner and shoot/duck for maybe 2 hours at 4am or something....torturous indeed...my eyes can barely open and my thumbs are on auto-pilot!!! LOL.

 

[proxy711]

91 days played that's really not much compared to heavy MMO player over multiple years. Honestly id rather put that 91 days into a MMO or a hobby then a game like Bejeweled.

but grats to him.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]Some of us have nothing to do after having lost a job or couldn't get one after searching for two years with out jack. Not all of us are born with a silver spoon.[/citation]
No offense, but look harder. You really should not be playing games if you don't have a job... just saying.

 

[Guest]

@JasonAkkerman "Well, the game’s code wasn’t designed to display a negative number so it just showed a blank where the score should be!" it is unsigned, that's why it can't show negative 😛

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]kriswitak[/nom]When Mike collected that next gem match, the additional 2,200 points would have put his score above the maximum ‘calculable’ score, and much like some of the original arcade games, it caused his score to ‘flip around’ to a negative number.Learn to read, nub.[/citation]
The difference in his score and the max calculable is 300,000 points. How does adding 2,200 account for the difference? It doesn't -- you don't know the answer to his question do you? Glad you can read, but apparently math is not your strong point.

 

[thesupermedium]

So 2,205 hours working minimum wage of $7.50 is... $16537.50? So Bejeweled or perhaps an Uber i7 980x with quadfire 5970s and 12 monitors... Hmmm... At least he got on Tom's Hardware?

 

[Bruceification73]

Wait a minute, he played for 91.875 entire days out of three years? And all he got was a fan page? Wasted three years, if you ask me.