Man Beats, Breaks Bejeweled 2 After 2,205 Hours

[roleki]

On first blush, 2200 hours sounds like a lot but that only works out to 2 hours a day, if he played every day over the past 3 years. I can't imagine playing Bejeweled for 2 hours, let alone 2 hours a day, let alone 2 hours a day for three years, but for some people, that does it for them.

 

[gwolfman]

That's over 2 hours a day for 3 years straight. What a waste of time.

 

[megamanx00]

I take it he doesn't get out much.

 

[tethoma]

I had well over 2000 hours into a game called Continuum. Extreme games for life! In fact most users that are still active (alot) have that many hours or more. Its like team based Asteroids on steroids with flags.

 

[anbaxter]

wow! this guy wastes time with authority! lol

 

[thebigt42]

He needs to find a girl!

 

[fatfatr]

92 days of play time doesn't seem like an amazing amount since I've played WoW for atleast half that amount within less than a year. But we have to take note that this guy was playing BEJEWELED. That sounds amazing to me, since I'd go nuts after playing for a few hours.

 

[JamesSneed]

@kriswitak while Siran is taking your advice learning to read why dont you learn a bit of math.

Siran had a valid question. The real answer is that 2 to the 31st power minus 1 is not 2,147,483,647 it is really 2,147,483,647. Toms typoed. So Siran wondering why 300,000 is all the sudden less than 2,200 was a valid point(2,147,483,647 - 2,147,783,647 = 300,000).

 

[JamesSneed]

LOL what I get for doing two things at once. Anyhow the part about 2,147,483,647 - 2,147,783,647 = 300,000 was correct. doh

 

[Guest]

Hmmm... Why weren't Popcap using unsigned ints for the score? Doesn't make sense to have a negative score. Unless it's JAVA they were using in which case they can't have unsigned numbers.

This kinda reminds me of an old integer overflow bug in Frontier Elite II, that allowed the user to travel absolutely massive distances into some of the 'unexplored' regions of space. Frontier was 16-bits though so it wasn't that hard to cause an overflow. Cool bug though- I'd nearly rank that one more as a 'feature'.

 

[ksampanna]

I bet he's divorced.

 

[dark_lord69]

The most time I ever put into one game was likely Diablo 2. But on a timer I can say for sure I put over 100 hours into Final Fantasy 7 (I maxed out everything in the game).

 

[turbolover22]

Many years ago before I knew anything about ints, shorts, unsigned ints, longs, etc.. I used to play Tetris for hours. I played for hours on the hardest fastest level. Then one day after playing for hours I noticed that the number of lines cleared was going up but the score wasn't. I have no idea how many times I had coincidentally gotten the same high score no matter how long I played.

There are two things that bug me about games like this.
1. When the programmers don't think far enough in advance to figure out what kind of scores are acheivable if someone really enjoys your game and plays it all the time.
2. When the high score list only allows your name to be a certain length. When a common name like Danielle is too long to be entered completely it shows a complete lack of thought in the development process.

 

[tacoslave]

[citation][nom]thesupermedium[/nom]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?[/citation]
Dude anyone can get on toms all you need to do is text while shooting someone. Really it doesnt take much as long as silicon is in the story😉

 

[zaam]

I was hoping his score was going to be something ridiculous like in Mario when you get more than 99 lives.

Your score is one exclamation mark, and a blue flag.

 

[beachbod]

Whos to say he wasnt using hacks.