Mario Brothers

So here we go with some Break Room statistics talk. The reason for all of this is that most of the time when I take breaks from video gaming with people, we talk about video games. One subject that can come up fairly often is exactly how much of a particular video game we've played.

The Mario Brothers have taken up a lot of the hours of my life. I figure if my life was measured in percentages of stuff I have done it would come out looking like this:

Sleep 32%
Eat     5%
stand in a line 1%
watch tv/movies 4%
read books 4%
play music 2%
conversation in person 5%
conversation by telephone 3%
bathroom stuff 3%
video games 7%
non-video games 2%
driving / travelling 1%
athletics 4%
sit in school learning 3%
sit in school not learning 3%
indescribable moments of insane beauty .01 %
zoning out 3%
shopping 1%
wasting time on internet 3%
writing 1%
cleaning random things 2%
waiting 1%
work 12%

which adds up to 100.01 %

But if we divide up the important video game part it would look like this.

video games

Nintendo      25%
PC                27%
iphone            2%
Diku MUD    31%
sega                .3%
xbox               9%
playstation       3%
gameboy         2%

(as a note, MUDs can be extremely addicting. I played one called DarkCastle. I'm sure I'll discuss that more in later Break Room articles).

Okay, so now lets delve into the Nintendo area.

Nintendo

Mario Brothers games
(including super
mario kart games, mario rpg,    
mario 1, 2, 3, super mario
world, and mario 64)                   50%
Legend of Zelda games                8%
metal gear                                     3%
sports games                                 5%
puzzle games (tetris)                     2%
shooters                                        5%
Sim games                                    12%
TMNT games                                6%
Mortal Kombat type games            3%


Breakdown by Mario Brothers Games

Super Mario 1                    3%
Super Mario 2                    3.5%
Super Mario 3                    5%
Super Mario World            5%
Mario RPG                         .5%
Paper Mario                        .25%
Mario 64                             7%
Super Mario Kart                74%
Mario Kart 64                      .5%
Mario Kart Double Dash     .25%

Now what are the total hours involved?

There's really no telling, but I know that I've played more than 1,000 hours of Super Mario Kart
whereas I probably played Mario RPG for about 14 hours and I probably played Super Mario 1 for about 50 hours.

Hmm. This whole thing is skewed for me though. I at first thought that SMK was the game I had played more than anything but now I realize my numbers could be way off because of some other games, namely:

Empire Earth
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Sins of a Solar Empire
Age of Empires I
Age of Empires II
Age of Mythology
Darkcastle MUD

I shudder to think of the many hours that I've spent with those games. Far more than the scant 1000 I spent playing SMK. Darkcastle represents the craziest share of my video game playing time at something like 10,000 hours.

I'm really cringing at the knowledge of this right now. I think I'm going to stay in the Video Game Break Room for a while until I get my bearings.

Anyway, please share how much time you've spent playing games. What games have you played the most? How many hours???