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jakeXT

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Sun Dec 29, 2013, 07:48 PM Dec 2013

Live: A Swedish gamer is attempting to play the classic Atari game "Missile Command" for 100 hours [View all]

A Swedish gamer is attempting to play the classic Atari game "Missile Command" for 100 hours straight.

In March, 27-year-old economics student Victor Sanberg broke the high-score record, which was set in in 1982, over 56 hours of game play.

Now he has shattered that record and aims to play the game for 100 hours on a single credit. Owen Good of Kotaku notes that would be a record across all arcade games.

Sandberg builds up extra lives so that he can step away from the machine for up to six minutes at a time, but playing over days obviously takes its toll.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/missile-command-for-100-hours-2013-12

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