My First All-Nighter (MFAN)

[esteban]

Backstory: Inspired by this tangent.

Comrades, it's time once again to share anecdotes from your earliest journeys. "All-Nighter" proper is just that, but when you are a tiny person, simply staying up until 1:00 AM is a rare treat (or feat, depending on your parents).

NOTE: As always, don't try to impress us with your fabrications. Don't try to be Kooler Than Thou, for that is __________'s (insert name of forum member) legacy.

PRO TIP: Include details like food, dress, smells, blah, et cetera.




MFAN: I honestly can't remember the absolute first time I stayed up all night, but it must have been for Metroid or Tiger Heli on NES. Weekend. 1987. My parents did not allow me to waste my brain on TV/video games, so I had to sneak downstairs. Volume barely audible. CREAK UPSTAIRS!!!??? Turn off the TV!!!! Why is the screen still glowing? Is my dad coming downstairs? Silence.
 
Silence. It's the middle of summer. No A/C. Unbearable humidity, even at 3:00 AM. Nothing but briefs. Sweat cascading down.

Silence.

TV power on. Drips of sweat channel between the buttons for channel up and channel down. GET PASSWORD for Metroid IMMEDIATELY.

Damn, that was close.

Dawn breaks.

SHIT. TV IS HOT. DAD WILL KNOW I PLAYED. SHIT!

Bag of frozen peas on back of TV set (a 20" Zenith!)...now, put a record on (to explain why the stereo receiver is warm-to-the-touch).

Human League. Dare.

[LostFlunky]

Circa 1983 - I borrowed Asteroids for the 2600 from a friend at school.  I owned Pac Man, Pitfall, Defender and Combat but wanted some ASTEROIDS!

I started playing it when I came home from school.

The TV was in the basement (unfinished) sitting on a table that my Dad had put together for setting up a model railroad.

I took a break and joined the family for dinner.  Then went back downstairs and started the game up again.

Next thing I knew my Dad was in the stairwell at the top of the stairs grabbing his jacket.  He noticed the sound effects coming from downstairs and saw the glow of the CRT...  

"What are you doing up this early!?!?", he said.  I laughed, but realized that it hurt my eyes to look in any direction except for that of the TV.

I said, "What do you mean?  What time is it?"

When I said that, he realized what had happened, and so did I.  He was leaving to go to work.  It was 6:30 a.m..

[Firebomber7]

My first video game all-nighter was probably at my friend Doug's house when I was in grade 3 or probably 4. That would put it in 1988 or 1989. It definitely would have been the NES. Likely candidate games were Contra, Life Force, Blades of Steel or Ninja Turtles. Probably all of them! Konami freaking ruled.

[Bardoly]

MFAN

I was probably about 13-14 at the time.  Black and white 13" tv playing Mega Man 2 with my 11-12 year-old brother and 12-13 year-old sister alternating control in-between deaths.  Sittting and/or laying on the floor, because the tv was sitting on the floor of our den.  That was the night that we discovered the special invincibility super jump 'trick' by using controller 2.  I mean, whoever wasn't playing had to do something, right?  So someone, I don't remember who started pushing buttons on the second controller while someone was playing the game with controller one, and viola!  A couple months later I read about the 'secret' in Nintendo Power or some gaming magazine and felt so superior because we had guessed figured it out on our own.  I remember that we had to keep the sound low, because our parents were sleeping, and we knew that if we woke them up, that we would be sent to bed.  I also remember that when we finally got to the dragon in Dr. Wily's castle, that it blew our minds.  Also, that level in the castle where you have to shoot all of the bombable bricks at the boss, then die, then restart the level and recharge your crash bombs to be able to finish off the boss was a terror.  We did finally beat Dr. Wily sometime around 7am after which we went to bed. It must have either been a Saturday or a summer weekday, because Mom actually let us sleep all morning recuperating.  I don't remember eating anything all night - we were so entranced and mesmerized by the great game, that we just kept playing, and playing, and playing.......

Good memories.

[CPTRAVE]

Probably Solomens Key (Nintendo), I was around 11-12 years old, but then again we had a few games to play that night, Kid Icarus, Contra, Commando, Russian Attack, Blades of Steel Castlevania. It was a sleepover so my friends and I stayed up all night long.

[ccovell]

Mega Man 2... we discovered the special invincibility super jump 'trick' by using controller 2.
...
I also remember that when we finally got to the dragon in Dr. Wily's castle, that it blew our minds.  Also, that level in the castle where you have to shoot all of the bombable bricks at the boss, then die, then restart the level and recharge your crash bombs to be able to finish off the boss was a terror.

The invincibility trick was in MM3, so maybe you're combining two memories?

[Obfuscate]

Man, hard to remember exact details but I remember staying up all night with my neighbor playing Nintendo. Mostly Baseball Stars, Kung Fu and Ice Hockey.

For Turbo my buddy owned a TG16 before I did and remember sleep overs playing TV Sports Hockey, Legendary Axe and Bloody Wolf

I worked overnights right out of high school at an apartment and use to bring my Nintendo and Simcity and play all night.

[Marll]

Hard to remember for sure, but I think I had a friend stay over that had a TON of NES games (I think we owned about 4 at the time and he had like 30). He ended up falling asleep, but I discovered Zelda....it was all over from there, I could't get enough of adventure and RPGs after that.

[Bardoly]

Mega Man 2... we discovered the special invincibility super jump 'trick' by using controller 2.
...
I also remember that when we finally got to the dragon in Dr. Wily's castle, that it blew our minds.  Also, that level in the castle where you have to shoot all of the bombable bricks at the boss, then die, then restart the level and recharge your crash bombs to be able to finish off the boss was a terror.

The invincibility trick was in MM3, so maybe you're combining two memories?

You know, you must be right.  We probably did an all-nighter for both of them.

[Arkhan Asylum]

My all nighters for gaming that I remember most:

Between 8th and 9th grade I would stay up til like 5 or 6am playing DOS games like Ultima and shit.

Staying up the ENTIRE night and beating Metroid Fusion in one sitting during the Xmas Break that I got it.

and, staying up for the Chocobo Quest in FFXI even though I had to do a biology final the next day. 

Got chocobo, aced test, came home, played Phantasy Star 2 for like 12 hours, yeahhhH!

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[BigusSchmuck]

Civilization 1 for the first time. Or its more addicting younger brothers enough said.

[roflmao]

Civilization 1 for the first time.

Me too.

[VestCunt]

What the hell is MFAN?

I think my survival instincts were stronger when I was a preteen - I simply wasn't interested in staying up all night. Or maybe my parents and friends' parents supervised us too well. Or maybe 8-bit games weren't immersive enough to suck me into another dimension for six hours. I don't know. I remember pushing 1AM with Super Mario Brothers, Zelda 2, Major League Baseball, Castlevania, Shadowgate, and RC Pro Am.

Castlevania was played at a sleepover in my friend's foldout camper in his driveway. We alternated lives. He would play for thirty minutes before dying because he owned the game. I would play for two minutes before dying. It sucked. At midnight or 1AM he turned off the NES to watch Cheers. I got crabby and went to sleep.

Late night RC Pro Am and Shadowgate were played at a friend's birthday party in the country. He was a farm boy and worked so hard that he barely ever got to have friends over. Something was wrong with his toilet that night and I was scared it would overflow every time I went to the bathroom. Everyone went to bed in the wee hours, but it was so dark and strange not hearing any traffic that I never fell asleep.

My first proper all-nighter with Sim Earth on a friend's monochrone Mac. Then was a friend's birthday who had just received a SNES for Christmas. We played Sim City all night. The next morning I ate unsweeted puffed rice cereal that my parents packed for me because they were weirdos while everyone else ate Captain Crunch. We watched that TV video game show where kids ran around an obstacle course and won NES games by sticking them on a Velcro suit. On the show I saw a Neo Geo for the first time.

When Super Mario Kart and SF2 were released the next year, all-nighters became par for the course at sleepovers. I would regularly go to sleep the next morning with bloodshot eyes and Mode-7 images of Mario Kart swimming across my eyelids.

Still, all-nighters remained a friends-only activity until my family got Civilization on our Mac Performa in '94 or so.

[CGQuarterly]

MFAN = Mother fuckin' all-nighter?

I've only stayed up all night dicking around maybe three times.  The first time, I believe it was the summer between 5th and 6th grade.  I spent the night at my friend George's house.  We just wanted to stay up all night just to see if we could actually do it.  I don't remember us playing video games.  Just board games.  We were trying to be quiet, but his mom knew that we stayed up.  So she told my step-mom, who was furious with me because she was and still is a cunt.  So she made me go apologize to George's mom.

The second time I stayed up all night I was in high school, and I was by myself.  Again, it was summer, and I spent the whole night fucking around on my 386, dialing into local BBSes, downloading game demos, playing TradeWars, chatting, etc.  This was before the internet existed as we know it.

The third time was also in high school, during my senior year.  On the night of January 28th, 1995 (a Saturday night) I spent the night at my friend Rob's house.  We stayed up all night playing computer games (Space Hulk and the incredible Star Control II).  I remember the exact date because I am a huge San Francisco 49ers fan, and they were playing in the Super Bowl the next day.  So I go home Sunday morning and tell my mom (who is much cooler than my evil stepmother, and who is also a 49er fan) that I stayed up all night, and that I'm going to take a nap, but to please wake me up in time for the game.  She doesn't, and I wake up just in time for the postgame show to start.  WTF.

Although I've stayed up until 3-4 AM since them (especially in college), I have never stayed up long enough to watch the sun come up since that last time in high school.

Chris

[Arkhan Asylum]

It says what MFAN is in the thread title, lol

[turboswimbz]

let's see all nighters... never for video games, I was sure when I hit reply there must have been 1 night, but I think I always went to bed in the wee hours.  There were a few times In college I did actual all nighters ummmmm studying anatomy. errr hmm.  one of which did involved mindless games of mario kart wii and super mario wii till 2:30am, and a jug of wine.

[esteban]

The next morning I ate unsweeted puffed rice cereal that my parents packed for me because they were weirdos while everyone else ate Captain Crunch. We watched that TV video game show where kids ran around an obstacle course and won NES games by sticking them on a Velcro suit. On the show I saw a Neo Geo for the first time.

Funhouse with your host, J.D. Roth? I remember watching that show, even though it sucked. I guess nothing else was on during that time slot?

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.



MFAN (Turbo edition!): It must have been Dungeon Explorer. 1989. Winter. At some point (2:00 AM?), I suddenly feel RAVENOUS.

I RE-HEAT PIZZA IN TOASTER OVEN. Greasy fingers. Gulped down the slice, crispy crust and all, washed my hands, and resumed playing. I DIDN'T WANT GREASY CONTROLLERS. I still use those pads, and they are still CLEAN (no coagulated grease chunks on that beauty!)

I still love every single goddamn tune from Dungeon Explorer.

[lord_cack]

I have a few all-nighter memories: Dragon Warrior, Super Mario World, Final Fantasy (1,2,3,7....pick one hehe), Ys I&II, Gate of Thunder, Street Fighter II, tons of games spanning from the mid 80's to the late 90's.

But, nothing compares to my friends and I when Everquest came out. When you string all-nighters into a week.... thats a whole different level of sleep deprevation and insanity.

[Tatsujin]

I don't exactly remember MFAN

I remember standing up in the night and playing some hidden battle zone, pheonix or lol position on the VCS.
When I got my C-128, I was playing all nights in my room. headphones ma fren. only the clicking of my quickjoy II or what ever it was at that time, was a little bit noisy, so could wake up my lil sister sister in the room next to mine. so had to be careful with that joy, gene.

I also remember playing the lynx for hours in my bed, when I had to sleep for the next days school. I played blue lighting the most, since that game was so ace in the darkness playing it under the blanket. felt like a real pilot..lol.

in beginning of the 90s we also had our first multiple participant allnight (or until pass away) game nights, with PCE (bomberman), MD, SFC and all kind of stuff.

Bomberman was so awesome at that time. sure still it is today.

[Obfuscate]

I also remember playing the lynx for hours in my bed, when I had to sleep for the next days school. I played blue lighting the most, since that game was so ace in the darkness playing it under the blanket. felt like a real pilot..lol.

Funny, I use to do that with Stun Runner on my Lynx

[DejahThoris]

My first all-nighter was with Worms 2.  Went to a friend's house that I'd never been to before and he had a bunch of PC games, something that I hadn't really gotten to experience as our computer was still running MS-DOS at the time (Monster Bash and Rise of the Triad were my LIFE!).  Later that year our family got a new computer and I got to enjoy Diablo, Grim Fandango, and tons of others but I digress.  We spent the whole night up, mostly playing Worms 2 against one another, his mother even joined in late at night for a few matches.  I also learned of Final Fantasy 6 and E.V.O. Search for Eden that night.  Turned out to be a pretty great friendship for the longest time.

[420GOAT]

i think it was night driver on atari till 3 am or so...that was like 81/82 the before my chick was born!!

[Marll]

I DIDN'T WANT GREASY CONTROLLERS. I still use those pads, and they are still CLEAN (no coagulated grease chunks on that beauty!)

I still love every single goddamn tune from Dungeon Explorer.

This^^ I still use my original system, turbo tap and controllers and they are very clean and have surprisingly little wear.

I still love pretty much very tune in DE as well. Turbo did have some really awesome music on both chip and CD.

[VestCunt]

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.

Haha. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.

[CGQuarterly]

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.

Haha. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.

My parents used to go on these stupid diets, and because of them, they used sweet & low instead of sugar, and would only buy me corn flakes.  So every morning I ate corn flakes sweetened with sweet & low.  Gross.

Chris

[motdelbourt]

As far as Turbo stuff I have no idea. Maybe Dungeon Master or DEII or something.

More likely Final Fantasy VIII, staying up and breaking the leveling system. That and Alundra.

[soop]

I don't remember MFAN, but there were some memorable ones.

the time my friend had a PS3 (when they were new) and I turned up for like a week solid to play Metal Gear 2, and the time he went to bed at 3am, and I just sat there playing Grand Theft Auto straight through from about 11pm to 12 the next day, didn't even get up to pee.  I only knew it was morning when he got up to go to work, and I realised the sun was up outside.

The Laser Quest (like laser tag) all nighter - I used to hang around there with my friends pretty much daily, and the first all nighter started the very night I got back from holiday in Portugal, straight from the airport.  All the Arcade machines were set to free play (Xexex, some Neo Geo fighter, some other stuff), and we were playing variations on standard like Royal Rumble and AVP in the arena etc.  It was pretty loopy.

And then (soppy story) I remember me and one of my girlfriends just went for a walk one night, and just kept walking around the city getting into conversations and doing stuff until the sun came up.

[bob]

My first was Simons Quest on NES when I was in grade school and it was a big deal because it was a school night. Felt so rebel when you're 13.
My first turbo all nighter was Prince of Persia a few years later during winter vacation. Once it was done it was immediately followed but cosmic fantasy 2 during that same winter break. A friend and I tag teamed it and got no sleep for two days. And I don't mean "tag teamed" in THAT way. The disc hole is way too small.

[BigusSchmuck]

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.

Haha. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.

My parents used to go on these stupid diets, and because of them, they used sweet & low instead of sugar, and would only buy me corn flakes.  So every morning I ate corn flakes sweetened with sweet & low.  Gross.

Chris

Can't be any worse than fat free ice cream with splenda and raisins.

[LostFlunky]

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.

Haha. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.

My parents used to go on these stupid diets, and because of them, they used sweet & low instead of sugar, and would only buy me corn flakes.  So every morning I ate corn flakes sweetened with sweet & low.  Gross.

Chris

Can't be any worse than fat free ice cream with splenda and raisins.

My parents went on a carob kick... substituting carob substances for chocolate.  The horror....  The horror...

[Arkhan Asylum]

My parents bought all kinds of cereal.


I am partial to raisin bran, lucky charms and honey bunches of oats.


That puffed rice shit I used to just pour sugar all over it and then stick my face in it.  The rice stuck to my face and made me laugh.

[PikachuWarrior]

Most fondest would probably be playing Sega Dreamcast online with Phantasy Star Online. Such great times.

Other ones would be waking up early to play Xenogears on the kitchen tv (didn't have one at the time, in my room).

[esteban]

I DIDN'T WANT GREASY CONTROLLERS. I still use those pads, and they are still CLEAN (no coagulated grease chunks on that beauty!)

I still love every single goddamn tune from Dungeon Explorer.

This^^ I still use my original system, turbo tap and controllers and they are very clean and have surprisingly little wear.

I still love pretty much very tune in DE as well. Turbo did have some really awesome music on both chip and CD.

Word up .

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.

Haha. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.

I remember trying to sprinkle sugar on these cereals, BUT IT TOTALLY DIDN'T WORK. It was nasty. So I would forego the sugar (sickly sweet milk is a poor substitute for sugary-glazed crunchy love).

My parents bought all kinds of cereal.

I am partial to raisin bran, lucky charms and honey bunches of oats.

That puffed rice shit I used to just pour sugar all over it and then stick my face in it.  The rice stuck to my face and made me laugh.

See prior comment --for me, it tasted better without the sugar. Hell, I'd add strawberries/blueberries or raisins before sprinkling sugar. OF COURSE I FANTASIZED ABOUT CAP'N'CRUNCH (still my favorite sugar-death cereal) as I ate my puffed rice with bananas.

BANANAS + NO FRILLS CEREAL = BLISS (for real). I still love it.



THE LAST ALL-NIGHTER I REMEMBER: Two (?) years ago, in the summer, I was obsessed with re-visiting Faxanadu (NES) and played until dawn's morning light.

I love Faxanadu. Sure, it is flawed. But it still kicks butt.

[VestCunt]

I DIDN'T WANT GREASY CONTROLLERS. I still use those pads, and they are still CLEAN (no coagulated grease chunks on that beauty!)

I still love every single goddamn tune from Dungeon Explorer.

This^^ I still use my original system, turbo tap and controllers and they are very clean and have surprisingly little wear.

I still love pretty much very tune in DE as well. Turbo did have some really awesome music on both chip and CD.

Word up .

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.

Haha. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.

I remember trying to sprinkle sugar on these cereals, BUT IT TOTALLY DIDN'T WORK. It was nasty. So I would forego the sugar (sickly sweet milk is a poor substitute for sugary-glazed crunchy love).

You were lucky. I didn't even have sugar in the house and we usually ate hot whole grains for cereal (oats or buckwheat). On the rare occasions we had cold cereal, my sweetener was maple syrup and it just sunk to the bottom the bowl and then I'd have to eat gooey syrup after finishing my barely-sweetened cereal. And I never had normal milk. It was always homemade "nut milk" from boiled almonds still warm and frothy from the blender. Or maybe "Better Than Milk" soy mix crap or, if we were really lucky, maybe goat's milk or some lactaid bullshit. Not that I'm a big advocate of sugar and indigestible cow juice for breakfast, but as a kid it really sucked to enjoy the real thing at friends' houses, but never at home.

[Sadler]

I think Fester's Quest at a sleep over in elementary school might have been my first all nighter. Even then I crashed well before sunrise. It wasn't until my late teens/early 20's that I stayed up til dawn. THPS was responsible for that.

[Bernie]

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My parents bought all kinds of cereal.


I am partial to raisin bran, lucky charms and honey bunches of oats.


That puffed rice shit I used to just pour sugar all over it and then stick my face in it.  The rice stuck to my face and made me laugh.

This had me laughing my ass off!  Im at work and just busted out laughing.   My coworkers were like, wth Bernie.  So I read it to them.  Now they're all laughing too.  Lol

[esteban]

I DIDN'T WANT GREASY CONTROLLERS. I still use those pads, and they are still CLEAN (no coagulated grease chunks on that beauty!)

I still love every single goddamn tune from Dungeon Explorer.

This^^ I still use my original system, turbo tap and controllers and they are very clean and have surprisingly little wear.

I still love pretty much very tune in DE as well. Turbo did have some really awesome music on both chip and CD.

Word up .

UNSWEETENED CEREAL was my childhood. Wheat puffs, sans sugar. Toasted Oats. Crisp Rice. No frills.

Haha. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.

I remember trying to sprinkle sugar on these cereals, BUT IT TOTALLY DIDN'T WORK. It was nasty. So I would forego the sugar (sickly sweet milk is a poor substitute for sugary-glazed crunchy love).

You were lucky. I didn't even have sugar in the house and we usually ate hot whole grains for cereal (oats or buckwheat). On the rare occasions we had cold cereal, my sweetener was maple syrup and it just sunk to the bottom the bowl and then I'd have to eat gooey syrup after finishing my barely-sweetened cereal. And I never had normal milk. It was always homemade "nut milk" from boiled almonds still warm and frothy from the blender. Or maybe "Better Than Milk" soy mix crap or, if we were really lucky, maybe goat's milk or some lactaid bullshit. Not that I'm a big advocate of sugar and indigestible cow juice for breakfast, but as a kid it really sucked to enjoy the real thing at friends' houses, but never at home.

HOLLER IF YOU ONLY HAD NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER IN THE HOUSE! Never, ever, ever would I have access to sugar-death delights such as Skippy. I wanted the junky-crap peanut butter so badly, but my parents would never relent.

The funny thing is that I actually don't mind healthy food. I just wanted to have a LITTLE bit of junk. I'd still eat my corn flakes with bananas. I loved that. But I wouldn't mind an occasional CAP-N-CRUNCH, oh, Sweet Lords of Sucrose!

A little bit of Skippy (or Jif) would have been nice, goddammit.

Oh, before I forget, my mom would make GROATS all the time. Syrup (or fruit) was allowed as a sweetener. PRETTY FRIGGIN' AWESOME, as far as I'm concerned. I like peasant food, I guess.

[esteban]

I think Fester's Quest at a sleep over in elementary school might have been my first all nighter. Even then I crashed well before sunrise. It wasn't until my late teens/early 20's that I stayed up til dawn. THPS was responsible for that.

Hahha... I had forgotten all about Fester's Quest... what a great game!  A buddy of mine and I pulled an all nighter or two on that one and Dragon Warrior.  I always hated that he would mute the TV and play C&C Music Factory and other token audio cassettes from that era.

As for TG16 titles, Ys and Cosmic Fantasy II resulted in the most all nighters for me. 

But my first all nighters were due to my family's beloved Commodore 64.  I was only like 5 at the time so I don't recall for sure if the first one was playing Gateway to Apshai or faithfully typing in thousands of lines of MLX from Compute Gazette magazines and hoping that the end result would compile and turn the effort into a new game.

Ha! C&C Music Factory. Good times.

I think I mentioned this earlier, but some games, like Mario Kart (SNES), could not be tolerated unless we had our own music playing. Record, CD, cassette. At one point I even had an 8-track player that worked (but it was noisy, mechanical noise, and the best I could do was muffle the sound with a pillow).

[VenomMacbeth]

I think either Super Mario 64 or Star Fox 64 were the first games I ever stayed up all night beating when I was young, at my cousin's house in Ohio.  I remember how satisfying it was beating those games for the first time.

[MrFulci]

An old post, but I saw it, so resurfacing it, since it's a good subject I missed during my time away from PCEFX;

I had an OK time with certain games late at night, when younger. if I stayed over, or vice-versa. As long as everything was civil, no too loud, not much fuck was given, since it was a Friday night or similar. Either side, never had super strict parents with sleep during such get togethers, however some people had game systems, in the, "Family room", near a parent's bedroom, so that would get out of the question after a certain hour, instead of in a, "TV-Room", "Study", "Their own room", or, "Basement"

I lost my first post, timed out. Retyping as I recall!

First all nighter, with a console game, 8 Eyes, on the NES. I played the 1st player guy, the other guy played player 2, the bird. Which is needed at times, to fly through walls. It was already late, but, we figured, "LET'S PLAY 8 EYES!". We did, sometime alter, we beat it, then turned on Comedy Central or something not memorable at 5am or so, and slept on the floor or something.

This was early 90s, when CC was still fresh.

The TV, was a floor model, wood cased, CRT, 27 inch or so, where the VCR, NES, Cable box, etc was all stacked on top.

Food, Microwaveable stuff prepared earlier - Popcorn, Elios pizza, Bagel Pizza, etc. When it go TOO late, Goldfish crackers, Chex Mix, whatever was in a bag/box, along with water, and whatever was in pitchers in the fridge or cans, or powdered mix.

After that, we did not touch 8 eyes again. We beat it. We later moved into, years later, PC game all nighters, with DOOM, Blood, modem to modem. We would stop when the un started to rise, on the weekends.

Good times, never to repeat. At least, not repeat, quite the same way!

[jordan_hillman]

I can't remember exactly the first MFAN I ever had, but I'm about 99.9% sure it involved:

(1) Copious amounts of Surge (this was the late 1990s, and I was in late elementary/junior high)

(2) Approximately a metric fuck-ton of pepperoni pizza (most likely from Dalia's Pizza)

(3) A recorded VHS of that week's Monday Night Raw and Nitro (once again, this was the late 1990s)

(4) My best buddy at the time, CJ, and

(5) Most importantly, Super Mario World, TMNT IV, Scooby-Doo, and Super Double Dragon for the SNES. I had an N64, and my buddy had a PS1, but SNES was the system we had in common so that was the system we played the most together back then.


Now my all nighters (which are about twice a year, tops) include me, a TG16 w/CD, and typically Double Dragon II and Devil's Crush.

[Nec.Game.head]

My first all nighter was at age 12 in September of 1992 the game I played all night was Mortal Kombat for the Sega Genesis with my older brother Luis. He had bought the game to play it at his girlfriends house and one night he brought it home randomly to have me play it with him. I had a Game Pro magazine that had the fatality's blood code. It was really fun playing it at first but after beating his ass at it multiple times he got pissed off and would not let me stop playing him until he honestly defeated him. We played from 11pm to around 5am the following day. This may I ad was on a school night to top it off, as tired as I was he would bully me and threaten to never bring the game home again if I didn't keep playing him. A memory to this day that I bring up to him during family gatherings. Lol I love my brother as he was always into hardcore gaming when I was a kid but unfortunately he was an even bigger dickhead that would always have the last say in any matter while gaming. I can honestly sit back laugh and smile typing up this old memory as it was truly an epic all nighter being able to play the controversial Mortal Kombat with my brother Luis !!