Man Beats, Breaks Bejeweled 2 After 2,205 Hours
Have you put that much time into a single game before?
In modern day games, we don't get the sort of crazy records that we get from classics such as Pac-man, but last week we learned of a man who had not only broken the record for Bejeweled, but also broken the score counter itself.
According to VGChartz, Mike Leyde, a 56-year old steel contractor of Riverside California, has "beaten" Bejeweled 2 after playing the game for 2,205 hours and 51 minutes over three years. His final score: 2,147,783,647.
Brian Fiete, co-creator of Bejeweled, explained: "The highest score the game is capable of calculating is 2,147,483,647; that’s 2 to the 31st power minus 1. We had to give the game some sort of maximum displayable score, and figured that was high enough, no one would ever get that many points. 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. Well, the game’s code wasn’t designed to display a negative number so it just showed a blank where the score should be!"
Popcap has made a special fan page for Leyde to celebrate his achievement.
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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
Ahh, I love it! That's what 3 years of bored dumps will do.
Somebody needs a life...
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."
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
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.
The most I could ever get was 475,000, give or take a few hundred.
Wow... at least most old games reset back to 0
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.
Tisk, tisk, they should have used an unsigned variable.
Somebody needs a life...
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.
lol, how demoralizing would it be after all that time to see your score go backwards by 4 billion!
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.
That's pretty lazy programming for this day and age.
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.
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.
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.
No offense, but look harder. You really should not be playing games if you don't have a job... just saying.
@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
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.
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.
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?
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.
I've been playing the original puzzle quest on my phone for a couple years.. Once you 'win' you can keep playing, and eventually it will go in to 'Tutorial' mode where only you can move, but cant use spells, while the opponent doesn't have a turn.
But if you keep playing, it will eventually wrap around somewhere internally and the spells will come back, plus the opponent will start fighting again. I've got somewhere over 100k exp now (where around 15k will give you max level). Even better, because of the class I chose my Battle Mastery (green) skill keeps getting +1 with more exp, so I think I'm up around a maximum of 83 green energy currently.
It's fun :-)
Tisk, tisk, they should have used an unsigned variable.
or a 64 bit (instead of a 32 bit) integer which would leave a maximum possible score of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807...
...good luck beating that...
An unsigned integer has a max of 4,294,967,295. I give him 2 more years to break that!
An unsigned integer has a max of 4,294,967,295. I give him 2 more years to break that!
And then we can convert the value to a floating point number?
Well, I put 1,000 (+/- 50) hours into WoW, and then another 300 into private servers.
I thought I was addicted.
"Have you put that much time into a single game before?"
Ask anyone who has played WoW since 2004...
ive played WoW for over 10000 hours in 4-5 years. ive quit 6 times and have stopped playing but onto consoles now lol
darn! I have no idea what Bejeweled is, although the name looks familiar.
or a 64 bit (instead of a 32 bit) integer which would leave a maximum possible score of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807......good luck beating that...
This guy could do it. He'd just need to retire early and make this his life's work.
How did they calculate how long he had played overall?
thats just under 92 days of play time.... people do more of that in WoW...and im not talking over 3 years, im talking 1 year.
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.
You need to learn to read, look at the 5th digit. It changed from a 4 to a 7. That was the question why did this digit change? Must have been a typo imho.