Marathon gaming sessions happen all the time, but when I'm wasting a Saturday exobyte farming in DC Universe Online or hunting a Platinum Trophy on the PS3, I'm aware that the hours are slipping by. Last week, Maxis invited me over to play SimCity, and when I started getting texts about dinner, I thought it was a bit early for my girlfriend to be debating tacos over Chinese. Then, I noticed the time.
I had been playing SimCity for six hours straight.
On the SimCity excitement scale, I'm some cliché that puts me past 10. I even bought a gaming PC in anticipation of its March 5th release. But that said, as Maxis put me in front of a computer and began droning on and on about traffic patterns, solid waste removal and the intricacies of SimCity, I suddenly panicked that I was in over my head. Perhaps SimCity had grown up too much and was now out of my reach.
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