{"id":102941,"date":"2025-11-12T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102941"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:06:00","slug":"man-dances-for-144-hours-to-break-video-game-marathon-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102941","title":{"rendered":"Man dances for 144 hours to break video game marathon record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Hungarian man has set a new record for the longest video game marathon by playing the rhythm-based music game Dance Dance Revolution for six days.<\/p>\n

Szabolcs Cs\u00e9pe, from Budapest, bopped to over 3000 songs and burned more than 22,000 calories in his quest to romp into the record books.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old, known as GrassHopper on his gaming channels, said that preparation for the marathon took six months and included physical training, focusing on his \u201clegs and glutes\u201d, as well a a diet plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying DDR is always fun for me,\u201d he told BBC News, \u201cso this challenge was best described as tediously joyful\u201d.<\/p>\n

His feat has been\u00a0officially recognised\u00a0by Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n

Dance Dance Revolution is a Japanese video game series which was first released to arcades in 1998.<\/p>\n

Players stand on a dance platform or mat and hit coloured arrows with their feet, to score points in time with visual cues and the music from a catalogue of songs.<\/p>\n

The series has spawned dozens of spin-offs in arcades and many more across home consoles.<\/p>\n

The games have also become popular as a way to keep fit, featuring in UK and US school exercise programmes.<\/p>\n

In 2004 the series was even recognised as an official sporting event in Norway.<\/p>\n

More recently the game has grown in popularity in the esports community, with players across the world competing in official and fan-run tournaments.<\/p>\n

Dance Dance Revolution started life as an arcade game in 1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr Cs\u00e9pe said he was inspired to try the challenge after watching the attempt of previous holder Carrie Swidecki, from the US, who spent a little over 138 hours playing Just Dance in 2015.<\/p>\n

But the avid gamer, who works in IT engineering, had already broken several records before attempting this dancing feat.<\/p>\n

In 2021, he achieved the longest video game marathon playing a Naruto game (28 hr 11 min 32 sec playing Narutimetto Akuseru 2) and the longest video game marathon playing a puzzle game (32 hr 32 min 32 sec playing Tetris Effect).<\/p>\n

And in 2023, a 90-hour gaming session on Gran Turismo 7 earned him three more endurance-testing accolades, including the longest video game marathon playing a racing simulator game.<\/p>\n

Mr Cs\u00e9pe, who earned the nickname GrassHopper as a child because he was \u201calways jumping around\u201d, told the BBC he had been playing Dance Dance Revolution for almost 20 years, but the marathon was far from a dance in the park.<\/p>\n

Mr Cs\u00e9pe said he was allowed to have breaks \u201cthrough well-earned rest times\u201d, with one hour of dancing earning him a ten-minute break, which could be accumulated to allow him to sleep for an hour or two.<\/p>\n

Despite the immense effort, the world record holder added that if the record got beaten in the future, he would \u201ccertainly return\u201d to defend his dancing crown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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