Back when saves didn't exist, and few games had passwords I would commonly leave my NES on got a week at a time.

In terms of longest period of time actively playing one game without break, probably Civilization 3 for the PC. For consoles I think the honour probably goes to Super Mario RPG for the SNES.

Either the Vectrex or the NES. I played the Vectrex initially in 1983, and had a decent amount of fun with it but it wasn't a huge passion. It laid the foundation for a lasting interest in gaming but it was probably the NES that firmly solidified that interest when I first played it in 86'.

The Vectrex game that left the most lasting impression would definitely be Scramble, I still go back and play it occasionally. Remarkable that a game first relased 27yrs ago can still be a great deal of fun. For all the time that's passed it still holds up relative to modern games.

The NES.... I was addicted to gaming in my childhood, so I can name countless memorable NES games. Like most, my first game with Super Mario Bros. however and it's lasting impact on gaming is obviously monumental.

In hindsight the peak of my interest in gaming was probably 88'-95', nicely bridging the time of the Original GameBoy/NES/SNES.

Cube's are running around $25-30 in Ontario, Canada right now in most stores around here. As long as there are still a handful of people out there that have unused Cube's and are willing to sell them to stores for a few dollars there is probably still room for another $5 drop or so.... I doubt it'll happen though, if a $25 price isn't sufficient enough to convince someone to buy, would $20 really make any difference?

Hard to argue with the price, even if you despised the Cube there is almost certainly goinng to be enough quality games you enjoy to easily more then justify the cost of a used console.