History Main / JustOneMoreLevel

* Summed up neatly in ''[[https://www.collectedcurios.com/howtoplay.html How To Play]] VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' by the gentleman who brought us ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''. Also given a nod in the last panel of ''How to Play VideoGame/TeamFortress2,'' where the titular game ultimately takes its toll on the player's sleep cycle, dietary intake, and various unsavory bodily functions.

* One case for ''ComicBook/DrBlinkSuperheroShrink'' has him visiting the home of a woman whose son refuses to leave his room because he's addicted to his super-hero {{MMORPG}}. As Blink discusses the pros and cons of gaming, she reveals that the gamer is [[AdamWesting the super-hero Black Ice.]]

* In Music/MitchBenn's song "I Don't Wanna Play ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft", this is exactly why he doesn't even start:

* In ''Music/MitchBenn's song "I Don't Wanna Play ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft", this is exactly why he doesn't even start:

* A loading screen tip in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate II'' reminds the player that they need to eat once in a while:

* There is an upgrade in ''VideoGame/CookieClicker'' with FlavorText that outright asks "You've been up all night, haven't you?", unlocked by clicking on [[LuckySeven 77 golden cookies]], which are on a (slightly variable) timer. A simultaneously unlocked achievement says "You should really go to bed". The minimum time between golden cookies is five minutes without spawn-rate upgrades, which are mercifully unlocked at 7 and 27 cookies, otherwise getting to that number would take over six hours even with the best of luck.
* The developer of ''VideoGame/DesktopTowerDefense'' has admitted to ''tweaking the game to encourage more play''. He regularly gets emails from people asking to "please ban me from the game, I can't stop playing".
* ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' displays messages to the user reminding them to take a break. Unlike some of the other examples listed, these are based on the system's internal clock instead of play duration.
* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'', where it asks if you try to quit: "Just one more game wouldn't hurt, would it?" while playing a parody of ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'''s voice clip:
--> "Please don't go! The [[MascotMook Diggles]] need you! They look up to you!"

* The Korean region client of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has warnings telling players how long they've been playing. "You have been playing for 4 hours.", etc. For players outside of Korea, one can witness this by watching the livestream of a Korean professional League of Legends player.

* The confirmation prompt for exiting ''VideoGame/AValleyWithoutWind'' has buttons labeled "No" and "Yeah, I should probably eat or sleep or something."

* In the {{pilot}} episode of ''WebAnimation/GEOWeasel'', Nar is addicted to video games, going to a handheld game when the power goes out and eventually going out in severe weather to get batteries.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Bobwhite}}'', Marlene receives a video game as a present from Cleo. She doesn't even like video games, [[http://www.bobwhitecomics.com/?webcomic_post=20091230 but she decides to try it out for five minutes.]] 72 hours later, she's completed the game, and she vows to get her revenge by giving Cleo the complete filmography of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, hoping to induce Cleo to go on an ArchiveBinge.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' when Lucas initially refuses to let Ethan play ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'' because of his addiction to the first ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' that nearly destroyed his life: he dropped out of high school, stopped getting up from his computer desk to sleep, stopped doing anything that took longer than the 5 minutes it took his character's mana to regenerate, including bathing and eating anything other than instant pasta and pudding, sold everything he didn't need to pay for his subscription and at one point tried to sell Lucas, and went into fits of UnstoppableRage every time his character died because of the ensuing experience penalty.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace gets addicted to ''Videogame/BlackAndWhite'' and has to be [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=46 dragged away from the computer.]]
* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190623050818/http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=128 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/{{Fanboys}}'' shows this effect when Sylvia plays ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games for the first time.

* When Tentajo is arrested by Morgan for excessive fanservice in ''Webcomic/NerfNow'', his CoolAndUnusualPunishment is he has to be imprisoned for a year with a computer with no internet connection and only non-perverted games like ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}''. When they tell him he's free to go after his year is up, he asks for one more turn.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Arthur becomes addicted to a game on his mother's computer. When he shows his mother how to play the game, she becomes addicted too and stays up all night trying to finish it.

* During an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'', Brandy tried to keep Mr. Whiskers from pestering her by giving him a handheld game to keep his mind busy. He got so into it, that he was even worse than before.

* This happened to Hank in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when he plays a [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 GTA-esque]] game called "Pro-Pain". It's actually based on his life, having been made by a couple of nerds.
* A similar thing happened in the ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' episode "A Boy's Game", with Og getting addicted to a BambooTechnology UsefulNotes/GameBoy that he made himself, even so far as to keep playing it even while a ''hurricane'' was destroying the island.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Arcade Mania", Steven introduces Garnet to a rhythm game. She quickly becomes so hooked that she stops being aware of anything else in the world, to the point that the only way to break her trance is by destroying the game.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015'' episode "Defrosted" has Fixit become addicted to playing one of Russell's handheld games, which distracts him from his MissionControl duties and eventually ends with him screaming a BigNo after the Bee Team's return from their mission breaks the game.

* Having never picked up a video game before, the dad in ''Film/TheWizard'' gets this in a bad way. He even gets distracted from searching for his sons by compulsively trying to beat ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1989 TMNT]]'' and ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''.

* The fictional video game ''Mastery'' from ''Literature/TheOverstory'' apparently makes people react this way.

* Chandler in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' spends an episode addicted to Ms. Pacman, to the point where he can no longer move his hand.
* Gordo from ''Series/{{Lizzie McGuire}}'' becomes addicted to Dwarflord, a BlandNameProduct fantasy game with, from what we see, elements of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' and {{TabletopGame/Warhammer}}, causing his friends to administer [[ColdBloodedTorture amateur therapy]] on him to cure him.
** It's also apparently a case of ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin, as Gordo looks absolutely ''exhausted'' due to not having eaten or slept for days because he's too busy playing Dwarflord, and when Lizzie and Miranda ask if he's feeling okay, he angrily brushes them off, too busy looking for things he can sell (or steal) so he can buy more Dwarflord cards.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has Shawn's father discovering ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}''. Cue them returning the next day or so, and the father hasn't slept and has to be prompted to stop, and even threatens Shawn when he tries to take the console away.
-->'''Shawn's Dad:''' ...it lets you feel like a cop, without all the guilt after you shoot someone.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Penny gets addicted to ''VideoGame/AgeOfConan''. At one point Leonard asks why she's not at work, and she says she doesn't work on Mondays. He then points out that it's ''Thursday''. She finally says "Okay, I need to stop" when she gets hit on by [[CasanovaWannabe Howard]] in-game and actually responds positively.
* In the penultimate episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Spike leaves Illyria guarding Drogyn and offers them ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996'' to pass the time. This leads to:

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E6TheGame "The Game"]], a woman shows Riker a small video game that gives the user a direct endorphin rush when they complete a level. Riker plays it, quickly becomes addicted, and spreads it to the rest of the TNG crew.

* Dave from ''Series/NewsRadio'' retakes his [=SATs=] on a dare from Lisa, but unintentionally stays up all night before the exam playing an arcade game that was recently installed on the building (an old favourite, no less). When the results come in, he reveals he did the same thing when he originally took the tests.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] In ''VideoGame/{{Stronghold}}'': If you play for hours (or days, or weeks, or months...), the Scribe says things such as "How about a snack, sire?" "You haven't slept for days sire!" "It's getting late, sire, Aren't you tired?"

* VideoGame/TalesSeries:
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' has an Achievement that you earn by having a save file over 100+ hours long.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'': There are three titles you get from your overall playtime. One notes that if the party knew how long you've been playing they'd tell you to take a break.
* Part of the {{backstory}} of strategy game ''This Means War!'' is a somewhat post-apocalyptic setting caused by a dangerously addictive videogame that players were so hooked on that they neglected their duties (for instance, maintaining nuclear power plants) to keep playing.
* The developer of ''VideoGame/DesktopTowerDefense'' has admitted to ''tweaking the game to encourage more play''. He regularly gets emails from people asking to "please ban me from the game, I can't stop playing".
* ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'' is advertised on the box as something like "all the 'just one more turn' addictiveness of a TBS like Civ, but with no turns so you never know when to stop!"

* There is a shirt on the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' Store that says "Just One More Block" four times in a row!
* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'', where it asks if you try to quit: "Just one more game wouldn't hurt, would it?" while playing a parody of ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'''s voice clip:
--> "Please don't go! The [[MascotMook Diggles]] need you! They look up to you!"
* Lampshaded and inverted on the menu screen of ''VisualNovel/AoiShiro'', where, depending on the time and day of the week your computer is set to, the character will tell you to go do your homework first, your house chores, go to school, or even to go to sleep.

* The confirmation prompt for exiting ''VideoGame/AValleyWithoutWind'' has buttons labeled "No" and "Yeah, I should probably eat or sleep or something."
* The citizens of ''Brainville'' make comments concerning the lateness of the hour and your need for sleep if you play past a certain time of night.
* The Korean region client of ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends'' has warnings telling players how long they've been playing. "You have been playing for 4 hours.", etc. For players outside of Korea, one can witness this by watching the livestream of a Korean professional League of Legends player.
* A loading screen tip in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate II'' reminds the player that they need to eat once in a while:
-->While your character does not have to eat, please remember that you do. We don't want to lose any dedicated players.
* There is an upgrade in ''Videogame/CookieClicker'' with FlavorText that outright asks "You've been up all night, haven't you?", unlocked by clicking on [[LuckySeven 77 golden cookies]], which are on a (slightly variable) timer. A simultaneously unlocked achievement says "You should really go to bed". The minimum time between golden cookies is five minutes without spawn-rate upgrades, which are mercifully unlocked at 7 and 27 cookies, otherwise getting to that number would take over six hours even with the best of luck.
* The ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' references this in ''Infiltrating the Airship''. One of the fails involves Henry checking out a computer for secrets, only to get distracted playing Civilization V. The Fail messages asks for one more turn.

* ''WebAnimation/ButtonsAdventures'': Button stays up all night playing a game, becoming partially delirious in the morning to the point of speaking in WordSalad.
* In the {{pilot}} episode of ''WebAnimation/GEOWeasel'', Nar is addicted to video games, going to a handheld game when the power goes out and eventually going out in severe weather to get batteries.

* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190623050818/http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=128 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/{{Fanboys}}'' shows this effect when Sylvia plays ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games for the first time.

* ''[[Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal SMBC Theatre]]'' gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD69PAIqiYo The MMO]]. [[http://mmo.smbc-comics.com A playable version is here.]]
** That's scarily similar to a Flash game on Kongregate called anti-idler. One of the minigames is to click a button to get rewards.
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has a [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080723 plot line]] where [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080802 "Years of Yarncraft"]] completely consumes the attention of most of the main characters for dangerously long periods, getting in the way of eating, sleeping, and other such [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080806 minor pursuits.]]
* In one year of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'''s "The Annual 'We're Right' Awards", they gave ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' the "Just One More Turn Wow Is It Really 4 AM?" Award.
** They have quite a few strips about this subject, such as the time Gabe is introduced to ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', or how he had to quit ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' because it was "a job that was fucking killing me!"
** "One win, and then bed." [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/11/18/duration Except not.]]
* Summed up neatly in ''[[https://www.collectedcurios.com/howtoplay.html How To Play]] VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' by the gentleman who brought us ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''. Also given a nod in the last panel of ''How to Play VideoGame/TeamFortress2,'' where the titular game ultimately takes its toll on the player's sleep cycle, dietary intake, and various unsavory bodily functions.

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' when Lucas initially refuses to let Ethan play ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'' because of his addiction to the first ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' that nearly destroyed his life: he dropped out of high school, stopped getting up from his computer desk to sleep, stopped doing anything that took longer than the 5 minutes it took his character's mana to regenerate, including bathing and eating anything other than instant pasta and pudding, sold everything he didn't need to pay for his subscription and at one point tried to sell Lucas, and went into fits of UnstoppableRage every time his character died because of the ensuing experience penalty.
* ''Webcomic/FlintlockesGuideToAzeroth'' has Flintlocke getting angry and depressed after realising he has been playing ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' for eight hours and then... "Eight more won't kill me."

* [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] has always said that his ''[=WTF=] Is'' series is all about first impressions. When it came to ''[=XCOM=] 2'', however, his "first impressions" for the game just so happened to be after ''72 hours and a completed campaign''.
* ''WebVideo/PlayStationAccess'' brought this up in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbZm5ATgOqw&t=475s "7 'One-More-Go' Games You Can't Stop Playing Until 4am."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Lisa Gets An 'A'", this happened to Lisa Simpson — she wasn't prepared for playing with a ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' CaptainErsatz for a whole week. She started playing when she was sick and didn't have anything else to do, but by the time she recovered she was hooked.
* This happened to Hank in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when he plays a [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 GTA-esque]] game called "Pro-Pain". It's actually based on his life, having been made by a couple of nerds.
* During an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'', Brandy tried to keep Mr. Whiskers from pestering her by giving him a handheld game to keep his mind busy. He got so into it, that he was even worse than before.
* A similar thing happened in the ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' episode "A Boy's Game", with Og getting addicted to a BambooTechnology UsefulNotes/GameBoy that he made himself, even so far as to keep playing it even while a ''hurricane'' was destroying the island.
-->'''Margery:''' Why, where ''is'' the dear boy?\\
'''Mike:''' There's his body, but good luck finding his mind.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': In "Doug's Lost Weekend", Doug wins a video game system from a store and then spends the next few days being distracted by playing ''Space Munks'' and almost missing an assignment.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Arthur becomes addicted to a game on his mother's computer. When he shows his mother how to play the game, she becomes addicted too and stays up all night trying to finish it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** Stumpy is addicted to video games despite being horrible at them. The addiction is so bad that when Kaeloo temporarily takes away his console in "Let's Play Simon Says", all he can do is crawl on the floor while weakly saying "My console..." until she gives it back.
** Kaeloo herself becomes a victim of this trope in Episode 100 after Stumpy shows her how to play one of his video games, to the extent that she plays it for ''one whole year'' without stopping.

* Summed up neatly in ''[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/HTP_011_Tetris.jpg How To Play Tetris]]'' by the gentleman who brought us ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''. Also given a nod in the last panel of ''[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/HTP_012_Team_Fortress_2.jpg How to Play Team Fortress 2,]]'' where the titular ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' ultimately takes its toll on the player's sleep cycle, dietary intake, and various unsavory bodily functions.

* {{Music/KISS}} frontman Paul Stanley got addicted to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' on the ''Hot in the Shade'' tour, as revealed in a tour video from ''Revenge''.

* Having never picked up a video game before, the dad in ''Film/TheWizard'' gets this in a bad way. He even gets distracted from searching for his sons by compulsively trying to beat ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]'' and ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''.

* WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} wins a video game system from a store and then spends the next few days playing games while not doing his homework and nearly being late for school.

->''"I started playing ''Peggle'' around noon, and emerged from my room sometime later to find that the authorities had declared me legally dead."''

** Kaeloo herself becomes a victim of this trope in [[spoiler: Episode 100]] after Stumpy shows her how to play one of his video games, to the extent that she plays it for ''one whole year'' without stopping.

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* [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=128 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/{{Fanboys}}'' shows this effect when Sylvia plays ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games for the first time.

->"I started playing ''Peggle'' around noon, and emerged from my room sometime later to find that the authorities had declared me legally dead."

* In ''Renegadepress.com'''s "Alternate Reality", Sandi’s increasing addiction to a video game causes him to blur the lines between fantasy and reality.

** In "Guitar Queer-o", Stan and Kyle become talented enough at ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' to go pro. The episode parodies rise-to-fame and musician biopic tropes, even including a BreakupBreakout. To take the edge off the sudden success, Stan becomes obsessed with a game called "Heroin Hero", in which you inject yourself with heroin and chase a cheeky dragon who can't be caught. Like real heroin, Stan starts "chasing the dragon" and becomes addicted to playing it. Kyle finds out and Stan is kicked out of the band.

%%Reworking the trope, as decided in this thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1318443011028620100