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* ''[[The Mad Scientist Wars]]'' has been going on for over a year and a half now, and has managed a huge number of pages with several highly complicated plots, and character backgrounds, and running gags... not even *counting* the Lounge (where the creators talk), The mad sci Tales (short pieces to do with MSW), and... so on. To the point where a summary has been worked on.

* Gaedhal's "Queer Theories" has been going for almost a decade now.

* ''[[Cat Tales]]'' has been updating on a chapter-a-month-or-so schedule for nine years, resulting in 60 separate stories (with almost 350 chapters, combined) and multiple (thankfully much shorter) spin-off series. Although heavily influenced by both the comics and the DCAU, it has its own cast of recurring characters and complicated storylines that require any new reader to start at the beginning before you're able to understand later stories. Thankfully, once you've read through it once, it's easy to stay updated... but oh, that one story back at the beginning was so good, maybe I'll reread it, and let's see, the next story was pretty good too...

* Arguaby, ''[[My Immortal]]''. You hear amusing lines from it. You hear about it. You want to know: "Is it really THIS stupid/silly/bad/awesome beyond compare?" So you read up on it, not wanting to receive the brain damage you've heard you'll get from reading it. Then you give up and read the whole thing out of curiosity, and bile fascination makes you read the whole thing (or you're generally amused by Enoby's adventures). So is it really as stupid/silly/bad/awesome beyond compare as everyone says? Answer: {{spoiler|Yes. A million times, YES.}}

* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri|Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri]]'' actually uses an Archive Binge in the plot. {{spoiler|One of the factions will dump the sum total of human knowledge into the brain of the Planet, in order to break a cycle that would cause human extinction.}}

* Any video game with an in-game encyclopedia can turn into an [[Archive Binge]]. Notable examples include the codex section popular in ''[[BioWare]]'' games or vast selection of in-game literature of ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series. Many a gamer has found him/herself spending several hours reading about the game world's history instead of actually playing.