The longest ladder in a video game? lets find out once and for all!

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I remember playing tmnt on my NES and this one level where you take this elevator to to the top of a building all the while baddies are raining from the sky...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh_52Y9_JWQ

possibly not a contender but it beats some of the suggestions i think...

 

[Trig0n]

I reckon 'The Fall' from Portal 2 is one of the longest free-fall descents in a game I've ever seen. It's so long it gives GlaDOS enough time to rant at you for like a minute and a half!

This is true. To put it to scale a fall from the top of the Grand Canyon to the bottom takes about 15 seconds. Meaning that's a pretty long fall.

Numbers for you:

Assuming her terminal velocity is 201 kph (55.88 m/s)(highest TV for an outstreched human), she will hit it 5.69 seconds in, at about the 159 meter mark. That means that she has about 85 seconds of free fall at terminal velocity, or about 4511.1 meters. That means that the fall is about 4870 meters, or about 15973.6 feet or about 3 miles.

Yeah, it's a long fall.

Well those are certainly impressive boots then.