180Gb keeps going from start up screen to black, over and over

I lost my used 180 GB classic for almost 6 months (turns out it was in my PJ drawer, who knew) and just now found it. I charged it for several hours and it was working great- Used it for a couple days...and then today I was playing one of the games, exited it, when to play a song, and it froze and shut off, showing me the Apple start up screen. I thought it was just randomly rebooting itself (my phone does that all the time), but instead it showed the apple screen for maybe 10 seconds, then went black, then went back to the apple screen, then black. It has literally been doing this for hours, no amount of resetting will change it- when I plug it into the computer all that happens is the backlight goes off and the apple screen just stays up. I can hear it humming and working really hard but...is there something else I can do??

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
As soon as the Apple logo appears hold down Select and Play. This should put the device in disk mode. You can then connect it to your computer and restore it.
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