We were always under the impression that The Guinness World Records only included listings of things that could be measured by quantity — most number of X, tallest Y, shortest Z, tiniest bean, etc. As it turns out, our impression is wrong and there is room for opinion in the book of World Records.
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember being awed at when the TV specials based on the Guinness Book of World Records would show up on network TV. I’d see really big things! Really small things! Weird life forms out of 1950s monster comics! A guy who’d never cut his fingernails, like, ever!
While no character in Bulletstorm has the name, the game’s script does seem overly concerned with the activities of someone named “Dick”. Here’s a compilation – by no means exhaustive – of two-dozen references to aforesaid Mr. Richard, within the span of a minute.
Yesterday Guinness awarded Jesse Moerkerk of Dutch gaming magazine N-Gamer a world record certificate for playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 for 18.52 minutes. Oh, and he did it while freefalling.
A new game releases and the Guinness Book of World Records is there, awarding the world record for longest winning streak on Tekken 6 to Mr. Eliot Smith-Walters, aka Shadow Force.
Even before the latest Pocket Monsters movie opened in Japan, it was already a hit — so much so that the anime has earned a place in the Guinness Book.