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Fans of Brutal Legend gathered in England over the weekend to rock out with EA, shattering the world record for the most people simultaneously performing air guitar. Such is the power of the gamer.
With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters’ Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they’ve got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it.
Continuing in it’s tradition of listing bizarre video game world record breakers, Guinness today announced the game with the most swearing in it.
Super Mario Kart has the longest legacy and the biggest impact on video games in history, according to Guinness World Records which compiled a list of the top 50 consoles of all time.
Actually, there may have been several unofficial records set at the Games Convention – most teutonic booth babes, most embarrassing erection at a major trade show, etc.
The actual Guinness Book Of Records people were on hand, though, to promote the Guinness World Records videogame and to oversee record attempts at three of the included minigames.
Its a bit of an odd duck, the GWR game – yes, you can technically break the world record in one or more of the mini challenges (and have these uploaded to the Guinness site), but it is no more or less (actually, it probably is a bit less) impressive than getting the best possible score in any other, actually popular, game.
So, tiny golf clap applause please for Max Schoenemann (virtual Sheep shearing – 5 sheep in just 13.71 seconds!), Florian Mack (Smashing melons with head – 60 in a minute) and Christian Kurka (100 balloons popped in 10.48 seconds).
Well done you.
No, I’m not talking about the Guinness World Records Gamer Edition. This is Guinness World Records: The Videogame, a new title from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games for the Wii and DS. The game will allow players to experience breaking a world records via “quick-fire action challenges” (mini-games), from tightrope walking across the Grand Canyon to growing the world’s longest, most disgusting fingernails. Ew.
“We are very pleased with how Guinness World Records: The Videogame looks and plays, this new development reflects the versatility of our content and how it can be tailored for almost any medium and format,” said Sam Fay, Senior Vice President of Guinness World Records. “We are sure that the game is going to be a favourite amongst all aspiring record breakers!”
Players who achieve the highest scores could even see their name appear in the official Guinness World Records book, a dream I had as a child that has since been replaced with the desperate need to avoid shitty licenced mini-games quick-fire action challenges. Guinness World Records is slated for a spring release.
Ah, the Guinness Book of World Records. In the 1980s game craze, I remember they started accepting video game submissions, so I rolled the score on Defender on the Atari 2600 (1 million points), snapped a photo and sent it in, either to Guinness or somewhere else. No one called, no one wrote. Glory delayed is glory denied.
Perhaps no longer. You can grab an official record this coming Thursday if you live in, or can get to, Brooklyn, N.Y. — and have mad skills in one of five classic arcade games. Guinness World Records is hosting a competition to coincide with the release of its inagural Gamers’ Edition.
We told you about the new Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2008 a few months back, but now the book has its own site that provides the opportunity to flip through some of the content (straight passed the horrid cover). Granted, it’s been about 18 years at least since I’ve paged through a Guinness book, but it’s far from what I remember (lots of tables of stats with only a few pictures). Now the layout resembles a magazine more than anything—which may be a cover for meaningful content as much as it is eye-appealing.
In addition, gamers can now register with evidence of their own records and apply to be part of Guinness’ effort to set a world record in Guitar Hero III (pending they live in London, NY, Sydney, Toronto, LA or Paris). Playing a little GHIII sure beats the hell out of eating a Cessna airplane (or at least passing the thing out after).
Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition [via sidebar]
