Sega kiddy arcade game MUSHIKING: King of the Beetles has entered the record books! The Guinness World Records awarded it a certificate for:
The arcade game for which the most official tournaments have been held is SEGA’s Mushiking: King of the Beetles, with 100.297 officially-sanctioned competitions held between May 2003 and November 2007.
No wonder those dudes are so happy! If you had threads like that, you’d be thrilled. Sega Gets Record [GPara via Sega Nerds] More »
Mushiking’s a big hit in Japan. How big? Kids don’t just want to collect digital bugs, they want real bugs. Even ones that don’t live in Japan, and cost a tonne of money to import. And it’s driving one species to the brink of extinction. A rare stag beetle, which is only found in Turkey’s Amanos Mountains, is being picked clean by “bounty hunters”, keen to snatch up the bugs and sell them in Japan for as much as Â¥40,000 (USD$350). Crazy. Course, collecting bugs and pitting them against each other is nothing new to Japanese kids (the game is, after all, cashing in on the pastime), but Mushiking has really spurred on the hobby. Welcome to 2007, kids. Video game puts bounty hunters on the trail that could wipe out the stag beetle [The Times] More »
