Sister site Japanator recently ran the story that Project A-Kon, America's oldest anime convention, set out to break the Guinness Book of World Records record for the "Most Video Game Costumes in One Place." We knew it wouldn't be a problem, as the previous record was set by 80 British Marios. But we showed up anyway to cover the Dallas, Texas event.

While final totals aren't in yet, I think it's pretty safe to say that A-Kon 19 demolished the previous record. The forms and entries are still being tallied by officials, but it is estimated that over 600 cosplayers contributed to this new record.

When we arrived at the designated meeting place for these record breakers, queues of cosplayers were already so backed up that even the elevators had lines. Three judges, including Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, were present to oversee the procession of videogame-costumed attendees. 

The convention did not expect this big of a turnout. It was only a matter of time before fire marshalls were called in, as the meeting ballroom was well past capacity. Even then, more continued to file in. Eventually, the whole thing was moved to another room.

Check out the gallery below to see how it all went down, as well as several other cosplay pictures from A-Kon 19. The costumes ranged from incredibly sexy to terribly horrible. We were going to categorize them, but we'll let you be the judge. There are plenty of gems in the mix.

Special thanks goes out to Japanator's photograher, Chris Serani, for his outstanding work. For those interested in the rest of A-Kon 19, be sure to check out Japanator's coverage, which includes a super sexy Naruto and crotch shots!

Hit the jump for our scavenger hunt list!

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

Aerox

I bet they also broke the record for "Most people who haven't showered in over a week in one place."

Merry Ho

@Aerox
when you have that much going on and all that fun to be had, who has time so do unimportant things like shower? (I say that with all the sarcasm in the world)

bleep

Cool somebody had a home made Dtoid helmet!

Alexradl

I never really got the point of cosplay. It's so...useless (sorry, hardcore cosplalyinites).

Tom Fronczak

People cosplay as Ronald McDonald?....

bbrigg1

I want to get a bunch of people and dress up like the jocks in Revenge of the Nerds, and drive by in a school bus chanting, "NERDS NERDS NERDS"
That would make me happy.

Spitfire

I always make fun of cosplayers, but there has to be something said for people comfortable enough to dress in some ridiculous outfits. The people that do it right look freaking amazing.

One of my friends dressed as Ike from Smash. It was a well make costume, but he did wear girl's pants.

jolt

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?post_key=88797&photo_key=45464

norm9

Looks like fun.

When just one person does it, its nerdy. When its hundreds, its awesome.

Some people did not try very hard.

zeroword

Did I catch a little nipple showing there?

Drop of Flame

Look at all the sexy nerds!

TrailerParkJesus

You tricked me with that crotch shot link. Not cool

calpis

Anime Conventions: Because nerds aren't allowed to dress slutty on Halloween.

BluDesign

@bbrig

That would also be cosplay. You lose.

Dammit, I should've gone, I knew I should've gone.

liqideos

That Altair costume was right about on par with the one Ubisoft had parading around last year at events.

Timmy the cat

Thats funny, you guys are saying that cosplay is nerdy on the comment board of a video game blog about cosplaying, heh heh ironic.

TheToiletDuck

Bloody hell, i was looking at the group pic with toon link in the center and thought the dude/chick near the top right (next to some blue ears) was totally naked. Turns out it's a combination of naked back and the arm of the person in front.

Creepy.

TheToiletDuck

Red TheHaze Veron

Watashi-wa desutoid, baby!!!

mistic

yeah they must've beat the not-so-impressive-record from guinness... i guess virtually any *-con would do that :-)

AndyCat

N E R D S ! ! ! !

hood_954

SIDEBOOB = EPIC WIN

MatCD

I looked through the pictures for someone dressed as Captain Falcon, and I did not find what I was looking for.

(if someone else did, please tell me)

Red TheHaze Veron

Shameless plug FTW!!!
Its related BTW woot

@kapkomi
Apologies, I saw none but im sure there were at least one with more than 14,000 people attending.

Too Much Coffee Man

@AndyCat

lol. When u said that I immediately pictured this

Batthink

Manfred Von Karma, Psycho Mantis and Laharl cosplays were very good. The Laharl cosplayer even got the hair right. O_O

But the most disgusting picture has to be of the RE4 Weapons Seller. He's got nothing to sell except sweat! :OP

Moltar

I admire the effort of the Bowser outfit.

zombiekiller13

What is with the circle of sweat around the RE4 merchant's boob?

I...I didn't need to see that.

Char Aznable

Damn, that dude went all out on the sword as Nightmare from Soul Calibur. It's just too bad that he had to spray paint a catcher's chest protector for the armor. lol

Also, thank you for starting my day off right with some sideboob. It's part of a complete breakfast.

Aaron Mxy Yost

Amaterasu + Companion Cube & Cake = Win.

Chicken008

Ran ran ruuu!

Tim Sheehy

Chicken, the Ronald McDonald was actually pretty fail. Not only did he give a half ass ran ran ruu, but the second time we saw and asked him, he used the excuse that "not enough people know about it" for him to want to do it.

Chocobo Knight

Heh. Snake in a box. I'd lift it up and give him a high-five. He should've teamed up with Companion Cube. That would've been epic. XD

I'll have to agree about the Resident Evil 4 merchant. Instead of concealed weapons for purchase, BO takes its places. Ew.

Otherwise, there's some pretty good costumes amongst the rest that are kinda 'meh' or just outright bad.

lucashoal

Lul, furry comics at an anime con. The Genus comics aren't even that good from what I've seen.

Super Special Secret - Niero is a furry?