A little known fact about your resident Revolutionary is that I've been reading the Guiness book since I was about twelve. I could never explain why , but I was always been fascinated with reading about the mundane to the extraordinary efforts of humankind. Well last year they were kind enough to announce a new edition to the standard "Book"...a gaming edition. As you can assume my heart skipped a beat and I immediately flew into action. After about an hours worth of digging I found out that they had been in collab with Twin Galaxies(If you don't know who they are....for shame) for about two years , compiling and gathering these records , and readying this amazing little book. Well I've been waiting since last year for this book and I finally got my copy in the mail yesterday and I must admit that for $20...any self respecting gamer owes it to themselves to pick up a copy. They've broken it down into sections for the popular titles , such as
GTA
Castlevania
Metroid
Halo
Mario
You get the idea. Then it moves into an entire sports section broken down by the individual sport. After that they've even added a portable Twin Galaxies scorechart for old school arcade title.
http://gamers.guinnessworldrecords.com/
That is the official site for the book there. You can make an account and submit your own records...but be warned , obviously , Guiness has strict guidelines set around recording a record so check out the do's and dont's before you try and submit your record for "Most Hookers capped in VC". Hopefully enough people will buy the book so it becomes a staple in their lineup....hell the original Guiness is the most popular book in the world other then the bible and I refuse to believe that I am the only gamer that reads it. Anyway I just thought I'd drop that tidbit on ya.
-Rev
Nice find Rev!
Long time no see!
Its a cool idea...might pick it up
So half the information will be obsolete in a year or so? I guess its an interesting idea but I don't care much how fast someone can complete Tomb Raider.
2h 39min 30sec since Mar 29'th, 05
=P
Thx Justice. I would have been around more...but with a kid on the way my life has been..."hectic" lol
-Rev
I do want to get this, the most recent Guinness Record Book I have is 2004 I think. They're always amazingly satisfying objects to own.
I love how obscure some of the records can be, and then I wonder to myself what made anyone even bother to do it in the first place.
Its quite a good book. Imo, they didn't mention Neo-Geo enough in the hardware section. Other than that, its great. :O)