Gaming Records Week: Game Script

To finish off my week of Gaming Records, I figured I would talk about something that played into both of my major interests in life: Video games and writing.  As someone who aspires to possibly write video game scripts for a living, this one really blows me away just thinking about the collective effort necessary …

Gaming Records Week: Swearing

Sometimes video games include swearing. If you're considering Scarface: The World is Yours however, than video games include a lot of swearing. Scarface: The World is Yours was a multi-platform game released on October 10, 2006 by Radical Entertainment under the published by Sierra Entertainment and distributed by Vivendi Games.  It's a Grand Theft Auto inspired third-person action game …

Gaming Records Week: Arcade Machine

Following off yesterday's record on a large game console controller, today's Guinness World Record is for the world's Largest Arcade Machine. 44-year-old Jason Camberis, who builds and sells arcade machines and security systems for a living, was interviewed in 2015 about his massively scaled arcade cabinet, which appears in the 2016 Guinness Book of World …

Gaming Records Week: NES Controller

In 2012, the Guinness World Record was set for the world's Largest Video Game Controller.    The NES Controller, 30 times larger than its original counterpart, was shown off at the launch for the Guinness Book of World Record's 2012 Gamer's Edition in London, England. Created in five months by Ben Allen, a British Engineering …

Gaming Records Week: Minesweeper

Here's a fun record to kick things off.  Did you know that the largest game of Minesweeper was created by the company CineMassive in August, 2015?  2015 was Minesweeper's 30th anniversary, and to celebrate this the video wall company teamed up with Minesweeper developers to create a massive version of the game. The dimensions of the …

A week of Gaming Records

My Mom is a book editor.  She does some freelancing work, some fact-checking, and runs a blog about her work and her interest in the English language over at Dara Rochlin Book Doctor.  Her interest does serve as a good dose of inspiration to me, as a lot of my passion in life revolves around …