Since the first video games were released, there have always been some people who attempt
to take gaming a step further, and now that video games are getting a lot more attention
from major media platforms, the achievements and records set by gamers like you and I are
becoming more and more recognized.
You're watching GamerBrain and today we're taking a look at 12 video game records that
will probably never be broken.
First Video Game In Space Some pretty weird things have been taken off
this planet but In 1993 Russian astronaut Aleksander Serebrov blasted into space aboard
a mission to the MIR Space Station.
Although without knowing it Alexander was setting a gaming record by bringing a Gameboy
and a copy of the ever so popular tetris along with him.
His Gameboy spent 197 days in space before it returned to earth and sold for over $12
hundred dollars apon his return
Most F words in a single video game
No, GTA doesn't get the award for most uses of the word F*ck in a video game.
That distinct honor goes to Mafia 2 which for those of you who don't know, has a pretty
hefty amount of F words throughout playing it.
While 2K's mafia adventure didn't snag any Game of the Year awards, It does get the
award for being able to drop up to 397 F-bombs in an average 12-hour play session.
That's 33 per hour, or an average of one every two minutes.
So if you don't like swearing or you're a little kid, then maybe stay away from this
one.
Best selling game of all time
Does this game really need any explanation?
It's Tetris, the game that is possibly the most popular puzzle game of all time.
It's been released for practically every game console imaginable in some form or another
from the Commodore 64 to the Playstation 4.
Tetris is almost untouchable when it comes to sales records, selling over 495 million
copy's world wide and it seems almost unimaginable that any other game will even come close to
selling as many copies puzzle game behomoth.
Longest COD Session
The popular Guinness Book of World Records cites 135 hours is the longest session of
gameplay in COD history.
Although their rules do come with a slight catch.
The holder of the record for longest COD gameplay session, Okan Kaya of Australia.
was able to take a 10-minute break for every hour of play time of COD Black Ops 2.
This rule Granted our record holder some much needed rest between sessions.
We definitely wouldn't want to see anyone die after attempting to break this record
and spending around 6 days straight staring at a television screen is enough to make anyone
go insane.
Gamer Beats Dark Souls With 9 Different Controllers
For some players, Simply beating a video game just isn't enough.
I've seen twitch streamers beat pokemon games with a guitar hero guitar, but clearly
someone had to take it a step further.
In March of 2016 a Canadian streamer used a rockband guitar, drumkit, piano, a set of
donkey kong bongos, and a few other assorted controllers to beat arguably one of the toughest
games out there: Dark Souls.
Benjamin Gwin (a.k.a. bearzly on twitch) earned the Guinness World Record for "most alternative
control methods used to complete Dark Souls."
In total, Ben used a total of nine different controllers to beat the game.
While many struggle to beat the game using even one normal controller, Benjamin did it
with a rockband guitar.
Just let that sink in for a minute.
Youngest Pro Gamer
Kids have always been interested in playing video games, but Victor De Leon III or little
poison as he's known, has been playing games since he was just two years old.
It probably shouldn't come as much of a surprise, that he's the youngest pro gamer ever at just
11.
Victor signed a competitive contract with MLG at just age 7, And was competing in local
halo tournaments at age 4.
I know that gamers are getting younger and younger these days but signing a major league
gaming contract at 7 years old seems like a record that won't be beat any time soon.
Oldest Video Game Record Holder
for the complete opposite of the youngest pro gamer, look no further than John S Bates.
The oldest person to hold a gaming record.
In early 2008 John began recording every perfect game he bowled in Wii Sports.
By June 2012 and just shy of his 86th birthday John had amassed a whooping 14,000 perfectly
bowled games.
Which for those of you who don't know means 14,000 consecutive strikes.
Over the course of the next few years John was able to bowl another 6,000 perfect games
and to us, this seems like a record that will probably stay intact for years to come.
World's Largest Arcade Machine
Before online play was a mainstay on home consoles and long before arcades bit the dust
an entire culture of arcade gamers was born.
Just because the arcade scene died out doesn't mean that people stopped playing them.
44-year-old Jason Camberis, a network engineer from Chicago constructed the world's largest
arcade cabinet in 2015.
The machine measures in at a whooping 4.1 meters tall and just over a meter deep.
To put that into perspective the machine is larger than a fully grown African elephant,
so no this machine probably wouldn't fit in your living room.
The cabinet has the ability to play over 200 classic arcade titles and when asked why he
built it, Jason simply stated: "I wanted to bring joy and happiness to people".
Beating 3 Games At Once
Mega Man speedrunner and streamer agwawaf was able to beat all 3 entries in the megaman
x series for the super Nintendo.
Not crazy enough for you?
Well he did so by beating each game at the same time with 100% completion.
this was a tool-assisted speedrun that seen agwawaf playing all three games at the same
time.
his controller's inputs were used on all three games simultaneously.
Sure, his play through's weren't perfect and he took some damage along the way, but
he was able to beat all three games in just under 44 minutes.
From personal experience I can say that It'd take me double his time just to beat one of
the megaman x games.
It's crazy to me that in just 43 minutes the viewer see's every boss battle, end
credit, and endings in one video.
Best-selling Sports game ever!
Leave it to Nintendo to trust their pride and Joy Shigeru Miyamoto to be a world record
holder.
If you don't know him then what are you doing here, but He's the man responsible
for not only some of Nintendo's best-selling games of all time such as Super Mario Bros,
Donkey Kong, And the legend of Zelda.
But with a resume with some of the greatest games of all time miyomoto is also responsible
for the creation of the the single best-selling game of all time.
Miyamoto was responsible for the creation of Wii sports which has sold just over 45
million units.
It's no surprise that this game sold so well seeing everyone and their mother had
a Wii when they were popular, and whether you or I are willing to admit it, We all played
the hell out of wii sports.
There was just something so satisfying about playing tennis from your couch..
But to me 45 million units of a single game being sold definitely seems like a tough one
to beat.
Longest Just Dance Play Session
California school teacher's Carrie Swidecki wasn't messing around when she decided to
break the record for longest play session of popular Kinect game Just Dance.
Carrie managed to set three world records in one try while playing the dance game where
you have to dance literally the entire time.
Carrie danced for an amazing 138 hours, breaking the record for longest video game session,
Longest dance game marathon, and longest marathon with a Kinect game.
And through her love of the just dance series, Carrie dropped 80 pounds and made over $7,000
for childrens health charities.
And Carrie, If you're watching this you get a huge virtual high five from everyone
over at GamerBrain.
Largest video game collection
We all love buying video games, and some of us collect, and some of us get rid of a game
as soon as we've beaten it.
There are people, though, who collect video games just for the sake of collecting them
and may never play all the games they've amassed.
Joel Hopkins, the Australian-born gamer who, as of October 2015, had managed to amass a
collection of 18,000 unique titles and 200 plus consoles.
His collection is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest video
game collection in the world.
It took Joel 20 years to amass this huge collection of games and he began taking his collecting
very seriously and even documenting it here on Youtube on his channel "TheLastGamerShow".
Although his collection is apparently valued at around a million dollars, and this one
seems like a record that probably won't be beat
any time soon.
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