List of record breakers in the gaming industry from digitalspy.co.uk
Most international Street Fighter competition wins/First woman to win a pro-Street Fighter event: If you know your Hadoukens from your Shoryukens, you might fancy your chances against these pro-Street Fighter players. The guy on the left is UK gamer Ryan Hart, the winner of 450 Street Fighter events in 13 different countries - the most international Street Fighter competition wins of all time. On the right is "Kayane" (aka Marie-Laure Norindr), the first female gamer to win a pro-Street Fighter tournament.
Largest gathering of people dressed as video games characters: The largest gathering of people dressed as video game characters stands at a not too shabby 425. The record was set by the folks at Buyseasons, Inc. on October 5, 2011 in Wisconsin. How many different video game characters can you spot?
Youngest person to be a professional video gamer : Meet 'Lil Poison' (aka Victor De Leon III), who, at the age of seven, signed a deal with Major League Gaming, making him the youngest signed pro-gamer in history. Even more remarkable is the fact that he started playing the Dreamcast at the age of two and entered his first Halo tournament aged just four!
Most perfect games of Wii Bowling: At the opposite end of the age bracket is John Bates, an 85-year-old Wisconsin resident with a soft spot for ten-pin bowling. Between December 2006 and October 2010, he racked up an unbelievable 2,850 perfect games on Wii Sports Bowling!
Fastest completion of Mario Kart circuit 1: Having played every Mario Kart game since its inception, we like to think that we're quite handy with a go-kart. Unfortunately, even we have to admit that we're not in the same league as Sam Çetin, who, with times of 58.34 seconds (PAL) and 56.45 seconds (NTSC), has recorded the fastest laps on Circuit 1 of the original Super Mario Kart.
Best-selling videogame heroine : Prior to the PlayStation era, video games weren't exactly teeming with strong female characters. Since making her debut in 1996, Lara Croft has proven that virtual women can take care of themselves. Having sold more than 28 million units, Lara Croft is the biggest selling video game heroine of all time, a figure likely to grow with the release of this year's Tomb Raider reboot.
Largest collection of playable gaming systems: Finally, we've seen some pretty impressive video game collections in our time, but nothing quite like the number of consoles, portables and LCD mini-systems accumulated by US collector Richard Lecce. With 483 items, Lecce holds the record for largest number of playable gaming systems. He also owns an impressive number of complete game collections, including every NES game ever released.
Oldest videogame voice actor/Longest-serving videogame voice actor: Aged 87 years 124 days when Kingdom Hearts 358/2 was released, Christopher Lee became the oldest video game voice actor of all time. The longest-serving video game voice actor, meanwhile, is Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon. As the voice of Scorpion, Boon is the man behind the infamous battle cry: "Get Over Here!"
Highest score on Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 1981): Hank Chien is the current holder of the Donkey Kong world record with a high-score of 1,090,400 points. His gargantuan score even eclipses that of fierce rivals Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, the stars of 2007 documentary The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters.
Most participants in a football videogame: In Trafalgar Square on June 11, 2010 - the same day that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa kicked off - 82 frenzied football fans took part in a single match of FIFA World Cup, the most participants ever in a football video game. That's a lot of substitutions!
Greatest fee paid for an appearance in a videogame advert : In a bid to appeal to a more mature audience, Nintendo reportedly paid Dame Helen Mirren a staggering £500,000 ($800,000 at the time) to appear in a series of adverts for Wii Fit, the highest fee ever paid for a video game advert appearance. We wonder what Chuck Norris will say when he finds out?
Largest Videogame Controller: Created by engineering student Ben Allen (pictured), this fully functioning NES controller is unsurprisingly the largest video game pad in the world. 30 times bigger than a regular NES pad, only a gamer the size of Nelson's Column could pick it up and use it like a standard controller.
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