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Every gamer worth his or her salt really needs to know which gaming icon was originally going to be an armadillo, who the severed heads in the Pit in Mortal Kombat resemble, and which game Swedish pop band The Cardigans' song "My Favourite Game" is about.  These golden nuggets of gaming trivia are among many more revealed in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition, due for release on February 8 in the UK and March 11 in the US. The Gamer's Edition is the first of its kind, an offshoot from the Guinness World Records series, an annual compilation of facts and figures, including the fastest time to eat a 12-inch pizza, most sheep shorn in eight hours, and the location of the largest collection of aeroplane sick bags. If you are looking to buy it CLICK HERE In keeping with Guinness tradition, the Gamer's Edition of its record book compiles similarly obscure (and often humorous) factoids. A semirandom sampling is listed below: The Super Mario franchise is the best-selling game series of all time, having sold a total of 145 million units worldwide. As of November 2007, 466 million Xbox 360 achievements had been unlocked since the service launched, putting the combined global gamerscore at 11 billion. |
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A CRAZY VIDEO GAME collector has forked out over twelve
hundred Benjamins for a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger on the SNES, via
auctions site Ebay.
Quite what possesses someone to buy a video game and then leave it sealed on
a shelf for more than a decade we're not sure, but the chap must certainly be
glad now. He's also making a quids in, charging $7 for shipping on top of the
$1,231 final sale price. Cheap, much?
Chrono Trigger is one of the big boys of the old-school RPG class, being made
by Square software, better known for their work on Final Fantasy - to which
Chrono was a spinoff. It was considered revolutionary at the time, as Wikipedia
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| I expect I'm not alone in thinking that SNES emulation for the iPhone
is rather cool. The way I see it, it seems that as much as sales for
iPhone have not met expectations, the few it has shifted have made
their way into the hands of the right kind of people. As if emulation
for the NES, then the PlayStation wasn't good enough, having the same
for the SNES, arguably the epitome of all consoles ever may just be the
best third party app for the device yet.
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Video Game collecting is really interesting -- there are numerous rare and
uncommon games out in the wild that many people haven't heard of, but
some collectors get all crazy about. One of these games that gets the
hardcore collectors excited is up for sale right now on Ebay. The starting bid: $15,000. The game is NintendoWorld Championships Gold. This was a limited-edition game that Nintendo
put out for the NES in 1990. It was made around the time of the movie The Wizard, which stared Fred Savage, and promoted the release of Super Mario Bros. 3.
Nintendo had a contest where you had 6 some-odd minutes to get a bunch
of points in a couple of games, in this big competition, held by
Nintendo Power magazine. 90 grey edition Nintendo World Championship
games were made; and only 26 of the gold edition Nintendo World
Championship versions were given out to winners of the contest, making
this Catrtridge one of the most sought after games around.
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