Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2008 - EL33T Online
The Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2008 hit the shelves earlier this year. This is the first Guinness World Records book of video gaming achievements that celebrates the records and successes of the video gaming world. This means you will be able to check out high scores and records, biggest tournaments, largest cash prizes, most successful games and of course bizarre facts and trivia.
“Videogaming was one of our most popular sections of our annual book,” explained Gamers Edition Editor Keith Pullin “we are delighted to now give video game records the space they deserve, it is a must have for every gaming enthusiast!”
It also includes a summary of the key events of the video gaming year and features reviews of new releases, new consoles and major tournaments. Gamers can also look Vforward to game strategies, interviews with professionals as well as tips and cheats, not that we need them you understand. The book features full colour photography and illustrations.
If you are a gamer, you will probably want to display this book prominently on your shelf, next to those action figures we know you have. The fact that this book is a definitive guide to gaming records, facts and figures makes it a game fans ultimate companion. The Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2008 is now available in most countries around the world, including the US, UK, Europe and South Africa.
El33tonline is giving away a copy of The Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2008 to one lucky gamer. Thanks to Exclusive Books, Pavilion for kindly sponsoring this awesome prize. Head over to our competitions page for more information, all you need to do is send us the answer to an easy question.
Take a look at a few records
For more information on the book, head over to the Guinness World Record Gamers Edition website. You will see that there really are very interesting things that every gamer should know. Such as The Legend of Zelda is the longest running action adventure series of all time. The first game was released on the NES in 1986 and the most recent, Phantom Hourglass, was released on the NDS in 2007. Staying in Hyrule, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the highest rated game of all time, earning it 97.7% on Gamerankings.com and 99% on Metacritic.
You might also be interested to know that the first Tomb Raider movie was released in the USA in 2001 and grossed $274 703 340 at cinemas worldwide, making it the most successful film based on a video game. Lara Croft is also the most famous female video game character in the world.
Lara may be famous but Metroid’s Samus Aran takes top honours as the first human female video game star. If players completed the first Metroid within a certain time, it was revealed that Samus was actually a woman.
Going from good video game movies to bad, Street Fighter earned the reputation of the least popular internationally released fighting game spin-off movie ever. Starring Kylie Minogue and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Street Fighter has earned a top spot in the IMDB list of worst movies of all time.
The best selling PS2 game is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City with 15 million copies sold. It is also the most consistently controversial video game in history while GTA is the most successful video game franchise on the PS2.
Tetris is the most ported video game, appearing on 55 different computer game platforms. So you can probably identify with Faiz Chopdat who served the Longest Prison Sentence for Playing A Computer Game after he refused to turn off his Tetris game while on an airplane.
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