Coming March 11 to North America (the book already hit European store shelves last week) is the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008. To celebrate the North American release, Guinness is holding
a worldwide Guitar Hero Relay between the UK, France, US, Canada, South Africa and Australia. Here are some winners already in print (severely pared down, just to give you a taste): 1) The Most Video Game Accolades: Sid Meier (due to his
Civilization series); 2) The most Successful Video Game Documentary: The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters -- a movie that our own John Yan blogged about in the AT&T Blue Room; ... and one that particularly threw me for a loop ... 3) The Largest Number of Games in a Single Series:
Final Fantasy? Nope.
Dragon Quest? Nope. Both of them together? Not even
close.
Mega Man -- with 17 games in the "classic" series starring the original character; there are also 11
Mega Man X games, four
Mega Man Zero games, two
Mega Man ZX games, three
Mega Man Legends games, six
Mega Man Battle Network games, plus three
Mega Man Star Force games making a total of 46 (!!!). Are you ready to
submit a record to break?