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Guinness World Records: The Videogame is a party video game based on the Guinness World Records series of books of world records. Developed by TT Fusion and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the game was released on November 7, 2008, in Europe, November 11, 2008, in North America, and November 12, 2008 in Australia.
Website. guinnessworldrecords .com. Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
Several of Todd Rogers' records have come under scrutiny for being seemingly impossible or lacking sufficient proof. In 2002, Robert Mruczek, then chief referee at Twin Galaxies, officially rescinded Todd's record time in Barnstorming after other players pointed out that his time of 32.04 seconds did not appear to be possible, even when the game was hacked to remove all obstacles.
On November 7, 1982, Billy Mitchell set the first widely recognized Donkey Kong world record of 874,300 points. [1] [2] The record stood until August 17, 2000, when it was surpassed by Tim Sczerby's score of 879,200. [3] [4] The competition became more prominent after it was covered in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong, which follows the ...
The books have also inspired two television programmes (Where's Wally? the 1991 animated series and Where's Wally? the 2019 animated series), a comic strip and a series of video games. As of 2007, more than 73 million books of Where's Wally? (and his regional names) had been sold around the world since his original publication in 1987. [2]
1-2 players alternating turns. Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. [7] Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most commercially successful games from the golden age of arcade video games and one of the first with a significant female player base.
English. Box office. $790,128 [ 1] The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film about competitive arcade gaming directed by Seth Gordon. It follows Steve Wiebe in his attempts to take the high score record for the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong from Billy Mitchell.
Watch on. The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and ...