And one of those base are belong to me. Yes, five months after sneaking into the NVISION 08 Guinness World Records LAN Party, I have received confirmation that my 36 sleepless hours were not in vain: today, the record I set with 202 other BYOC gamers will appear on store shelves in the 2009 'Guinness Book of World Records: Gamer's Edition.'
But as much as I like to brag, my record will hardly be the most interesting found in "Gamers' Edition 2009." The world's first, worst game translation, the best Space Invaders score achieved by mind control, and the first game to be inspired by synaesthesia will join it -- and you can read all three of those records after the jump.
- Rez: First video game inspired by synaesthesia: (synaesthesia is a medical condition and literary technique that causes senses to become mixed up. In the medical condition, people literally see sounds, while the literary technique is exemplified in phrases such as “loud shirt”. In Rez, the condition is manifest in a unique interplay between sound, vision, and action – hence the game’s slogan: “ Rez will open open your senses- let’s go to synaesthesia.”)
- Highest Space Invaders score using mind control: A team of neurosurgeons, neurologists and engineers at Washington University, St. Louis, have devised a hands-free system of playing the classic video game Space Invaders using brain power alone. As part of pioneering studies into brain activity in November 2006, they attached an electrocorticographic grid to the brain of a teenager suffering from epilepsy. Engineers then adapted Atari software to react to stimuli transmitted through this grid, so that the boy could control an on-screen cursor simply by imagining the movements he would have to make to do so. The boy reached the third screen of the game, amassing 5,000 points.
- Zero Wing: First game mistranslation to spark an internet phenomenon: The sci-fi shooter Zero Wing, released in arcades in 1989 and on the Sega Mega Drive in 1991, became famous in 2001 for its opening cutscene, which featured the phrase “All your base are belong to us.” The mistranslation from the original Japanese transcript amused many gamers and spread across the internet to become a phenomenon.
February 4th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Congrats for your guiness
February 4th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Yeah, congrats on getting immortalized in (a) Guiness WR book.
February 5th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Hey man does it show our names or pictures???? I was one of the 203 as well.