Today, Yahoo! posted a slide show of the Ten Weirdest Video Game Records. I thought it would be fun to see what made the list. First is the Largest Game of Tetris, which came out to be 1,138 square feet; it was made for the UK's Gadget Show in September, 2010. Next, came the Most Perfect Games of Wii Bowling by 85 year old John Bates, who bowled 2,850 perfect games in a row. The Oldest Voice Actor in a Video Game is Christopher Lee, who was 87 years and 124 days old when he worked on 2009's Kingdom Hearts. The Heaviest Console Light Gun, was made by Pelican for Xbox's Silent Scope, weighed 3 pounds and 5 ounces. Then came the Most Polygons Per Car in a Racing Game, 400,000 per car, which is owned by PS3's Gran Turismo 5. In Spain a group, of 10,490 people, gathered to record the Most People to Sing to a Karaoke Video Game singing Canta en Espanol. The Youngest Gamer to Achieve a Perfect Score in Dance Dance Revolution goes to 9 years and 288 day old Ryoata Wada. The Widest Variety of Player Death Animations is taken by Resident Evil 4, having 47 different ways to die. The Most Lemmings Saved is 366 by Martijn Cobussen. And finally, the Longest Cutscene in a Video Game is a scene from Metal Gear Solid 4 that comes out to be 27 minutes long.
Another record that has recently been achieved is the most viewed event on TV. Which goes to the 45th Super Bowl racking in a whopping 111 million viewers. In back to back years the Super Bowl has recorded the most viewers each year. Before the two Super Bowls, the series finale of M*A*S*H held the record, for most watched, for 27 years.
Monday, a Chechen rebel leader, named Doku Umarov, took responsibility for the airport bombing in Moscow last month. On the day of the bombing, Umarov posted a video on a Chechen rebel website saying that a "special operation" had been done. Later, he stated that "about 50 to 60 other rebels have prepared for jihad and will continue similar attacks on a weekly basis." Umarov also, stated that "many others will also follow in their footsteps and give their lives for Allah."
On a lighter note; yesterday, Blizzard Entertainment announced that Blizzcon will be returning in 2011. Blizzcon is a convention that only displays Blizzard computer game franchises; Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo. At the convention, Blizzard has a big event for each game, be it showing a new character class, debuting a new game, or showing a new area in a existing game. Blizzcon, which has been around since 2005, also has contests, demos, concerts, and much more. Every year, Blizzcon tickets sell out within the first day of being available. Which is why Blizzard now releases tickets twice instead of once; this also helps with the website shutting down because of to many visitors. This year, Blizzcon will be on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
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10 Weirdest Game Records:
http://blog.games.yahoo.com/photos/215-10-weirdest-video-game-records/1#OmgPhoid=1
Super Bowl sets record:
http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/story/09000d5d81e314b4/article/super-bowl-sets-american-tv-record-with-111-million-viewers?module=HP_headlines
Rebel claims bombing:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/07/russia.airport.bombing/index.html?hpt=T1
Blizzcon '11:
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?110207
The M*A*S*H finale appeared in 1983, and it was reported that it had 105.97 million viewers, though one estimate said there were as many as 125 million viewers. I didn't even know there were that many TVs in the US in 1983! M*A*S*H portrayed the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, stationed in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War. I bet most people still can't find Uijeongbu on a map, particularly if they think the map of Korea is Mexico ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, good stuff. Keep up the good work.