Originally published at: Obscure world record broken
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This man has a lot of money. I wonder how he makes it.
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I will have to console myself with just one console plugged into my tv.
Although, I do have the PC plugged in as well. So, sort of two?
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In college 25 years ago, I lived with an electric engineering student who had 6 game consoles connected to the tv at once through his own switcher. Six was already crazy, and more than we could make practical use of. 444 is bananas.
But if you go to this much trouble, get some controllable switches and write some code rather than having to manually look up the switch configurations each time
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It seems possible to me that this is more of a flex than a love of the game.
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Video link for the BBS:
Impressive collection! When I used to collect I had some 10 consoles connected to a TV and it was an utter disaster.
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… it’s never too late to level up
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… good luck with that
20+ “Ibrahim Al-nasser” profiles
Had a similar thought as soon as I saw this. Just searching his name on DDG brings up tons of articles about this record, and conspicuously, none of them say anything more about the man himself than “gamer” or “game enthusiast”.
Also, it’s really expensive to get a Guinness records “official” to show up in person, on the order of 10s of thousands if I remember correctly.
ETA: The record itself (in a photo of him with it) is dated May 30th. The sudden PR flood now, 3 months later, is weird, too.
I doubt very seriously if this guy paid 10s of thousands of dollars to get a Guinness official to show up for a bunch of silly drumming records to raise money for a school music program.
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Source: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxvPUaAgZCQO5CtQX1xZcAUd1CVcbt_dPJ
From HBomberGuy’s video on Tommy Tallarico.
Thing is, you don’t actually need an adjudicator on-site to get a record. I don’t know the details, but I assume sufficient documentation is all it actually takes. To be fair, I don’t know for sure that this guy (consoles, not drums) brought in an adjudicator, just assuming he did considering the video is on the GWR official channel.
Also, considering GWR is just a publicity stunt, they have an editorial team picking out records they find interesting to put in their books, not just taking whatever is submitted that year as impartial observers.
I didn’t even know there were 440 different consoles. I mean, there’s never more than four major brands doing consoles at a time, and they only come out every few years… there must be far, far more “off brand” consoles than I’m aware of…
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There aren’t. 2 seconds in you can see that he has multiple versions of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and later you can see variations of the NES/Famicom. He doesn’t have 440 unique consoles plugged in. He has 440 consoles, period.
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There are at least 900 first generation consoles, but most of those are Pong clones.
Since then there have been just over 100, as well as home computers like Commodore and Sinclair computers. Nowhere near 440, so there have to be variants in there.
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Is there a widely accepted definition of “game console” anyway?
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So there wasn’t any practical purpose to any of this, it was purely for the “record.”
Huh, I hadn’t considered all the early single-game consoles. I would have assumed the bulk of weird off-brand consoles would be more recent (especially now that you can produce an NES clone for practically pennies). I know there were a certain number of fairly contemporaneous hardware clones in the early decades of consoles (which while technically distinct, existed to run games for the console they were knocking off, so functionally aren’t different) but there’s a surprising number of modern knock-off consoles (“Vii,” “Wi Wi” “Polystation” etc.) all of which either run a limited selection of primitive games made specifically for them (and/or bootleg earlier generation games, usually NES), or are just basically something like Android phone hardware, capable of running some phone games, but in a console form.
Seems especially fuzzy now that various companies in China are throwing, say, Android phone hardware in a box with an HDMI cable and calling it a console.
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