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RoboCop
RoboCop (1988)
subdirectory_arrow_right RoboCop (Game), RoboCop (Game), RoboCop (Game)
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Ocean's home computer ports of RoboCop were some of the decade's best-selling home computer games in the United Kingdom. The ZX Spectrum version specifically managed to remain in the higher ends of the console's sales charts from December 1988 to as late as February 1991, while the home computer ports in general were able to top the UK's all-format charts for a record-setting 36 consecutive weeks until August 1989.
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Console Difference, General, Record, Sales
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New Computer Express Issue #7 (24 December 1988) (page 3 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/NH2021_New_Computer_Express_Issue007.pdf/page/n1/mode/2up

New Computer Express Issue #44 (9 September 1989) (page 3 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/NH2021_New_Computer_Express_Issue044.pdf/page/n2/mode/1up

Computer Video Games Issue #98 (January 1999) (page 8 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-098/page/n7/mode/2up

Your Sinclair Issue #56 (August 1990):
https://web.archive.org/web/20070701223341/http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/completeguidetoshootemups2.htm

Your Sinclair Issue #62 (February 1991) (page 23 in the magazine):
https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/pages/your-sinclair/62/23

RetroGamer article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002640/http://www.retrogamer.net/retro_games80/the-making-of-robocop/
Mario Kart 7
Mario Kart 7 (2011)
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Attachment Following the shutdown of Nintendo Network on April 8, 2024, two players by the user handles of Marioiscool246 and Fishguy6564 attempted to stay connected to the service in some form by activating online multiplayer in Mario Kart 7 and playing for as long as possible. The campaign, which originated as a way to determine how Nintendo Network functionality is disabled for a given title, used bots and a custom patch to keep the pair's 3DS systems connected and active.

While Marioiscool246's 3DS eventually froze after just over a month, Fishguy6564 remained live for substantially longer, with his own system not crashing until November 3, 209 days later. In doing so, he broke the record for the longest recorded time spent in post-shutdown online multiplayer, surpassing both the 25-day stretch held by Halo 2 player APACHE_N4SIR in 2010 and the 68-day Splatoon marathon conducted by Lcd101 earlier in 2024.
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Cheat, General, Modding, Online Play, Record
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Kien
Kien (2024)
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Kien was originally developed between 2002 and 2004 by AgeOfGames, a group of five Italian developers who had no prior experience making video games, aiming to be the first company in their country to develop a game for the Game Boy Advance. The game's release would end up being cancelled three separate times when multiple publishers picked up the game and then decided that releasing it would be too risky for sales. At the time, the game was completed and sent to gaming publications, with one known review appearing in the American magazine Nintendo Power in 2003. The game remained unreleased for over 20 years, but a prototype ROM of it did leak online at one point. Game designer Fabio Belsanti would be the only member of the game's original development team to remain at AgeOfGames, who had shifted to developing educational games to stay afloat. Eventually, with the rising popularity in retro games and lowered cost to produce GBA cartridges, AgeOfGames was able to release Kien in 2024 both digitally and on physical cartridges through retro game publisher Incube8 Games. The game's release garnered attention for it possibly having taken the record for the longest delayed video game release in history, surpassing Duke Nukem Forever and Beyond Good & Evil 2 by taking 22 years to release.
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Cancelled Release, Corporate Affairs, Development, Early Build, General, Leak, Magazine, Prototype, Real Life, Record, Release Date, Reviews, Sales
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate marked the 100th credited time that Charles Martinet voiced Mario in a video game. This voice credit would earn Martinet the Guinness World Record for the most video game voiceover performances as the same character, which currently stands at 104 credits as of August 14, 2019.
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Credits, Record, Voice Acting
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Tetris
Tetris (1989)
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In December 2023, a 13-year-old boy named Willis Gibson from Oklahoma became the first known person to "beat" the NES version of Tetris. At level 157 (which in itself was a world record), he reached the game's "kill screen", a feat only accomplished previously with machine assistance. A video of his victory was uploaded to his YouTube channel "Blue Scuti" on January 1, 2024.
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100% Completion, First, General, Real Life, Record
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God of War Ragnarök
God of War Ragnarök (2022)
subdirectory_arrow_right Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Game)
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During The Game Awards 2022, Christopher Judge's acceptance speech for the "Best Performance" award (given to him for his performance as Kratos in God of War Ragnarök) ran for 7 minutes and 59 seconds. This speech has been noted for surpassing the Guinness World Record for the "Longest speech accepting an Oscar award" that is currently held by actress Greer Garson for her speech at the 15th Academy Awards in 1943, which lasted for 5 minutes and 30 seconds. The length of Judge's speech was referenced during his appearance at The Game Awards 2023, where he presented that year's award for "Best Performance". Prior to announcing the nominees, he took the opportunity to poke fun at the length of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III's campaign, claiming "my speech last year was longer than this year's Call of Duty campaign". Following the ceremony, several developers who currently and formerly worked on the Call of Duty series responded negatively to the roast, with Sledgehammer Games engineer Darcy Sandall saying:

"Honestly, as COD developers, we've heard way worse. But we don't expect it from a peer, at an event that supposed to be celebrating this years achievements in gaming. Especially with all the information that was leaked about it's development."

It's worth noting that both before and after release, Modern Warfare III's campaign mode was heavily criticized, with many describing it as shallow, short, rushed, and disappointing in spite of its technical aspects.
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Awards/Awards Show, Celebrity, Complaint, General, Real Life, Record, Reviews
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month December 9, 2023
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Microsoft Minesweeper
Microsoft Minesweeper (1990)
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Bill Gates became so addicted to Minesweeper that he had to delete it off of his PC to focus on work. He would then go to then-Microsoft president Mike Hallman and borrow his PC when he wanted to play the game, and eventually got a record of 5 seconds. Following this, Microsoft development manager Tom Reeves would cheat at beating Gates' time by building a macro to automatically complete the game. Gates would respond in an email:

"My critical skills are being displaced by a computer. This technology thing is going too far. How can one retain human dignity when computers do the important stuff better than people?"
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General, Real Life, Record, Speedrun, Technology
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Dog's Life
Dog's Life (2003)
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Dog's Life holds the Guinness World Record for "Most Named Characters Voiced in a Videogame by a Single Actor", with 32 of the game's characters being voiced by Kerry Shale.
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General, Real Life, Record, Voice Acting
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month November 14, 2023
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Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
subdirectory_arrow_right Sega Master System/Mark III (Platform)
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There are two different candidates for the video game console with the longest lifespan, from official introduction to discontinuation, and which one holds the distinction depends on one's metrics.

In terms of support from its original developer, the longest-lasting video game console is the Famicom, the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Famicom was introduced in 1983 and remained on store shelves until 2003, lasting twenty years on the market.

However, when counting support from third party manufacturers, the distinction instead goes to the Sega Master System. While Sega incrementally discontinued the device between 1991 and 1994 depending on the region, Brazilian manufacturer Tectoy received a license from Sega to continue manufacturing clones of the Master System due to its high popularity in Brazil. These clone consoles continue to be manufactured in the present day, decades after the original Master System's launch in 1985.
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Real Life, Record, Sales
person VinchVolt calendar_month November 10, 2023
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IGN South Africa article:
https://za.ign.com/ps4/64636/feature/the-5-longest-console-lifespans

Archived page from Sega of Japan's website clarifying the launch year of the Master System:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140716112819/http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mk3/
Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Continuum (Game), I, Robot (Game), Jumping Flash! (Game)
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Attachment The title of "first 3D platformer" is often erroneously given to either 1996's Super Mario 64 or 1995's Jumping Flash!. Despite this, neither game can factually claim that title, with 1990's Alpha Waves being the true owner of the title according to Guinness World Records.

Additionally, 1984's I, Robot - while primarily a shooting game - did feature 3D platforming segments.
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General, Mistake, Record
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Guinness World Record for First 3D Platform Video Game:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/89373-first-3d-platform-videogame

Hardcore Gaming 101 I, Robot article:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/i-robot/
Franchise: Mario
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As of 2023, Mario has prominently appeared in at least one theatrical film per decade since he was created in 1981:
•1986’s Super Mario Bros: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach, which is one of the first film adaptations of a video game.
•1993’s Super Mario Bros, the first live-action film adaptation of a video game.
•2007’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary that revolves around Steve Wiebe attempting to usurp Billy Mitchell’s high score on Donkey Kong.
•2015’s Pixels, which incorporates Donkey Kong as the final boss of the film’s climax (alongside Mario making a brief cameo).
•2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which is the first video game film to make $1 billion dollars at the box office.

Interestingly, the two films that weren’t direct adaptations of the games, The King of Kong and Pixels, were directed and produced respectively by Seth Gordon, who considered making a 3D film adaptation of Super Paper Mario back in 2008.
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Adaptation, Coincidence, Record
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Dance Dance Revolution A20
Dance Dance Revolution A20 (2019)
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As of October 8th, 2023, "MAX 360"'s Singles Challenge Chart holds the record for highest note count of all DDR songs (excluding long versions of songs), at 1,000 steps.
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General, Music, Record
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RemyWiki Page for the song:
https://remywiki.com/MAX_360

MAX 360 Challenge Chart:
https://youtu.be/s3-fp5Mnme4?si=1YkekY_o-kvRl5MQ
Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2
Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2 (2007)
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Boss Rush (Ver. SN2) is widely considered one of the hardest Challenge Courses in the Dance Dance Revolution series, if not the hardest overall. As of September 25th, 2023, there are only two recorded instances of people beating this song on original arcade hardware: first by Kaze.573 on February 14th, 2017, and second by FEFEMZ on September 28th, 2018.
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Competitive, Difficulty, General, Music, Real Life, Record
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Video detailing the course and its history:
https://youtu.be/R5hLBKsKSZw

Video of Kaze.573's clear of the course:
https://youtu.be/nDj0EmIfKBM

Video of FEFEMZ's clear of the course:
https://youtu.be/bqUS8jUwI64
Chrome Dino
Chrome Dino (2014)
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Chrome Dino is coded to conclude after playing for 17 million years straight, the same amount of time between the dinosaurs' evolution and extinction. This is, quite obviously, not realistically possible for any player.
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Easter Egg, Record, Secret, Unused Content, Unwinnable
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 7, 2023
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Annalynn
Annalynn (2021)
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As of version 1.3, after inputting a secret code on the Practice Mode select screen, "Mike%" is activated, which adds a timer to the game which stops once Mike is defeated. This is presumably a nod to the Mike% speedrunning category found on the game's page on Speedrun.com.

If this code is active while playing the game's final level, Mike is found sleeping in the corner of the boss room.
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Bonus Content, Cheat, Competitive, Easter Egg, Meme, Record, Reference, Secret, Speedrun, Update Difference
person FazDude calendar_month September 7, 2023
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Annalynn - Sleeping Mike Secret?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TIzoajSn_k

Speedrun.com Mike% speedrunning category:
https://www.speedrun.com/annalynn?h=Mike&;x=7dg03y7k
Not for Broadcast
Not for Broadcast (2022)
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Not For Broadcast currently holds the Guinness World Record for "Most Full Motion Video footage in a videogame" at 42 hours, 57 minutes, and 52 seconds.
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General, Real Life, Record
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Cuphead
Cuphead (2017)
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The developers planned to surpass the Guinness World Record for number of boss battles in a run and gun game by having over 30 to the record's 25.
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Development, General, Record
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month March 8, 2018
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Riven: The Sequel to Myst
Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Tokimeki Memorial 2 (Game)
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Attachment Both Riven: The Sequel to Myst and the base version of Tokimeki Memorial 2 hold the record for the most CDs for a single game on the original PlayStation, with each of them being spread across five discs. However, Tokimeki Memorial 2 becomes the sole record-holder when counting three additional DLC discs that were distributed with the tie-in magazine Hibikino Watcher, bringing its own total up to eight CDs.

In the latter game's case, the large disc count is due to the use of a unique voice synthesis program that lets the game's cast pronounce the player character's custom name in naturalistic ways. Because of the intensive nature of this program, the base game only allows it for two characters, Hikari Hinamoto and Kasumi Asou (a third, Maeka Kudanshita, calls the player "shōnen" – roughly equivalent to "kiddo" – regardless of what name they inputted). The Hibikino Watcher CDs were consequently handed out in order to accommodate the rest of the game's cast.
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Console Difference, Downloadable Content (DLC), General, Magazine, Record, Technology, Version Difference, Voice Acting
person KidDivinegon calendar_month April 2, 2014
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