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Guinness now prints video gaming record
Think your video game scores are the best? Find out just how far you need to go in the "Guinness World Records — Gamer's Edition 2008.”
The book includes profiles of top gamers and game producers, information on top-selling games, and lots of other trivia and tidbits.
Top scores on dozens of arcade, console and handheld games are provided by Twin Galaxies, the official record-keeping organization for video game scores, as seen in the film "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.”
However, the published list doesn't include everything Twin Galaxies keeps score of online — making the "Gamer's Edition” more of a trivia book than a comprehensive book of world records.
This could be to its credit — hundreds of pages of games many people haven't played followed by names most people don't know might not make for the most exciting tome.
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Features Editor Matthew Price has worked for The Oklahoman since 2000. He’s a University of Oklahoma graduate who has also worked at the...
Features Editor Matthew Price has worked for The Oklahoman since 2000. He’s a University of Oklahoma graduate who has also worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and was a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern for the Dallas Morning News. He’s always been interested in comics, reading them at age 2, working in comic shops starting at 17, printing his first comics 'zine at 20 and buying a comic-book store at 23. His column on comics, Word Balloons, has run weekly in The Oklahoman’s Weekend Look section since 2001.Matt's blog, Nerdage, has been honored by the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, and his store, Norman's Speeding Bullet Comics, co-owned with his wife, Annette, was nominated for the Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award in 2005.
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"Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008” features lots of trivia, information and scores from the world of video games.
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