10 Guinness Gaming Records You Didn't Know Existed

We've all seen near-perfect speed runs and highly evolved high scores, but how many people can relate the initial eremite song game?¹ Or name the gamer who's saved the many Lemmings?²

The not long ago expelled Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer's Edition book is crowded of important achievements from the world of videogames. The archives add high-speed play-throughs of renouned games, Xbox Live Gamerscores and other feats, encompassing every genre imaginable.

Plenty of the 2011 archives are weird and hilarious. Some of them, though, are the arrange of archives you didn't even regard would exist. Here are 10 of the book's many enigmatic high-water marks.

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First Game to Have an Officially Recognized Day

Winner:

How it won: Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley spoken Sept. 21, 2010, " Sid Meier's Day " to award the game's let go and commemorate the strength of the game-development attention in his state, that developer Firaxis calls home. we say we take it a step serve and only call it "Sid Meier's Day."

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² Martijn Cobussen (326).