I want this guy’s collection. Imagine the time, effort, and money to collect all of those games! Antonio Romero is now the holder of the Guinness World Record for the largest video game collection in the world. The Texas resident has a total number of 20,139 games and over 100 systems (both regular and collector’s editions):
It took the folks at Guinness a whopping eight days just to count them all, which sounds ridiculous until you see it for yourself. What first appears to be one impressive game room keeps extending further and further, filling room after room from floor to ceiling—a true nerd paradise . . . “Nerd-vana,” if you will.
In the end, we’re not quite sure if Antonio deserves admiration or psychiatric help, but we’re totally jealous either way.
Image credit: Guinness World Records
Video game designers try to engage experienced players for 20 to 40 hours per title. On the other hand, my nephew would play Mario Cart for ten hours a day, if he could. Using the low estimate, that would come to 400,000 hours (45 years) of game time. Whoa!
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It's good that guys like this are collecting physicals, in case he has anything that needs to be preserved. Games that will one day can only be played digitally - someone will need the physical copy to extract it and test it. And these guys will have it.
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