frogbeastegg
02-04-2008, 19:35
Gaming has been deemed worthy of its own Guinness book of records! (http://gamers.guinnessworldrecords.com/book2008/preview.aspx) First I'd heard of it was a week ago, a casual mention that the bookshop I work in could expect some stock in time for the release. Three boxes of it arrived today.
The embargo says we're not allowed to sell it until the 6th of February. It doesn't say that curious frogs can't have a quick look through one of the copies in the stock room. It's a hefty piece of work with a semi-flexible hardbacked cover. The back pages contain high score charts for many arcade games, and loads of facts and score charts are packed in where they'd be relevant, such as the shortest completion times for Super Metroid and the highest scores in non-arcade games. The front has a general overview of 2007 as a gaming year, with a month by month breakdown of key events and releases. Notable voice actors, artists and musicians all get mentions alongside the games they are most famous for. Then there's records for all kinds of things, like most playable characters in a game.
The bulk of the book is split up according to genre. Each genre has a 2 page introduction and then they big series and titles from that genre are given two pages each. There's loads of names here, loads. Pretty much every game I thought to look for was in there. Series are dealt with from the very first game to the most recent, with screenshots of all entries.
Total War has a two page spread devoted to it. Quite a few stats and quotes scattered about in little boxes, and a body of text giving an overview of how the games play and how the series has evolved. There's a table giving the top 10 ranked STW MP players, their clans and their scores. A Mike B quote is splashed across the centre of the section, it's a good one about games development being like a gulag, only without the nice guards and kindly environment.
It's RRP is £15.99, making it cheaper than the other varieties of Guinness BoR. My shop will be doing it for £9.99, and I expect most others will too.
Not seeing the attraction of the other varieties of Guinness BoR I expected this to be as unappealing. The flick through was interesting enough I might part with the £8 it would cost me to buy one.
The embargo says we're not allowed to sell it until the 6th of February. It doesn't say that curious frogs can't have a quick look through one of the copies in the stock room. It's a hefty piece of work with a semi-flexible hardbacked cover. The back pages contain high score charts for many arcade games, and loads of facts and score charts are packed in where they'd be relevant, such as the shortest completion times for Super Metroid and the highest scores in non-arcade games. The front has a general overview of 2007 as a gaming year, with a month by month breakdown of key events and releases. Notable voice actors, artists and musicians all get mentions alongside the games they are most famous for. Then there's records for all kinds of things, like most playable characters in a game.
The bulk of the book is split up according to genre. Each genre has a 2 page introduction and then they big series and titles from that genre are given two pages each. There's loads of names here, loads. Pretty much every game I thought to look for was in there. Series are dealt with from the very first game to the most recent, with screenshots of all entries.
Total War has a two page spread devoted to it. Quite a few stats and quotes scattered about in little boxes, and a body of text giving an overview of how the games play and how the series has evolved. There's a table giving the top 10 ranked STW MP players, their clans and their scores. A Mike B quote is splashed across the centre of the section, it's a good one about games development being like a gulag, only without the nice guards and kindly environment.
It's RRP is £15.99, making it cheaper than the other varieties of Guinness BoR. My shop will be doing it for £9.99, and I expect most others will too.
Not seeing the attraction of the other varieties of Guinness BoR I expected this to be as unappealing. The flick through was interesting enough I might part with the £8 it would cost me to buy one.