Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008

My son (14) collects these books and always loves the random facts. He enjoys reading them. ThriftBooks is always a great seller of used books.

Guinness World Records is unique in that it was the first to certify all kinds of weird records. For example, Fastest Banana Eater. All the records are certified. Some records are continually broken. This book is the inspiration for the eating contests like the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating which is held every year on July 4th. Then there are records like the oldest verified human being. Sorry not Methusula. This book is published in many forms. I've owned many. Like the Almanac it's updated every year. This version is the 2008 Paperback Version. Small and compact but somewhat dificult to read but as far as I can tell all the records are included. If you want the hard copy or coffee table editions you'll have easier reading but will have to probably pay at least double the price.

My nine year old son ASKED Santa for this book for Christmas and was VERY excited to get it on Christmas morning. He loves the bright red sparkly cover and immediately placed his hands around his eyes and tried to squish them to the cover to see if it "glowed in the dark."The facts for the world records continue to be amazing and outrageous, just what any super energetic little boy wants to read and dream about in his youth. Perhaps on day I will see my son's name on one of those pages. The book is captivating, holds his rapt attention for long periods, which is difficult for almost anything to do, considering he is so impulsive, and rarely sits still for any length of time.My son and I recommend this book for any one who has a fascination for the facts of world records that people have personally managed to accomplish over the years past and present. The ideas people have come up with to decide to do to make a world record is also fascinating and amazing, and kind of like the wild frivolous law suits of the current era most of the world records are ones I would NEVER, COULD never imagine on my own, lol!

The GWR-GE 2008 is the company's first effort to bring together a book for computer gamers, showing gaming records and facts. As such, it's a good dip of the toes into the big wide world of gaming.The book itself is well presented. Not just a list of facts, it pleases the eye with easy-to-read double page spreads, boxes for additional information and plenty of graphics. One issue with the graphics - while they're mostly linked to the text, the references are not always easy to find and the order of the links is not clear.The book itself is fairly platform-agnostic. It's split into game categories, and after providing an overview of the category history details some of the games in each category. This is where it starts falling down, with some notable gaps. Under action-adventure we read about Colossal Caves but no mention is made of Zork. And where is the Kings Quest series? Under role-playing games the Ultima series is mentioned, but not Wizardry!The section on simulation games does at least mention Flight Simulator - but neglects the fact that combat flight simulators are an enormous market. And what about space combat? Nothing on Wing Commander, no X-Wing or anything else in this category.In racing games, the Need for Speed series is mentioned briefly but really deserves more space. Hands up if you've played chess against your computer? Well sorry, but it doesn't rate a mention in the puzzle and maze section - no Chessmaster, no Kasparov or any other champion-branded games.On the weird side, there's a section dedicated to "music games". Huh? These have been around for five minutes guys - surely there are better uses of this space.So, in summary: a nicely presented overview of gaming and gaming records, but hopefully the next edition will be more thorough.

At 8 and a half, my daughter is obsessed for whatever reason about this book and about 99 percent of the things in it. She keeps checking it out of her school's library so to see it wrapped up (thanks Amazon) under our tree was just exciting for her to say the least. Again, I don't know why, but this book I just have to give rave reviews because the light of my life can't get enough of it. The great colorful photos and large print adds to it all I'm pretty sure.

And I have found multiple typos and false information. For example on page 13 it states that Battle revolution came out in december... when in fact it came out on June 25th.On page 34 in top left where it says "FACTS" it has an extra "to" in there.. typo!on page 41 it says PSP slim "launched on Sep 5, 2007. According to Sony, as of March 2007, more than 25 million PSP units have shipped". How the hell could they announce that half a year before PSP slim came out?On Page 189 where it talks about Star Craft it states "Zerg's facial structure (3) was derived from dental X-rays of human skulls"... well if you look at picture labeled (3) it has the box cover.. which is a protoss not a zerg.Its ridiculous how many typos this thing has.. i dont even know if I should trust the numbers they give.. what if they are typos? 100,000 may not be a big deal... but 9 is right next to 0. and 190,000 is almost double the number.

I'm a gamer and I found most of the world records in this book to be very interesting. I'd say if you're a gamer that chances are great you'll enjoy this. If you're not much of a gamer I'd stick to the regular Guinness Book of World Records, which are great.

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