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Contents 1 Game feature records 2 Game release records 3 Character appearance records 4 Firsts 4.1 Technical firsts 4.2 Genre firsts 4.3 Sales firsts 4.4 Character, Story & Setting firsts 4.5 Controversial firsts 5 Sales records 5.1 Best-selling 5.2 Fastest-selling 6 Game reception records 6.1 All-time rankings 6.2 Genre best 7 Miscellaneous records 7.1 Non-game adaptations 7.2 Professional gaming 7.3 Gamers 7.4 Other records 8 References

[edit] Game feature records

Subject	Record	Game	Year
Most voice actors	861, of which 174 for named characters	Grand Theft Auto IV	2008
Most cars available	936	Gran Turismo 5	2005
Most licensed sound tracks	214 songs	Grand Theft Auto IV	2008
Most licensed sound tracks (non-radio)	90 songs across 9 genres	Project Gotham Racing	2001
Longest cut scene	15 minutes, 17 seconds	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots	2008
Most swearing	189 uses of the word "fuck"[1]	The House of the Dead: Overkill	2009
The largest playable environment in a console game	5,560 square miles (14,400 square km)[2]	Fuel	2009

[edit] Game release records

Subject	Record	Game	Year
Most ported video game	59 game platforms	Tetris	1985
Most official and unofficial variants	40+	Tetris	1985
Most expensive game production	$100 million	Grand Theft Auto IV	2008
Most controversial video game series	Over 4,000 news stories in the US regarding controversy	Grand Theft Auto	1997

[edit] Character appearance records

Subject	Record	Game	Year
Most appearances in a video game	116 (200+ including remakes and rereleases)	Mario	1983
Most cameo appearances in other video games	38 (non-playable cameo's only)[3]	The Legend of Zelda-series	1986

[edit] Firsts

This is a list of the first video game or video game console to do or feature something. There is not a clear definition of the first video game to list here. For more information about the first video game, see the article First video game.

[edit] Technical firsts

First	Game/console	Year
...video game console	Magnavox Odyssey	1975
...game with cooperative gameplay (turn-based)	Dungeon	1975
...game with in-game advertising	Adventureland	1978
...game with animated cut scenes	Donkey Kong	1981
...game console to offer downloadable content	Intellivision with the PlayCable	1981
...game with cooperative gameplay (simultaneous)	Joust	1982
...3-dimensional arcade game	I, Robot	1984
...console game to have a save option	The Legend of Zelda	1986
...3-dimensional console game	Alpha Waves	1990
...game console to offer online gaming	Nintendo Entertainment System with the Teleplay Modem	1992
...console game with 3-dimensional sprites	Star Fox	1993
...game with a deathmatch mode	Doom	1993
...game with interactive cut scenes	Die Hard Arcade	1996
...game with dynamic in-game advertising	SWAT 4	2005

[edit] Genre firsts

First	Game/console	Year
...Adventure game	Colossal Cave Adventure	1976
...Platform game	Frogs	1978
...Action-adventure game	Adventure	1979
...Fighting game	Warrior	1979
...Stealth game	005	1981
...Music video game	Kawasaki Synthesizer	1983
...3D Platform game	Alpha Waves	1990
...Survival horror game	Alone in the Dark	1992
...Advergame	Zool	1992
...cel-shaded video game	Jet Set Radio	2000

[edit] Sales firsts

First	Game/console	Year
...game to sell more than 1 million copies (port)	Space Invaders (Atari 2600-version)	1978
...game to sell more than 1 million copies (original)	Adventure	1979
...game to sell more than 10 million copies	Super Mario Bros.	1985
...game franchise to sell more than 100 million copies	Mario	1981
...game console to sell more than 50 million copies	Nintendo Entertainment System	1985
...game console to sell more than 100 million copies	Game Boy	1989
...game home console to sell more than 100 million copies	PlayStation 2	2000
...game console to sell more than 1 million copies in the United States in one year	Wii	2007
...game publisher to sell more than 1 billion games	Nintendo	2007

[edit] Character, Story & Setting firsts

First	Game/console	Year
...Christian video game (licensed)	Music Machine	1983
...game to feature an original black game character	Mike Tyson's Punch-Out	1987
...Christian video game (original)	Bible Adventures	1991
...game to feature an original playable black game character	Super Street Fighter II	1993

[edit] Controversial firsts

First	Game/console	Year
...controversial game	Death Race	1976
...game to contain explicit nudity and sexual acts	Custer's Revenge	1982
...game to receive a "Mature" rating from the ESRB	Doom	1993
...game to use the word "homosexual" to describe a character	The Orion Conspiracy	1995
...game to use the word "fuck" uncensored	The Orion Conspiracy	1995
...game to be denied a BBFC classification and effectively being banned in the UK	Carmageddon	1997
...,and only, racist video game	Ethnic Cleansing	2002
...,and only, extreme sports video game to be censored	BMX XXX	2002

[edit] Sales records

[edit] Best-selling

Record	Game/console	Year	Sales
...video game console	PlayStation 2	2000	140 million
...handheld game console	Game Boy	1989	118.69 million
...console manufacturer	Nintendo	1983	506.99 million
...video game (bundled with console)	Wii Sports	2006	40.5 million
...video game (not bundled)	Wii Play	2005	24.43 million
...game mod	Counter-Strike	1999 (mod) / 2000 (retail)	10.7 million
...video game on the PC	The Sims	2002	16 million
...video game on a Nintendo console (bundled with console)	Wii Sports	2006	40.5 million
...video game on a Nintendo console (not bundled)	Wii Play	2005	24.43 million
...video game on a PlayStation console	Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec	2001	14.89 million (shipped)
...video game on a Xbox console	Halo 2	2004	9 million
...video game on a Sega console	Sonic the Hedgehog 2	1992	6 million (shipped)
...video game franchise	Mario	1981	201 million

[edit] Fastest-selling

Fastest-selling...	Game/console	Year	Record at	Current sales
...game console	Wii	2006	20 million	44.96 million
...video game	Modern Warfare 2	2009	4.7 million	+5 million

[edit] Game reception records

Aggregate review scores

Best...	Game	GR	MC	MG	Average score
...game of all time	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	97.613	99	95	97.2
...7th generation game	Grand Theft Auto IV	96.92	98	96	96.97
...6th generation game	Soulcalibur	96.26	98	96	96.75
...casual game (by core game review media)	Plants vs. Zombies	89.5	88	88	89

[edit] All-time rankings

#	Game	Year	Average score
1	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	1998	97.2
2	Grand Theft Auto IV	2008	96.97
3	Super Mario Galaxy	2007	96.76
4	Soulcalibur	1999	96.75
5	Metroid Prime	2002	96.42
6	Uncharted 2: Among Thieves	2009	96.13
7	Resident Evil 4	2005	95.92
8	Halo: Combat Evolvedanus	2001	95.81
9	The Orange Box	2007	95.68
10	Grand Theft Auto III	2001	95.64

[edit] Genre best

Genre	Game	Year	Average score
Platform game	Super Mario Galaxy	2007	96.76
Adventure game	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	1998	97.2
Action-adventure game	Grand Theft Auto IV	2008	96.97
First-person shooter	Halo: Combat Evolved	2001	95.81
Third-person shooter	Resident Evil 4	2005	95.92
Fighting Game	Soulcalibur	1999	96.75
Role-playing game	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic	2003	94.06
Racing game	Gran Turismo	1997	95.24

[edit] Miscellaneous records

[edit] Non-game adaptations

• Super Mario Bros. was the first live action movie based on a video game.
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is the most successful movie based on a video game, grossing $274,703,34 in cinemas worldwide.
• Alone in the Dark is the least successful movie based on a video game, grossing just $5,178,569 in US cinemas, while production costs were around $20 million.
• The first video game to inspire a ballet was Dragon Quest.
• Lara Croft is the video game character with the most real life stand-ins: 9.

[edit] Professional gaming

• SK Gaming was the first gaming clan to legally bind their players to the clan.
• At the of age 6, Victor De Leon aka Lil Poison became the Youngest Professional Video Gamer in the World.

[edit] Gamers

• The largest audience for a video game performance was achieved when Lyndon Jones and Renos Georgiou played Guitar Hero III at the Give It a Name-festival in London on May 11, 2008 in front of 9,600 people.
• The Longest Prison Sentence for Playing a Video Game, was given to Faiz Chopdat from the United Kingdom in September 2002, who was jailed for four months for playing Tetris on his cell phone while on a flight to Manchester, England. He refused to stop playing after being repeatedly warned by the cabin staff.

[edit] Other records

• PlayStation has got the most variations of video game hardware, namely 28 (34 including developer units).
• Pokémon was the first game to get its own theme park, Poképark.

[edit] References

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