These of us who gather basic recreation consoles and computer systems (this is you, AI reporter Benj Edwards) know the problem of retaining all that {hardware} not simply working however immediately accessible with a easy press of an influence button. Too usually, giant {hardware} collections find yourself languishing, boxed up on cabinets, or sitting unfastened and unconnected to a show for lengthy durations.
Saudi Arabia’s Ibrahim Al-Nasser grew bored with having that drawback together with his large gaming assortment, so he determined to hook 444 completely different gaming gadgets as much as a single TV, incomes a Guinness World File within the course of.
“After some time, I seen that I had an enormous stack of gaming consoles that I couldn’t play,” Al-Nasser stated in a video filmed by Guinness. “The TV ports are restricted, and if I wish to play, I both unplug the prevailing consoles or I am going to hold every part and add extra switchers and naturally extra converters as nicely. By including extra switchers, the thought got here to my thoughts to attach the entire gaming consoles I’ve to the TV, then contact Guinness World Data as a result of this mission is exclusive.”
Guinness says Al-Nasser makes use of “greater than 12” HDMI switchers (so… 13?) to maintain his assortment linked, in addition to “over 30” RCA switchers for pre-HD consoles (although some older consoles, like an N64 used within the video, apparently make use of converters for an HD connection). Whereas the HD consoles appear to mechanically change to the right enter when turned on, Al-Nasser makes use of an enormous spreadsheet to maintain observe of which button to push on which RCA switcher to attach the best cables.
Wait, there are 444 consoles?
Al-Nasser’s assortment appears fairly intensive, together with each frequent fashionable consoles and relative rarities just like the Asia-exclusive Tremendous A’Can. To get to a record-setting depend of 444, although, Al-Nasser needed to embrace a variety of non-traditional “recreation consoles,” together with low cost plug-and-play gadgets, mini-console re-releases, gaming computer systems, Android-based HDMI sticks, “consolized arcades,” and extra.
That is all adequate to depend for Guinness, which has confronted controversy for letting would-be document holders pay for an opportunity at glory. Within the gaming world, it famously eliminated after which reinstated Billy Mitchell’s scoring information amid a lawsuit menace.
Even when the {hardware} depend feels a bit inflated, Al-Nasser positively deserves credit score for retaining so many items of gaming {hardware} clear and well-organized with none of the sloppy cable litter you would possibly anticipate. “I exploit all of the instruments out there available in the market… to prepare the cables,” he stated. “It is like a museum, that is why it took an excessive amount of time for me [to organize].”
