Jimmy Fallon Sets Another Utterly Pointless Video Game Record
Posted by Kyle Orland at 12:00 PM Jul 29, 2010
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Fallon tasked himself with the almost ridiculously stupid task of playing ten distinct video game systems in 60 seconds. I say "ridiculously stupid" because there doesn't seem to be any quantifiable way to define "playing" a game, despite URDB's requirement that all records must be quantifiable.
Watch the video below the break, and you'll see Fallon barely "plays" most of the games he touches. In Halo, he simply spins around and shoots the wall a few times. In Crazy Taxi, he drives in reverse for a few seconds. In Tomb Raider, he does a couple of sidesteps. One wonders why he couldn't have simply tapped a button on all ten controllers in 15 seconds or so and broken the record with time to spare (as it stands, problems with the Wii remote left him with an official count of nine).
Perhaps I'm taking this too seriously, and asking too much of an unproven record-keeper like URDB. But the growing pointlessness of gaming records should be familiar to anyone who's picked up the official "Gamer's Edition" of Guiness' their popular world record books. Amidst actual records for high scores, technical firsts and unit sales, they've peppered in ridiculous non-records like "most critically divisive 2D shooter (Space Giraffe)" and "healthiest video game ever (Dance Dance Revolution)." Say what you will about Twin Galaxies, but they don't include records like that.
Apologies if I am the only person in the world that this is bothering, but I just had to get this pet peeve out there. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming of funny videos and photoshop jobs.
[Via Kotaku]
