Our very own Pete Curulli is literally spitting chips with the news that he is actually not the world’s greatest collector of video games.
Alas… a bloke from Texas can lay claim to the record, if a little organisation known as the Guinness Book of World Records is anything to go by.
They published an article claiming that Antonio Monteiro of the U S and A has the world’s largest collection, a whopping 20,139 games in his booty.
They even went to the trouble of documenting what he had:
- More than 1,000 PlayStation 1 games
- Complete PlayStation 2 collection for North America
- Complete PlayStation 3 collection for North America
- More than 900 PlayStation 4 games
- Every PS Vita game released to-date in North America
- Complete PSP collection for North America
- Complete Xbox collection for North America
- Complete Xbox 360 collection for North America
- More than 500 Xbox One games
- Complete collection of Wii U games for North America
- Complete Game Cube collection for North America
- Complete Wii collection for North America
- 118 Nintendo Switch games
- Turbografx games
- Super Famicom games – equivalent of the Super Nintendo for Japanese/European marketplace
- Complete Sega Dreamcast collection for North America
- Complete collection of 32X
- Complete Atari Jaguar System collection for North America
- Atari Lynx, complete collection of retail releases for North America
- Complete collection of SEGA CD games for North America
- Japanese Saturn games
- Japanese Dreamcast games
- Complete Game Boy collection for North America
- Complete Game Boy Color collection for North America
- Complete Game Boy Advance collection for North America
- More than 1,100 Nintendo DS games
- Every Neo Geo Pocket game released in North America
- Nintendo 64 collection
- Atari and Gauge games
- SEGA PICO games
- Complete collection of NES games for North America including unlicensed games
That’s definitely for the win!
Apparently Antonio can even narrow it down to a fave game… Castlevania IV, which he apparently described as a masterpiece.
Not to be deterred, Pete has vowed to up the ante with regards to his own collection… he only has around 20,000 or so games to go 😉
Written by: @dantheinternut
