today in 2024, Guinness announced a world record for most gaming consoles connected to a single TV.
The total? 444!
I didn’t know there were that many consoles!
And remember, they’re all connected to the same one TV!
It’s all the work of the same one gamer: Ibrahim Al-Nasser of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Like a lot of serious video game fans, he started collecting console after console so he could play all of his favorite games.
His collection starts with the first ever video game console, the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, all the way to the Switches and Playstations and XBoxes people use today.
But no matter how many consoles a player has, the TV only has so many places to plug those consoles in.
Al-Nasser didn’t want to have to switch consoles in and out of his gaming setup, so he came up with a plan to connect them all.
In my classic gaming days I connected my two or three systems to a switcher that connected to my TV; if I wanted the Super Nintendo I’d push the first button on the switcher, and when I wanted the Playstation I’d switch it over to the second position.
Al-Nasser’s got like four or five dozen switchers, from modern HDMI routing to really old-school adapters.
All of those switches connect to the TV, or maybe they connect to additional switches?
The setup is so complicated that its owner had to build a spreadsheet so he could refer back to each system’s signal path.
But maybe the most impressive part of all of this is that he found ways to organize all of the cables coming out of all those machines.
The setup looks more like a museum of video games than a diehard player’s home base.
Maybe there should be a world record for the most organized set of video game console cords in the world?
This Friday, at Georgia Tech University, it’s The Great Cardboard Boat Race.
Teams get an hour to build a canoe, mostly out of cardboard and (what else) duct tape.
Then, a team member has to paddle that homegrown boat across the pool at the school’s aquatic center.
Guy Plugs A Record-Breaking 444 Video Game Consoles Into A Single TV (Kotaku)
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