Guinness fails again

You do realise Pac-man is also an Asian game, right?
 
lol...maybe I just fail.....


Still, wouldn't Mario be more identifiable as the videogame icon if they collected their statistics more properly?

I guess the point I was trying to make is that the Guiness Book of WORLD Records kinda fails for ignoring the world and just looking at the United States...
 
Verd1234 said:
lol...maybe I just fail.....


Still, wouldn't Mario be more identifiable as the videogame icon if they collected their statistics more properly?
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How would you know? Pac-man is incredibly recognizable too, besides the difference is just one percent on an incredible 94% recognition. 94% is ridiculous.

Verd1234 said:
I guess the point I was trying to make is that the Guiness Book of WORLD Records kinda fails for ignoring the world and just looking at the United States...
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Sure, though that's probably just a case of realism rather than wilful ignorance. After all, they do do other records (that don't involve opinion-polling) internationally.
 
I'm not at all surprised Pacman won.

I'd say a book of videogame "records" is fail by definition, but I don't see what's so bad about this specific instance, especially given what Sander mentioned. Just cause it's a book of "world records" doesn't mean that everything has to be polled internationally.

I'd rather say, the essence of fail is the "voted by readers" awards with not even a 15,000 sample size.
 
I'm betting that Mario will win in the long haul but Pac-Man is in no way a surprising choice. I agree that their polling in bumpkiss and their book of videogame records gives records to games which haven't actually achieved it. A quick example would be them giving Fallout 3 the award for the fastest selling videogame with the 4.7 million in a month, which is dead wrong.
 
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