Guinness World Records: The Video Game
Encyclopedia
Guinness World Records: The Video Game is a video game based on the best-selling Guinness World Records
series of books with world records such as Sheep Shearing, Phone Book tearing, Airplane eating and growing the worlds longest fingernails. The game was released on November 7, 2008 in Europe and November 11, 2008 in North America
.
The game is about stamina and strength, and the main goal to create a new record of best time or score.
Guinness World Records: The Video Game was available for the Nintendo DS
and Wii
, then was later released for iPhone
and iPod Touch
.
Group which also includes Traveller's Tales
. The development of this game took place at the TT Fusion development offices in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Travellers Tales, together with TT Games
Publishing, were bought by Warner Brothers in November 2007. Also based in Knutsford, Travellers Tales were responsible for the hugely successful Lego Star Wars
, Lego Indiana Jones
and Lego Batman
video games.
TT Games
Publishing, as the name suggests, is the publishing arm of the TT Games
Group. Based in Burnham, Slough
, TT Games has two offices. One out of which the marketing and production takes place, known as “The Cottage” and another where the QA and testing of all the games in development takes place.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
series of books with world records such as Sheep Shearing, Phone Book tearing, Airplane eating and growing the worlds longest fingernails. The game was released on November 7, 2008 in Europe and November 11, 2008 in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
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Gameplay
Guinness World Records: The Video Game contains 36 mini-games all based on real world record attempts.The game is about stamina and strength, and the main goal to create a new record of best time or score.
Guinness World Records: The Video Game was available for the Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS
The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
and Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
, then was later released for iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
and iPod Touch
IPod Touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
.
Development
Guinness World Records: The Video Game was developed by TT Fusion, which is a subdivision of the TT GamesTT Games
TT Games group is a British video game developer and publisher. It is made up of three divisions, Traveller's Tales, TT Fusion and publisher TT Games Publishing...
Group which also includes Traveller's Tales
Traveller's Tales
Traveller's Tales is an English software house founded in 1989 and fully established in 1990 and based in Knutsford, Cheshire.It is part of the TT Games group—after the merger of publisher Giant Interactive and the developer Traveller's Tales—along with TT Games Publishing...
. The development of this game took place at the TT Fusion development offices in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Travellers Tales, together with TT Games
TT Games
TT Games group is a British video game developer and publisher. It is made up of three divisions, Traveller's Tales, TT Fusion and publisher TT Games Publishing...
Publishing, were bought by Warner Brothers in November 2007. Also based in Knutsford, Travellers Tales were responsible for the hugely successful Lego Star Wars
Lego Star Wars
Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme that incorporates the Star Wars saga. The first Lego Star Wars, released in 1999, included model 7140, the first Lego X-Wing. Star Wars was the first intellectual property to be licensed in Lego Group history . The first few sets based on the original trilogy were...
, Lego Indiana Jones
Lego Indiana Jones
Lego Indiana Jones is a Lego theme based on the Indiana Jones film franchise, licensed from Lucasfilm. The exclusive franchise was first announced in June 2007, and followed the successful Lego Star Wars franchise, also with Lucasfilm...
and Lego Batman
Lego Batman
Lego Batman is a theme and product range of the Lego construction toy, introduced in 2006, based on the superhero character Batman, under license from DC Comics. The sets feature vehicles, characters and scenes from the comics and films. The inspirations for the design of these varies widely...
video games.
TT Games
TT Games
TT Games group is a British video game developer and publisher. It is made up of three divisions, Traveller's Tales, TT Fusion and publisher TT Games Publishing...
Publishing, as the name suggests, is the publishing arm of the TT Games
TT Games
TT Games group is a British video game developer and publisher. It is made up of three divisions, Traveller's Tales, TT Fusion and publisher TT Games Publishing...
Group. Based in Burnham, Slough
Slough
Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town straddles the A4 Bath Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London...
, TT Games has two offices. One out of which the marketing and production takes place, known as “The Cottage” and another where the QA and testing of all the games in development takes place.