{"id":254288,"date":"2024-08-14T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/meet-the-man-who-set-a-world-record-by-hooking-up-444-consoles-to-one-tv\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:24","slug":"meet-the-man-who-set-a-world-record-by-hooking-up-444-consoles-to-one-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/meet-the-man-who-set-a-world-record-by-hooking-up-444-consoles-to-one-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man who set a world record by hooking up 444 consoles to one TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chances are you\u2019ve got a couple of old video game consoles gathering dust in your closet right now. Would you be able to hook all of them up to your TV without some kind of adapter? Meet a guy who owns 444 game consoles and has them all hooked up to a single television, according to the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2024\/8\/gaming-is-serious-business-for-man-with-444-consoles-hooked-up-to-one-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Guinness Book of World Records;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Guinness Book of World Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Al-Nasser of Riyadh holds a Guinness World Record for <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/764404-most-gaming-consoles-connected-to-a-single-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the most video game consoles hooked up to a single television;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the most video game consoles hooked up to a single television<\/a>. His collection includes some of the classics such as the first Sony PlayStation, the Nintendo 64 and (his personal favorite) the Sega Genesis, complete with the 32x and Sega CD expansions. He also owns and can play games on those handheld plug-and-play consoles with arcade classics like <em>Ms. Pac-Man <\/em>and <em>Dig Dug<\/em> that you find in Target, classic and modern handhelds like the Hyperkin SuperBoy and obscure consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"35beaecc-ea85-52cf-ad97-d5ec826091fc\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLaTSb8k518?si=N3eJSbhJzOWdAfpG\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"Most Gaming Consoles Connected to a TV - Guinness World Records\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLaTSb8k518?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Al-Nasser uses a series of switchers to play each console on a single screen. He keeps track of their location and powering procedure on an Excel spreadsheet. He\u2019s even organized his collection so the cables aren\u2019t showing or creating the kind of tangled mess most of us have to deal with when we have just two consoles hooked up to a single television.<\/p>\n<p>That may sound like a lot of video game consoles for one collection but it\u2019s far from the actual record. <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/largest-collection-of-playable-gaming-systems\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Linda Guillory of Garland, Texas;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Linda Guillory of Garland, Texas<\/a> currently holds the record for the largest collection of playable gaming systems with her collection of 2,430 items, according to Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/meet-the-man-who-set-a-world-record-by-hooking-up-444-consoles-to-one-tv-171848639.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chances are you\u2019ve got a couple of old video game consoles gathering dust in your closet right now. 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