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It's no longer satisfying simply holding a video game high-score. If you really want to make a mark as a gamer, you'll have to go after a world record. We'd be surprised, however, if any of these massive video game records were surpassed any time soon. After all, the bigger they are, they harder they are to break.



Longest time spent playing a massively-multiplayer online game
700 days playing Runescape

Between November 2004 and October 2009, Sarah Lhadi spent over 9 hours a day exploring massively-multiplayer game Runescape. That's nearly two full years worth of continuous, nonstop play.


Largest playable environment in a video game

Fuel -- 5560 square miles
Massive games like Fallout 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV might score headlines, but when it comes to sheer size, even these giants can't compare to 2009 racer Fuel. Its impossibly enormous amount of playable terrain makes it larger than many countries, including Jamaica and Lebanon.


Largest working Tetris game

15 stories - Delft University of Technology - 1995
It might not be the best-known version of the addictive puzzler, but there's never been a bigger one. Created by Dutch students, the massive game took place on 15 floors of the university's Electrical Engineering department.


Largest collection of Pokemon memorabilia

12,113
Lisa Courtney likes Pokemon more than you do. Way, way more. Built over the course of 13 years, the 21 year-old's monstrous collection of Poke-goodies is as cuddly as it is colorful. Since setting the record, it's broken the 13,000 mark.


Longest prison sentence for gaming

4 months - Faiz Chopdat
The next time you're asked to turn off a gizmo on a plane, do yourself a favor and just do it. Otherwise, you might up like Faiz Chopdat, who in September of 2002 was jailed for four months for incessantly playing Tetris on his cell phone during a flight to the U.K. Multiple warnings by the flight staff went unheeded, landing the gamer behind bars...and in the record books.


Largest in-game soundtrack

GTA IV
Assuming this doesn't include the likes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, it's easy to see how GTA IV snagged this record. Players can listen to over 218 licensed tracks while causing mischief on the streets of Liberty City.