586 People Playing DS Earns Them a World Record

Nice for them that they broke a record, although the record of "Largest Handheld Game Console Party" is a stupid idea for a record in my opinion.

Wow. @MrPanic- I definitely agree. What genius thought that up?

@Raylax Photos or adjudicators say no.

@MrPanic I agree.

Doesn't your camera have a timer function?

If anyone is going to Toronto in late August for Fan Expo 2010, there is a good chance we could try to break that record if we can get at least 1,000 visitors playing the DS(i) at the same time.

Awesome expo, sadly I went along on the Sunday, so I missed this attempt. still, I had good fun.

To bad there is no DS(i) game that will let 381 or 586 gamers link to play together.

What is the most that can link something like 8 for Mario Kart and something like 16 for brain age calculation.

I wonder if they even had 16 people linked together in such large group of gamers in one place.

Awesome!

Awesome! i like the tag, Wowza

Can't believe there are people out there that actually keep track of these sort of things. Crazy if you ask me.

@10

that doesn't count because Brain Age/Training isn't what I consider to be a real game. XD

I know Tetris DS can have up to ten players going at once via download play. I'm not sure how many people can be in the union room at once on DPPtHgSs...

I can beat that, it is just basicly who can find the most people then make them play a ds.

@SoulSilver IV

I think there can be up to 16 players in the Union Room, which even goes back to FireRed and LeafGreen (and Emerald)

Basically what MrPanic said. It's cool, but WHY?!?!

cause you can earn a world record for almost anything nowadays.

i wore 100 pairs of underwear, i get a world record!

...all they would need to do is ask all attendees of this year's E3 to bring their portables, get someone from Guinness there and bam, record crushed, would it even need to be the same handheld to be considered the largest game console party?

@Raylax: Your comment reminded me of the guy that got shot with a record number of paintballs only to find out it doesn't stand because there wasn't an official there to witness it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcQU5yYuCU

Believe it or not, that's the video I recorded in the attempt. I don't know about what the majoritory of people were playing, though there were many people playing different versions of Pokemon. I played Bangai-O Spirits and the guy sitting next to me was playing a shoot 'em up. I also remember 8 people were removed from the count for not playing on their DS (and one guy tried to use a hand drawn and cut-out DS). I couldn't record the entire event of course because we all had to play for 10 minutes non-stop.