Hideo Kojima Enters Guiness World Records

[Doc Evils]

Hideo Kojima, the internationally acclaimed games designer, was in London this week to receive his Guinness World Record certificates, as listed in the Guinness World Record: Gamer’s Edition 2008. His achievements are for Metal Gear, the first video game to fully utilize stealth as part of the gameplay and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of liberty, the biggest selling stealth game on Play Station 2.


Earlier adventure games had used elements of stealth, such as hiding and disguises, but Kojima’s creation Metal Gear was the first game to concentrate solely on these elements, effectively creating the “stealth game” sub-genre.

Keith Pullin, Editor of the Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008 book, was on hand to present the certificates and said ‘I would like to welcome Mr. Kojima to our family of gaming record breakers and we hope he breaks many more!’.

Kojima is the second videogame designer, after Firaxis Sid Meier, to get a Guinness World Record.

http://www.gamefocus.ca/?nav=new&nid=1095


Just goes to show how awesome Kojima is.

 

[Baki]

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Congrats to Kojima and another Koji-ton on his behalf. It only makes not being able to get his autograph on Monday even harder.

 

[bobtheduck]

In before "OMG WOLFENSTEIN!!"

As I say over and over and over, what he REALLY pioneered was the complex conspiratorial stories possible in video games. Metal gear with it's betrayals and twists and turns was truly the first of its kind.

 

[carocat]

I was quite excited by the thread title, but it's only the Gamers edition which if anyone has read is basically full of a lot of crap. I'm sure he eserves all that and more, just having something listed in the Gamer's edition isn't all that groundbreaking.