To celebrate the launch of the Guinness World Records: Gamers Edition 2008, the first ever Guinness World Records book dedicated to gaming, Guinness is hosting a huge arcade gaming event at Barcade in Brooklyn, NY on April 10, 2008. The event invites all and sundry to prove their arcade gaming mettle for a chance to rewrite the record books.

All gamers 21 and older (bring your ID) can try their luck at breaking five different records…

Trying to break arcade records is certainly nothing new. Since the earliest days of arcade games, millions of quarters have been plunked into those boxy behemoths for the chance to flick a joystick and get a triad of initials forever burned into the top of the screen. Very few, however, have been lucky enough to get their high scores in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Making way to select theaters on August 17, 2007, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary about two gamers competing for the highest score in the classic arcade game, Donkey Kong. The film’s site gives a quick synopsis of the movie, which follows…

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