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Gaming is serious business for man with 444 consoles hooked up to one TV

www.guinnessworldrecords.com Gaming is serious business for man with 444 consoles hooked up to one TV

Ibrahim Al-Nasser (KSA) has the most gaming consoles connected to a single TV with 444.

Ibrahim Al-Nasser, a gaming enthusiast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has set a Guinness World Record for the most video game consoles connected to a single television, with 444 systems hooked up simultaneously.

Al-Nasser's collection spans five decades of gaming history, from the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey to the 2023 PlayStation 5 Slim. It includes mainstream consoles like the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch, as well as rare items such as the Super A'Can. To manage the complex setup, Al-Nasser employs over 30 RCA switchers and 12 HDMI switchers, along with various converters for older systems. He maintains an Excel spreadsheet detailing the location and activation procedure for each console. "After a while I noticed that I had a big stack of gaming consoles that I couldn't play," Al-Nasser said. "By adding more switchers, the idea came to my mind to connect all of the gaming consoles I have to the TV then contact Guinness World Records because this project is unique."

Engadget adds:

He's even organized his collection so the cables aren't 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. That may sound like a lot of video game consoles for one collection but it's far from the actual record. Linda Guillory of Garland, Texas currently holds the record for the largest collection of playable gaming systems with her collection of 2,430 items, according to Guinness World Records.

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I have a PS5, a Switch, and a Chromecast connected to my TV, and that's already a hellish rat's nest of cables. I'd love to see his cable management.
- Sega Genesis, 32X + SegaCD enters the chat..
- i dont even have cable management i just swap them between plugged in and sitting somewhere
- I have a Wii U, a Super Famicom mini, an Apple TV and an Xbox One S (effectively only a bluray player) below my TV and they are never all hooked up at the same time. I have an HDMI switcher somewhere but who has the time. This guy apparently!

"What would you like to play Ibrahim?"
"I don't know, nothing"

Interesting to note that he says the Sega Genesis is his number one console.
- Huge variety for the time and some very unique games. General Chaos

ITT: Everyone will flex over how much crap they have plugged into their TV.
I thought I had game(s) compared to this dude. Apparently I do not. I have only 16 systems and 1 PC plugged into my TV, across two composite switchers and a Component Multi-Cable of Doom. And 4 HDMI inputs.

I can appreciate the setup and dedication. However, I feel it falls flat when the older consoles are output to a LCD/LED/OLED display and not to a CRT.
- look up youtube videos about the Retrotink 4k and the OSSC, there's a whole world of technology designed to fix this exact problem
  
  Oh right I forgot about that, never mind then
- It's either that or playing your PS5 in 480p
  
  I remember back when my nephew first got a PS3 and all of the TV's in the household at that point were analog standard def. It was at that exact moment that we discovered that Metal Gear Solid 4 is essentially unplayable at standard def because some of the menu text is then too tiny to be readable. The more you know.
- What's the largest CRT they had? I know those rear projection DLP TVs in the early 00s were 60" and flat screen/16:9. But I'm not sure they were CRT?

man is living my childhood dream

Man the days of daisy chaining and rf amplifiers.
Oh btw something down deep inside the rats' nest is set to channel 4 not 3 good luck. Fuck.
- Oh btw something down deep inside the rats' nest is set to channel 4 not 3 good luck. Fuck.
  That would be a terrible prank to pull 😆

Didn't Guinness records require the recipient to pay for the award?
- For Group awards, yes for sure. Not sure for individual.

Just use emulators and a single pc. :p
- At 444 consoles there's a real chance he may have some consoles hooked up that have no emulator due to their rarity or some unique, hard-to-reproduce characteristic.
  
  I would not doubt he has quite a few pre-cartridge dedicated machines such as early Pong style consoles (even Nintendo made one, way back when) which can be completely hardware based, sometimes even analog, and thus don't actually have any software to run on an emulator.
- No

If this man doesn't have a need for an input matrix, I don't know who would.

Not all heroes wear capes

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