A video game collector from Saudi Arabia has set a Guinness World Record by connecting 444 unique consoles to a single TV.
While this sounds like an incredibly messy endeavor and a cable management crisis, Ibrahim Al-Nasser has his collection perfectly organized and tidied to the point where not a single cable shows. His collection, which spans video game history from the Magnavox Odyssey released in 1972 to the PlayStation 5 released in 2023, can be seen in the video below.
Al-Nasser uses an anthology of switchers and converters to have everything ready to go. His myriad consoles, computers, plug and play devices, and so on are all organized virtually in a spreadsheet, meaning when Al-Nasser decides to play the Nintendo 64 or the PlayStation 2 or the Atari 2600 he merely checks which switcher to active, presses the power button, and begins playing.
Ibrahim Al-Nasser from Saudi Arabia has connected over 400 different games consoles to one TV ? pic.twitter.com/n9ETwfpyI5
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"After a while I noticed I had a big stack of gaming consoles that I couldn't play," Al-Nasser said. "The TV ports are limited, and if I want to play, either I unplug the existing consoles or I keep everything and add more switchers and, of course, more converters as well."
Al-Nasser's favorite console, which he called the best of all time and forever more, is the Sega Genesis. But connecting it with modern consoles and even older consoles in one set up, and in a set up that looks clean and tidy, was no easy task.
"A very important thing: If you notice here, the cables [are] almost hidden," he said. "I used all the tools available on the market, everything available, in order to organize the cables. Also, to have a set up... It's not only to play, it's like a museum. That's why this set up and this record took too much time from me."
The collection, all housed in a single room, is joined by the hundreds of controllers required for these consoles, which are also organized and displayed neatly, alongside arcade cabinets, pinball machines, and, of course, the video games themselves.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
