The longest title for a game in the fighting genre is Bakumatsu Roman Dai Ni Maku: Gekka no Kenshi – Tsuki ni Saku Hana, Chiri Yuku Hana (SNK, 1998) which is an impressive 67 charactes without spaces. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011 The name translates to “Romance of the Bakumatsu Act II: Swordsman of the Moonlight – On the Moon a Flower Blooming, a Petal Falling.”
The longest speech ever given to the UN was delivered in 1957 by the Indian politician VK Krishna Menon, who talked for nearly eight hours while defending India’s position on Kashmir.
The longest period between the release of a movie-licensed game and the film on which it is based is a staggering 51 years. In 1940, Disney released their classic animation Fantasia (USA). In 1991, over five decades later, Sega released Fantasia for their Mega Drive/Genesis platform.
The longest wait for a director’s cut of a videogame is 12 years 129 days, the time taken between the release of for Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars on 5 November 1996 and its updated ‘Director”s Cut’ for the Apple App store in March 2009. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The Reconquista—the series of campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula to recover the region from the Islamic Moors—began in 718 and continued intermittently for 774 years until 1492, when Granada, the last Moorish stronghold, was finally conquered.
Strengths, at nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
Oðblgshezi (pronounced oth-bleg-SHEH-zi) is a “language” based on English words that can be typed with the digits of a calculator. “Letters” are keyed in and the words read by turning the calculator upside down. The longest words using the nine available letters from traditional English alphabet (I, Z, E, h, S, G, L, B and O) are ILLEGIBLE and EGGShELLS; however, the language’s creators have introduced a 10th letter – the Anglo Saxon eth or ð, using the numeral 9) – to present a TH
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Lengthy concatenations and some compound, agglutinative and nonce words can be written in the closed-up style of a single word. The longest known example is a compound ‘word’ of 195 Sanskrit characters (transliterating to 428 letters in the Roman alphabet) describing the region near Kanci, Tamil Nadu, India, which appears in a 16th-century work by Tirumalãmbã, Queen of Vijayangara.
The longest-running series of instrument-based games is GuitarFreaks, which first appeared in arcades in 1999. The most recent version, GuitarFreaks V7 , released in March 2010, was the 19th instalment in the series and features 500 songs. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
EA’s NHL series began with NHL Hockey, which was released in August 1991 for the SEGA Genesis and was considered to be the most realistic hockey game of its time. The game’s phenomenal success has sparked 19 annual iterations up to 2009’s NHL 10 and the series shows no sign of slowing down yet. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010