With five commercially released games for Nintendo DS and three Japan-only Game Boy Advance titles, the Ace Attorney franchise boasts more entries than any other handheld point n click adventure game series. However, the hugely successful Professor Layton series appears to be a likely contender for this record in the near future, with four releases over the last three years. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010

The most expensive game ever made available on the App Store was Alchemize (Schiau Studios, 2009), which was briefly available for $39.99 (£25) in October 2009 before being dropped back to a more reasonable $2.99 (£1.88). Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011

The highest amount of money paid for a London to Brighton Run veteran (i.e. pre-1905) car is ?3,521,500 ($7,242,916) for the world’s oldest surviving Rolls-Royce, numbered 20154. The two-seater, 10-hp car, manufactured by the Rolls-Royce factory in Manchester, UK in 1904, was sold by Bonhams to an anonymous British collector in London, UK, on 3 December 2007. The car also holds the record for a Rolls-Royce at auction and car of British manufacture at auction. Brass Era Car – beginning with the first horseless carriages, Continue reading →

At a cost of $130 million (including marketing costs) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was the most expensive video game-inspired movie ever made. Released in 2001 by Columbia Pictures, it recouped just $32 million at the US box office, meaning it was also one of the least successful video game-inspired movies ever made. Lastly, the film was the first computer-generated animated movie with photorealistic characters. GWR Video Gamer’s Edition 2008, title: Most expensive video-game inspired movie.

An 1847 letter to wine merchants in Bordeaux, franked with the 1d and 2d first issues of Mauritius was bought by an anonymous buyer in less than a minute for CHF6,123,750 ($4,075,165 / £2,811,639) at a sale conducted by Geneva-based auctioneer David Feldman (Ireland) at the Hotel International in Zürich, Switzerland on 3 November 1993.

The most expensive home flight simulator cockpit belongs to Australian trucking tycoon Matthew Sheil who has spent the last eight years constructing a flight simulator cockpit based round the 747-400. The project to date has cost $300,000 dollars (£132,000) and features 12 computers controlling motion, audio and the flight simulator game itself. The motion is provided by a hydraulic system fitted to the cockpit, and visuals are provided by a projector for the front view and two LCD monitors for the side views.

A Hong Kong based investor paid US$2.1 million (?1.3 million) on 28 June 2008 for a lunch date with Warren Buffett, the world’s richest man. Zhao Danyang (Hong Kong) enjoyed a meal for himself and seven friends accopmanied by Mr. Buffett at Smith & Wollensky’s steakhouse in New York. All proceeds from the auction went to a charity which helps the poor and homeless in San Francisco. Warren Buffett is an American investor and the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

The most expensive man-made object is the International Space Station its final cost will be over $100 billion (£66.7 billion).

The most expensive music single sold at auction is a rare seven-inch copy of unreleased 1965 single Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) by Frank Wilson (USA). It sold for £25,742 ($39,294) to a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. Seller Kenny Burrell, a DJ and record collector stated that he was selling his copy in order to gain credibility as a record expert.

A lithograph depicting Houdini´s famous Water Torture Cell escape, printed by Strobridge (USA) in 1914, was sold to David Copperfield (USA) for US$55,000 (£29,930), excluding buyers premium of 15%, by CRG Auctions in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA during the sale of the Sidney H. Radner Collection on 30 October 2004. The poster measures 1 x 2.79 m (3 ft 4.5 in x 9 ft 2 in). During an auction sale at Christies, London, UK, on on 25 May 2000, a lithograph printed by Dangerfield (UK) Continue reading →