Ref: Irvington man seeks MONOPOLY on Guinness World Record title

Even though one knows there are many weird records booked in the Guinness World Record, I have not yet thought about the existence of a record measuring number of games collected. According to the news, there was an old record of 868 titles. This record has just been broken by Brian Arnett with 1345 titles.

Brian Arnet in Irvington claimed his record under the witness of some public officials. The figure 1345 and his picture showing the games packed in a room should be very impressive to the general public. Nonetheless, this news receives huge amount of responses from the gaming community. Being a game collector with more 500 games already in Hong Kong, I am pretty sure to say 1345 is far from the real largest collection indeed. With the aid of the gaming community website Boardgamegeek.com, statistics told us that there are far more collectors around the world having more than 1345 games in his/her personal collection. And the largest collection from a single person includes multiples of this "world" record.