Your! A black woman was named the winner of not one, but two world records for the largest collection of LCD and playable gaming systems, and my mind shines with joy.
According to the numbers, Linda Guillory’s two world records come from her collection of 1,599 LCD gaming systems and 2,430 playable gaming systems. And today, Guinness world records announced Guillory of Richardson, Texas, who has received two awards for their huge collection of thousands of handheld, tabletop, and even watch-based gaming systems
These are not game systems as we think of consoles and handhelds today, but more like the Tiger Electronic handhelds of yore. Guilllory’s collection also includes traditional video games. In Guinness’ profile video, Guillory points out a huge cabinet of old video games and says she owns every game Nintendo released in North America.
According to Guinness, Guillory started collecting games when he was eight and found one broken in 1979 Red cone basketball game. In the video, she said she took the handheld apart and repaired it herself so she could play again. She collected a small collection of games until a house fire destroyed some of them. Later, after talking to her brother about who the better player was, she decided to look up some of the old games she once owned to see if there were any left. She found her lover and bought her Pac-Man Table machine, and from then on her collection began to grow.
“I wanted to see if I could beat my high score,” Guillory told Guinness. “When I searched, I saw dozens of games that as a kid I always wanted but never had.”
I felt that. On the rare occasions that I was allowed to visit a friend’s house, there were often times when I pressed my face to their Nintendo 64 consoles to bask in awe of something outside of mine Range was. I would look jealously at their game collections, knowing I only had one or two for the systems I was allowed to have. I missed so many games that players would consider “required” today. As I read Guillory talking about the games she missed but wished for, my heart turned with compassion.
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That she’s also black makes my appreciation for her so much stronger. Black women in gaming are sometimes treated as a novelty, the result of the relatively new pursuit of diversity and inclusion. We’re excited when “new” Black women walk in because we’re so very rare, but we barely know the people who were here before us. As for many black female gamers (and female gamers of a certain age in general), the few video game “elders” I had were men. I am 33 years old. I only know one black woman older than me who plays video games. I know there are more. I just don’t know her. Finding Mrs. Guillory is like discovering a hidden treasure, something long sought but seldom found. I would like to know more about her story.
Guillory, an electrical engineer, wants to sharee express their enthusiasm for playing with children and teach them how to create their own play systems. She also hopes to be able to keep her collection in a museum.
What impressed me the most is that many of Guillory’s games, although old, seem okay. And she knows how to play it. Because of the fragility and rarity of collections like this one, I’ve always imagined that the items were meant for shows and not for use. But in the video she casually plucked Toytronic Then a football game out of the box started playing, wondering aloud if she still “had” it. She did.
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