when it comes to gaming we've all been guilty of staying up late but mashing on a school day throwing our controllers in Rage or spending far too much money on micro transactions and moments like this it's easy to feel like you've gone too far however the average Gamers Antics are nothing compared to the community's most obsessive extreme and flat out insane members who push video games to their limits in incredible and sometimes unsettling ways so today we're going to look at these Gamers checking out the craziest controllers most unbelievable tactics and the strangest setups as we look at the people who take gaming way too far [Music] till DS do us part from Pac-Man to Master Chief the gaming industry is home to some of the most iconic characters in modern media and Gamers can form a pretty close connection with the heroes in their favorite games this relationship is generally harmless but back in 2009 a romantic gamer decided to take things to the next level by Falling in Love with a video game character and marrying her love plus is a Japanese exclusive dating simulator created by Konami that allows players to go on dates with digital women on their Nintendo DS when a gamer who goes by sal9000 first started playing the game in 2009 he immediately fell in love with a character called Nene and agasaki an anime style lasts with a love for horror movies and raccoons Sal has described n a as his dream woman noting how the game changes her personality to his liking as he whispers sweet nothings into her ear through the DS's microphone luckily for sale it isn't hard to sweep a DS off its feet and before long his relationship with Nene became more serious prompting him to get down on one knee and marry the character or in more practical terms marry the DS and the game cartridge inside it I guess traditionally the Father of the Bride pays for the wedding but in this case Sal had to do it himself coughing up the cash to buy a tux hire a DJ and create a slideshow that showed the highlights of their relationship when the wedding was over Sal kissed the screen before taking Nene back to their marital home and well I don't want to know what they could have two on their honeymoon unfortunately the wedding wasn't legally binding but Sal doesn't care stating that the ceremony was simply a celebration of his love for the character and a promise to love her till death do them part hey even if Nene does die she can just respawn geriatric gamer it might not seem like a long time ago but when you look back at 2016 it feels like we were all living in a completely different world Donald Trump was yet to begin his presidency I still had a full head of hair and the entire planet was taken over with the urge to catch them all as 260 million people downloaded Pokemon go onto their phones Pokemon go is currently the third most played mobile game of all time however you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who loves it more than Chen San Juan this 74 year old uses a custom bike to play the game on 72 phones at once since 2016 when his grandson introduced him to Pokemon go Chen has been obsessed with catching the rarest pocket monsters in the game using countless devices to maximize his chances he spends his free time cycling around new Taipei City Taiwan catching as many Pokemon as possible and you can imagine all transmones use a lot of electricity and unfortunately he can't use the Pikachus he catches to charge them up as a result his bike is fitted with a heavy duty power pack that keeps them charged letting him stay out on the streets all day he estimates that he spends one thousand dollars a month on the hobby using the cash to keep the phones topped up with internet data and purchasing at Pokeballs and power-ups Chen used to play Pokemon go every day but tragically he suffered from a stroke in 2022 forcing him to take a six-month break from the game luckily though Chen recovered and has started playing again though unfortunately he's had to strip back his Contraption as he can only handle 25 bones at once that's still 25 times more impressive than the average player though and I think it's fair to say when it comes to playing Pokemon go Chen is the very best like no one ever was C sharp shooting if you turn up the volume while playing Call of Duty you'll generally hear nothing but gunfire explosions in a platoon of 12 year olds insulting your mom however in 2021 this all changed when the game became associated with another sound the recorder [Music] most of us associate the recorder with cacophonus Renditions in elementary school like this [Music] yes but in 2021 a twitch streamer called dinobino went viral for using a recorder to play Call of Duty Warzone and Dinos hands the Recorder's shrill notes became the sounds of death and destruction as he rained down Hellfire one two at a time [Music] oh the viral footage is incredible and the unique gaming setup required some clever preparation as Dino plays the recorder into his microphone a piece of software records and registers the pitch of each musical note that he plays each of these notes corresponds to a different keyboard command so when the software recognizes that he's playing a C note for example it's registered by his PC as a left click on his Mouse prompting dinos in-game character to shoot his gun laughs [Music] obviously this isn't exactly an optimal play style so as Dino clumsily moves crouches and shoots and games of cod he gets killed a lot however he's managed to build up an impressive highlight reel of his utterly insane Endeavor containing kills that I had struggled to pull off with a controller and some pretty sweet background music that's points compromise security area [Music] a victory dance playing Call of Duty with a recorder is pretty impressive however Dino isn't the only gamer who likes playing games in unconventional ways Miss Mika is a streamer who's known for taking on insane challenges like playing through entire games with one hand or playing famously difficult games using guitar chords to generate a controller input a little like Dino's recorder Mika's unusual playthroughs are undoubtedly impressive and in 2022 she took on her hardest challenge yet attempting to complete two playthroughs of Elden ring simultaneously using a regular controller and a Dance Pad Alden ring is a notoriously difficult game and its open world is full of powerful bosses that can take newcomers countless attempts to defeat for most of us completing Alden ring with a gamepad as an achievement so to many Mika's challenge seemed like an impossible task that didn't deter the streamer though and in December 2022 she started the challenge connecting Her Dance Pad to her PC and mapping each Arrow to a different keyboard command allowing her to move an attack by shifting her feet then it was a matter of progressing through the game walking both characters to the appropriate boss Arenas once sufficiently leveled up and taking on all the bosses simultaneously Mika spent just one month dancing her way to Victory as she took out all of Alden Ring's bosses with her hands and feet simultaneously get up get up come on oh my God the challenge required a lot of trial and error and bounce of impromptu Irish dancing but it wasn't long before she defeated the game's final boss in both playthroughs and completed one of the most impressive Elden ring challenges to date building blocks when it comes to classic video games there are few more iconic or universally loved than Tetris the game was first released on the Electronica 60 computer in 1984 but since then it's been downloaded and played on almost every electronic device imaginable Tetris is officially the most ported game of all time and outside of consoles and PCs it's iconic blocks and soundtrack have appeared on iPods calculators and most incredibly a 21-story building in Cambridge Massachusetts oh that is working [Laughter] that's too cool oh [Laughter] [Laughter] this clip was filmed at MIT in the college this home to some of the world's most intelligent students and consequently some of its most intelligent hackers the Giant game of Tetris appeared on the tallest building on campus in 2012 and the game was wirelessly connected to a nearby joystick that allowed pedestrians to take control of the 295-foot arcade machine as you can imagine the project required a lot of planning an incredibly MIT students first proposed the idea of building a giant Tetris on campus way back in 1993 at the time they didn't have the technology to make it work but two decades later an anonymous cohort of students decided to pick up the abandoned project and attempt to solve it themselves equipped with Newfound technology and coding techniques the students were able to fill 153 of the building's windows with LED lights which they programmed to connect to the joystick and Run the game this might sound simple but the students reportedly spent four long years working on the extracurricular project including a two-month period of working every night from 10 pm to 5 am working those long hours while earning your degree is pretty intense however when the game was displayed in 2012 all their hard work paid off as students flooded to the building to play on the oversized arcade machine the project worked perfectly and other Gamers have since drawn inspiration from the hackers at MIT using similar techniques to create other giant versions of Tetris the videos of people playing these games are incredible to watch although something tells me that the people who work inside those buildings weren't quite as impressed with the hacks in it for the long game sometimes there's nothing better than lying on your couch for hours on end and binging your favorite games until your thumbs ache in your eyes sting however it is possible to take binge gaming too far and some Gamers put their health at risk as they game for days at a time without taking any breaks just like the people involved in one story which occurred in 2015 and involved every soccer mom's favorite mobile game Candy Crush that you're a hospital in La was visited by a 29 year old man who was complaining of thumb pain after playing on his phone the patient explained that he'd been playing Candy Crush all day every day for around 8 weeks using his left hand to swipe on Candy while he used his right hand for drinking and eating over the eight week binge the man had crushed plenty of candy and his own thumb as the doctors determined that he'd ruptured a tendon while playing the game the injury was significant enough to force him to swap his digital jelly beans for painkillers as he had to undergo surgery to reconstruct his tendon allowing him to regain the use of his thumb and hopefully use it to delete the app but crazy is that story sounds he's not the only person who's taken the digital long game to the extreme back in 2011 a man called Jordan Wayne long embarked on one of the most intense gaming sessions ever after spending seven days straight playing the Lord of the Rings online while locked in a small box being transported Across America now this sounds completely insane but there is some method to the madness when Jordan isn't gaming he's a performance artist and for him this bizarre gaming Adventure was Art Jordan traveled from Bald Knob Arkansas to Portland Oregon inside this tiny space and although my gaming sessions are usually fueled by Pizza all Jordan consumed on his 2000 mile Journey was 28 protein bars and 4 gallons of water if that wasn't extreme enough when Jordan's body had processed all that water he dealt with it by peeing into a jar that he sat next to for the rest of the trip after seven days of driving the box was delivered to the 1430 Gallery in Portland where Jordan was released from the crate as part of an exhibition but Jordan didn't just do this for kicks he stated that he created the performance to raise awareness about PTSD specifically mirroring how people suffering from PTSD can lock themselves away and hide from a reality by playing video games only communicating with the outside world in an online space which is certainly a good cause though part of me still wonders if Jordan secretly just wanted to make the most of an in-game XP boost week in uninterrupted privacy Here Comes The Block I don't know about you but no matter how many new games I buy I always end up playing the same old titles over and over again playing Through The Last of Us for the 17th time is one thing but some Gamers form even closer bonds with their favorite games than the rest of us nobody's taken this further than narul Maja being Hassan a 20 year old from Florida who claims to have fallen deeply in love with the game Tetris that's right not a video game character the actual game itself the rule describes herself as objectum sexual meaning that she's attracted to inanimate objects instead of people in the past she's had crushes on treadmills and her first serious relationship was with a calculator that she called Pierre Hassan has spoken about her former lover with Misty Eyes explaining that she loved touching Pierre's trackpad and she'd frequently use her tongue to press his buttons she even took him to prom tragically with all this attention Pierre broke before his time short-circuiting while being cleaned one day cutting their relationship short the rule didn't stay sing over long though quickly rebounding and falling in love with her Tetris NES cartridge in 2016. the rule has described her relationship with tetris's sentiment explaining that their dates involve her playing the game for hours before cuddling the cartridge in bed she's even stated that she plans on Marrying the cartridge in a proper wedding ceremony and becoming Mrs Tetris obviously nurul's wedding wouldn't be legally binding however she still wants to express her love for Tetris in a symbolic ceremony to be fair that l-block does look great in a tux and the rush you get from clearing a line in Tetris isn't the worst foundation for a healthy marriage distracted dispatcher with its sandy beaches and millionaire Mansions Palm Beach and Florida is a pretty laid back place however in 2015 a police dispatcher at Palm Beach Sheriff's Office was found to be a little bit too relaxed on the job after he was caught playing games on his phone instead of responding to emergencies in October 2015 dispatcher Charles M Morris kept a 9-1-1 caller on hold for 40 minutes while finishing up a mobile game it turns out the color had been involved in a hit and run accident but instead of receiving a police response they received the cold shoulder as Charles kicked up his feet and kept tabbing away an investigation uncovered the fact that the same month he waited almost 10 minutes to dispatch officers to the scene of a shooting as he was too busy staring at his screen to respond Charles had worked for the sheriff's office for 11 years and unbelievably he wasn't fired for the misconduct instead the police department chose to demote him to a job with fewer responsibilities allowing him to continue protecting and serving the public or more accurately continue protecting his settlement in Clash of Clans while the taxpayers of Palm Beach to pay his salary a marital Fallout aside from that one guy's thumb we heard about earlier the only things that Gamers usually break are high scores and keyboards but back in 2015 a 28 year old man from Russia managed to break up his marriage alienate his friends and lose his job after playing Fallout 4 for three weeks straight when Fallout 4 was released in November 2015 The Man became so addicted to the post-apocalyptic RPG and he stopped showing up for work and started ignoring his friends and his family after three weeks of killing death claws collecting bottle caps and barely sleeping the gamer finally left the digital Wasteland only to discover that his own life had exploded and the Fallout was Nuclear by the time his binge was over he'd been fired from work his wife had left and his friends had cut ties with him all due to his gaming binge the man was crushed but instead of deleting Fallout or begging his wife for forgiveness he decided to go a different route suing fallout's developers Bethesda the man claimed that Bethesda had caused him emotional distress arguing that if he knew Fallout was so addictive he never would have bought it the man asked as they were around seven thousand dollars in Damages and although his lawyers promised to take the case as far as they could a group of legal experts at the time commented that the case would probably be thrown out of court unfortunately it isn't clear whether the man ended up winning or losing the case as there are no public updates but either way I Donnie managed to get his wife or job back even with an extra seven thousand dollars in the bank oh well at least Dogmeat will never leave him get your head in the game if you spent any time gaming online you'll know that certain gamers are always only one loss away from throwing their controller at a wall when you're playing at home these fits of rage are pretty embarrassing but generally harmless it's only your own property you're damaging after all however in China computer gaming and internet cafes is popular and commonly seized Gamers using PCS and keyboards that they don't actually own back in 2017 a gamer from lonzao was halfway through a session in the cafe when he lost a game of League of Legends reportedly due to his team's incompetence instead of taking a break the gamer decided to get his head in the game literally by grabbing the screen and head-butting it until his head passed through it the gamer completely destroyed the monitor but it didn't go out without a fight and after the cafe workers freed the man's head from the screen they had to send him to the hospital for his injuries the man's Timber tantrum means that he probably won't be welcome in that gaming Cafe again but to be honest I think that's probably for the best he should either stop playing League of Legends altogether nor start gaming with a helmet on a toxic relationship back in June 2019 a 29 year old gamer called sock Don Juan came back to his family home in sisket Thailand after a late night of drinking sack was heavily addicted to mobile games so instead of sneaking in and going to bed he cranked up the volume on his phone and started to play some games creating enough noise to wake up his parents as his stepfather came to investigate the commotion and argument ensued that culminated in Stock's parents turning off the Wi-Fi given that sock's choice of game was Wi-Fi dependent needless to say this didn't go across well and so the gamers started freaking out smacking at the walls of the house until he tired himself out and went to bed the following morning it looked like the argument was over as the family settled in for breakfast and sack's mother headed into the garden to fetch water out of their well however his sex mother reached the well she noticed a strange powder floating in the water after a moment's consideration and some investigation it dawned on her that sockets snuck into the garden earlier that morning and filled the family's well with poisonous pesticides in an attempt to get revenge on his parents for turning off the Wi-Fi shockingly stock eventually confessed to this horrified Sox parents called the police and their son was swiftly taken in by the authorities now I've heard of toxic Gamers but after attempting to poison his own parents sack might just take the cake it's a miracle that his mother spotted the poison in time and kept her son's KD ratio at zero a crazy collection remember Pokemon go obsessed Chen San Juan who we met earlier while he isn't the only gamer with a borderline insane passion for collecting meet Brett Martin a 42 year old from Littleton Colorado who's officially the largest collector of video game memorabilia in the world Brett owns over 8030 Collectibles that he stores in his so-called memorabilia Museum a small room in his house that's absolutely packed with rare items the room is an explosion of color however Brett's collection had humble beginnings starting when his parents gave him a small Super Mario figurine in 1989. at first hit was enough to turn bread into a full-blown collectible addict giving the gamer a lifelong passion for purchasing memorabilia for iconic games like Mario Zelda and Pokemon as you can imagine amassing a collection this large is pretty expensive however he does limit the amount that he spends on the hobby Britta said that he tries to keep his budget to under 500 an item but he's willing to pay up to 800 bucks for a collect that's particularly rare Brett's entire collection is currently worth over a hundred thousand dollars and in 2012 all the time and money he devoted to his passion paid off when he was officially given his Guinness World Record Brett earned to spawn in the 2013 Guinness World Records Gamers Edition and he was rewarded with a new priceless item to add to his collection a plaque that officially crowns him as the greatest gaming memorabilia collector of all time you might argue his love of the gaming industry and its iconic characters has gone too far but compared to some of the other crazy Gamers we've seen today I think it's fair to say Brett's case is a little more wholesome than most well with that it's time for us to shut down our PCS unplug our consoles and go outside and touch some grass but which one of those Gamers shocked her even impressed you the most let me know in the comments down below and thanks for watching foreign [Music]
2023-05-04