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Guinness World Records has listed its 50 games with the most “initial impact and lasting legacy”.

EIC Craig Glenday compiled the list. Mario Kart’s top.

“We knew this would be a complex task so we invited a crack team of industry experts to form a judging panel – and the result is a ‘top 50′ list of games ranked both on their importance and on how fun they are to play.”

Guinness’s reason for going with Super Mario Kart as number one is that it’s the best-selling racing game on N64 (more than 9 million units sold), SNES (8 million units), Gamecube (nearly 7 million units) and DS (10 million units).

Go Mario. Rest after the link.

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Guinness will launch the US edition of Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008 on March 11, Guinness has announced. The book will include records such as “highest grossing day one sales” (Halo 3) and the fastest ever completion time for Super Mario Bros. (five minutes, apparently). See here.