A copy of the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 just hit my desk and this book packed with gaming trivia goodness. 

Here is just a sample of what's detailed in the 256-page tome (answers below).
1) What is the best-selling video game of all time?
2) What title is considered the least violent adventure game ever?
3) What was the first fighting game to use combos?
4) What was the first rhythm action game?
5) What movie was the inspiration for the title of classic shooter "Doom?"

Besides records and trivia, the book recaps the previous year in gaming on a month-by-month basis.
The book also includes details for gamers who might want to add their names and accomplishments to a future edition. More details are here.
The book will be available to the general public on March 11.
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Answers:
1 - Super Mario Bros (over 40 million copies, including those bundled with Nintendo systems). That's more than 10 million more than the next closest - the Game Boy version of Tetris.
2 - Myst, which has almost no dialogue, no enemies and no way to die.
3 - Street Fighter II, initially released in 1987.
4 - PaRappa the Rapper, a game released in 1996 in which you play as a rapping cartoon dog.
5 - According to John Carmack, the creator of Doom, it was "The Color of Money," a 1986 film in which Tom Cruise plays a pool hustler. At one point in the movie, Cruise's character is asked what was in his pool cue case. His reply: "Doom."

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