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Lara Croft earns Guinness World Record

By Guy Cocker, GameSpot UKPosted Apr 7, 2006 7:50 am PT

Tomb Raider star named most successful human video game heroine.

Lara Croft has today been awarded a Guinness World Record that recognises her as the "most successful human video game heroine." The Tomb Raider star won the prize for "transcending the boundaries of video games and becoming a recognisable figure in mainstream society".

Other human video game heroines considered for the newly contrived award included Street Fighter's Chun Li, Donkey Kong's Pauline, Dragon's Lair's Daphne, and Resident Evil starlets Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield. A nonhuman version of the same award has been claimed by Ms. Pac-Man.

"It is a mark of the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider series that 10 years after the first game release, Lara Croft is more popular now than ever," commented Eidos' Ian Livingstone. The award rather conveniently ties in with the release of Tomb Raider: Legend, which arrives in European stores today and is scheduled for release in North America next week.

Rumours that Mario is soon to be named the "most successful human male video game plumber" have been neither confirmed nor denied by Guinness World Records at this time.

137 Comments

  • masterofobvious

    Posted Apr 10, 2006 10:46 pm PT

    Come on... Mario is waaaaaaaaay more recognizable than Lara Croft.

  • judaspete

    Posted Apr 10, 2006 8:30 pm PT

    Samus didn't even make the list. And she's nearly 20 years old.

  • xXAdventChildXx

    Posted Apr 9, 2006 11:30 am PT

    awesome I really like the tombraider games.

  • giraffepancakes

    Posted Apr 9, 2006 8:20 am PT

    Samus isn't a human. She is part Chozo.

  • zlr06

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 10:13 pm PT

    Hey!!! What about Samus?

  • tr00pa_26

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 7:06 pm PT

    wow?? what about steve fox of tekken 5? hahahaha
    yeah well guiness book stupid their making a record about sumthing that dont exist and nobody really cares about.. well thats the truth

  • gatsbythepig

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 5:23 pm PT

    I wish MarC ECko would wiin. he tried to get it up under pressure

    it was so important he made a video game about it

  • SavoyPrime

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 3:25 pm PT

    Well, I guess that's cool.

  • spidey008

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 2:36 pm PT

    Laura deserves it. God bless her!

  • umaque

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 2:00 pm PT

    Big bOOb

    Now that's Important

  • skylinedude05

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 11:58 am PT

    THATS COOL

  • MAILER_DAEMON Site moderator

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 11:18 am PT

    I've never even heard of Dragon's Lair, and Samus Aran didn't even get nominated?

  • UltimatumCHIEF

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 9:24 am PT

    ohh yes baby.........I Love you Lara

  • dergy

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 8:52 am PT

    wow...i always thought her games sucked. but meh...what do i know...

    what about Samus? ........here's a stretch......Cortana? lol.

  • Nyaar

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 8:40 am PT

    No love for Samus?

  • lordraven224

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 5:57 am PT

    What about Princess Toadstool? For a WORLD record they seem to be ignoring other countries. Lara did fine and dandy in the US but I think Princess Toadstool or Chun Li is more recognized around the world even without the help of a movie.

  • metdevthegamer

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 5:48 am PT

    DryvBy27 said on the first page that Duke Nukem or Mario should've won the award. Thanks a lot, now I have a disturbing, unpleasant image of Mario with boobs wearing heels stuck in my head. Besides that, I think Samus deserves it more.

  • KiLLer_ba

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 12:51 am PT

    The only reason She won is because he has big Knockers. Samus definitely deserve this more than croft

  • FuguNabe

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 12:13 am PT

    Samus Aran or Chun Li deserved this more... but seriously who the **** cares right!?

  • kyacat

    Posted Apr 8, 2006 12:05 am PT

    yes I am so happy way to go **lara croft*** tomb raider games will always be my favorite game and lara croft is still my favorite female game character
    of all time ,

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