- [Narrator] When it comes to gaming, we've all been guilty of staying up late button mashing on a school night throwing our controllers in rage or spending far too much
money on micro transactions. At 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 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. (upbeat music) 'Til D.S to us part. From Pacman 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 Sal 9000 1st started playing the game in 2009 he immediately fell in love with a character called Nene Anegasak. An anime style lass with a love for horror
movies and raccoons. Sal has described Nene as his dream woman, noting how the game
changes her personality to his liking as he
whispers sweep nothing's into her ear through the DS's microphone. Luckily for Sal 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
cartridges 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 kiss the screen before taking Nene back
to their marital home and well, I don't want to know what they got up to 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 'em 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 Yaun. 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 Chen's phones 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 $1,000 a month on the hobby using the cash
to keep the phones topped up with internet data and purchase in app Pokemon Balls and Power Ops. 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 phones 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. (recorder plays) Most of us associate the recorder with cacophonous renditions in
elementary school like this. (children playing recorders) But in 2021, a Twitch streamer
called Dino Bino went viral for using a recorder to
play Call of Duty War Zone, in Dino's hands the
recorder's shrill notes became the sounds of death and destruction as he rained down hellfire
one tune at a time. (plays recorder) - Let's go. - [Narrator] 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 Dino's in game
character to shoot his gun. (plays recorder) Obviously this isn't exactly
an optimal play style, so as Dino Clumsily
moves, crouches and shoots in games of COD, he gets killed a lot. However, he is 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. (plays recorder) 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 Mikkaa 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. Mikkaa's unusual Playthroughs
are undoubtedly impressive and in 2022, she took
on her hardest challenge yet attempting to
complete two play throughs of Eldon ring simultaneously
using a regular controller and a dance pad. Eldon Ring is a notoriously difficult game and it's open world is
full of powerful bosses that can take newcomers
countless attempts to defeat. For most of us completing Eldon ring with a game pad as an achievement. So to many Mikkaa'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. Mikkaa spent just one
month dancing her way to victory as she took
out all of Eldon ring's bosses with her hands
and feet simultaneously. - Come on, Chad, we can do this. Come on, get up, get up, get up. Come on, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Whoa, oh my God. - [Narrator] The challenge required a lot of trial and error inbound of impromptu Irish dancing but it wasn't long before she
defeated the game's Final Boss in both play throughs and
completed one of the most impressive Elvin 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 Electronika 60 computer in 1984 but since then it's been downloaded and played on almost every
electronic device imaginable. Tetris is officially
the most supported 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. - [Cameraman] Oh, it is working. This is too cool, uhoh. - [Narrator] This clip was filmed at MIT, the college is 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 and 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 10:00 PM to 5:00 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
bingeing your favorite games until your thumbs ache
and 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 year 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 eight weeks using his left hand to swipe on candy while he used his right hand
for drinking and eating. Over the eight week binged,
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 as 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 bazaar 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 four 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's secretly just
wanted to make the most of an in game XP Boost week
and 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 17 time is one thing but some gamers form even closer bonds with their favorite games
than the rest of us. Nobody's taking this further
than Noorul Mahjabeen Hasson, 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. Noorul describes herself
as objective 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, Hasson has spoken about her former lover
with misty eyes explaining that she loved touching Pierre's track pad 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. Noorul didn't stay single for long though quickly rebounding
and falling in love with her Tetris Nes cartridge in 2016. Noorul has described a relationship
with Tetris as intimate 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, Noorul'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 in 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.
Mooris kept a 911 caller on hold for 40 minutes while
finishing up a mobile game. It turns out the caller 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 tapping 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 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 four for three weeks straight one, when fallout four was
released in November, 2015, the man became so addicted to the post-apocalyptic
RPG that he stopped showing up for work and started ignoring
his friends and his family. After three weeks of killing death clause 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 them all due to his gaming binge. The man was crushed. But instead of deleting
Fallout or begging his wife for forgiveness, they decided
to go a different route. Suing Fallouts developers Bethesda. The man claimed that
Bethesda had caused him emotional distress, arguing
that if he knew Fallout was so addictive he
never would've bought it. The man asked Bethesda for
around $7,000 in damages. And although was 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 doubt
he managed to get his wife or job back, even with an
extra $7,000 in the bank. Oh, well, at least Dogme
will never leave him. Get your head in the game. If you spend 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 in commonly seized gamers using PCs and keyboards that they
don't actually own. Back in 2017, a gamer
from Lonzaw was halfway through a session in the cafe when he lost a game of League of Legends reportedly due to his teams incompetence. Instead of taking a break, the
gamer decided to get his head in the game, literally,
by grabbing the screen and headbutting 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 temper 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 or start gaming with a helmet on, A toxic relationship. Back in June, 2019. A 29 year old gamer called Sak Duanjuan came back to his family
home in Siski, Thailand after a late night of drinking. Sak 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 Sak's parents turning off the wifi. Given that Sak's choice of
game was wifi 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 Sak's mother headed into
the garden to fetch water out of their well. However, when Sak's
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 Sak had 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 wifi. Shockingly Sak eventually
confessed to this, horrified, Sak's 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 Sak 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 obsess Chen San Yaun, who we met earlier? Well, 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 8,030
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. That first hit was enough to turn Brett 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. Brett has 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 collectible 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 a spot 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 or even impressed you the most? Let me know when the comments down below and thanks for watching.
