University of Worcester graduate 'constantly growing' world record collection of Tomb Raider games
33-year-old Amy Dyson started her collection back on her 21st birthday, with it now sitting at over 340
A University of Worcester graduate who has the largest collection of Tomb Raider video games in the world with hundreds of them in her ownership has said her collection is still expanding.
33-year-old Amy Dyson from Milton Keynes officially became the official Guinness World Record holder last year with a total of 291 titles, doing it to coincide with its 30th anniversary.
The series, which first came out in the 1990s, follows the adventures of Lara Croft, with each one that is in Amy's possession being distinct, with differences including regional releases, language versions and alternate artwork.
In her latest update she says the number has now passed the 300 mark, with her having around 343.
"It's constantly growing by the week to be honest," she said.
"So I actually started my collection when I was at the university for my 21st birthday, I found out about the Guinness World Record for the most Tomb Raider items and I was reminiscing about everything that I couldn't have when I was growing up.
"I was gifted a load of things as a birthday present and I was told this is your start of your collection, then it kind of just snowballed from there."
Amy, who studied media and cultural studies with journalism, also said it helps her with a brain condition she has.
She has what is known as a Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), which affects how her brain receives and sends information.
"Some days I could be absolutely fine, other days I could have tics, I could be paralyzed, I could have severe fatigue, anything can just come out of nowhere," she said.
"It doesn't have to be triggered by anything, it could just spontaneously happen, so usually I use Tomb Raider as a coping mechanism because it's something that I've been playing since I was a child.
"It's the familiarity and the layout and the structure of things so that it's like, I know what I need to do, and if I've got brain fog it's like having to kind of rejog the memory to be like, right, you know what you need to do, you know what the mission is."
She also continues to actively share her collection online through her Tomb Raider Games Library account, and added that her favourite version of the game is Tomb Raider II.