The daylight robbery happened while Mr Twyford was at work, and the burglar took consoles, games, DVDs and cash during Thursday’s break-in at his Melbourne home where he moved about a year ago.

As soon his Warrnambool friends heard about the robbery, they started a Go Fund Me page to help raise money to replace what had been taken.

Among those who chipped in were some of his friends who, along with Mr Twyford, set the world record for the longest video game marathon playing a racing game.

And the record still stands today, four years after the group spent 35 hours and 46 minutes playing the game.

“I live with my cousin and he came home and found all the doors wide open,” Mr Twyford said.

“It was a bit full on. My room was ripped to pieces and I was missing a few personal things. I had money put aside and that got taken as well.

“It sounds a bit nerdy I guess, but they took all my games, all the consoles. I had to fill out the police report and it was roughly about $4000 worth of stuff. It was insane.”

His Warrnambool friends have now raised enough money to buy him a new Playstation 4 and are still fundraising to purchase a Nintendo Switch and some games.

Mr Twyford said playing games was a big hobby of his and had still, from time to time, played the Mario Kart game that was used in the world record feat.

“That got taken too. I won’t be playing that much any more,” he said. “It’s pretty sentimental. It sounds dumb because it’s games and all that kind of stuff, but it kinda means a lot.”

Mr Twyford, along with three others, set the world record in 2014 when he was in year 12 all while raising $400 for Peter’s Project which helped fund Warrnambool’s cancer centre.

“Everyone said they’d beat it but we’ve still got it,” he said. “I’ve had people message me over the years saying they’re going to do it, they want my help but you never see anything come of it.”

He and his mates have been in the Guinness World Record Gamers Edition of the book for the past few years.