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Fun Fact #200 - GTA 3 was set to release in 2001 but because of the terrorist attacks within America on September 11 2001, Rockstar had to make changes in the game. While the game was still based in New York City, cops were drastically changed to look less like the NYPD and cut out several missions you played with a terrorist.
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Fun Fact #199 - Rockstar video game universes are connected. Carcer City from Manhunt is mentioned on the GTA Radio and Bully's Bullworth Academy can be seen in a GTA 4 TV show I'm Rich.
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Fun Fact #198 - A sealed test copy of Super Mario Bros, one of the original biggest hits of video games, was recently sold for $100,000 to a private bidder.
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Fun Fact #197 - While many view video games as a simple pastime, some people have argued that video games represent a new art form, one that is constantly evolving before our eyes.
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Fun Fact #196 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is considered by many gamers and critics to be the best video game ever made. Twenty years after its release, it still tops dozens of lists and is universally recognized as a gaming benchmark.
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Fun Fact #195 - The 2011 video game Skylanders introduced a unique element to video games by requiring players to purchase a physical action figure that the player then had to place in a "portal" in order to be able to play that character in the video game itself.
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Fun Fact #194 - The video game series Fallout, played in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, has such a large fan base that the fourth installment made $750 million dollars within 24 hours of its release.
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Fun Fact #193 - The 2017 game Fortnite is a free-to-play game that earns profits solely through in-game purchases. On any given day, Fortnite brings in around $2 million dollars from its players, who are spending their money on "cosmetic" items, such as costumes and dance moves.
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Fun Fact #192 - According to one study, Pokemon Go, a hugely popular game that requires its players to play outside in the real world using their cellphones to locate Pokemon, has possibly been the cause of 250 deaths and 150,000 traffic accidents.
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Fun Fact #191 - The mobile game Candy Crush Saga is so popular that, even six years after its release in 2012, it made $930 million dollars in 11 months in 2018.
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Fun Fact #190 - Role-playing games, or RPGs, represent one of gaming's most enduring and popular genres. The genre got its start with text-based computer games loosely based on Dungeons and Dragons or the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Fun Fact #189 - Rocket League, a game in which players drive battle cars in an attempt to push a soccer ball into a goal, awarded the winner of their 2019 professional competition $1 million dollars.
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Fun Fact #188 - The Japanese game series Monster Hunter is famous for its incredible depth and infinitely repeatable play. It's not uncommon for players to sink over 1,000 hours into one of the games.
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Fun Fact #187 - Pac-Man was invented by game designer Toru Iwatani, who got the idea when he picked up a slice of pizza and saw the shape of his future character in the remaining pieces.
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Fun Fact #186 - After the downfall of Atari, video games were resuscitated from an early death in 1985 by Nintendo's release of the Nintendo Entertainment System and its killer app Super Mario Bros.
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Fun Fact #185 - Following the arcade boom of the early 1980s, companies like Mattel, Atari, and Magnavox all competed in the home console market. Atari cornered the market early, but after a series of shoddy games, the company was all but bankrupt, suffering losses of $536 million.
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Fun Fact #184 - Violence in video games has a long history of controversy. In 1993, Nintendo decided to play it safe and release a toned-down version of the new game Mortal Kombat, while SEGA released the uncensored version. Sega outsold Nintendo four to one, as gamers clamored for blood.
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Fun Fact #183 - Nintendo entered the video game scene in the early 1980s with the smash hit Donkey Kong.
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Fun Fact #182 - Super Mario Bros was the first "side-scrolling video game," a term coined by Arnie Katz, editor of Electronic Games.
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Fun Fact #181 - The popular football video game John Madden Football has released 30 different versions of their game in their 30 years of being a franchise.
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Fun Fact #180 - The American obsession with video arcades reached its peak in 1981. Time magazine reported that in that year alone, Americans had spent $20 billion in quarters on arcade games. That was twice as much income as every casino in Nevada combined.
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Fun Fact #179 - The early 1980s were golden days for the video game company Atari. Their coin-operated arcade hits included Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede, and Gauntlet.
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Fun Fact #178 - Older video games tend to be much more difficult than modern titles. One probable reason for this was that many older games were played in arcades, so greater difficulty meant the customer kept shelling out quarters.
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Fun Fact #177 - A 2018 study found that online gamers play an average of six hours a week. Gamers in the UK played the most, and South Korean gamers averaged the least.
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Fun Fact #176 - The video game company Electronic Arts has been the subject of some controversy, due to the fact that a central portion of its revenue streams come from in-game loot boxes, which some governments have identified as a type of gambling.
