20 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)
There's a whole lot of random in the video game universe.
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Farmville just announced that it's retiring. Which got us thinking about video games that have been a huge deal in our lives, and the sheer random convergence of events that turned them into reality. And it turns out that a ton of games, and the details that make them so iconic and genre-defining, exist for weird, random reasons.
Reasons like:
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