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In Pokémon Red and Blue, the old manblocking the road out of Viridian City was passed out drunk in the Japanese original. Western versions changed it to 'grumpy without his morning coffee' — but his sprite still has the original's flushed cheeks.
In 2013, during a gameSuper Mario 64 speedrun, Mario suddenly teleported. A $1,000 bounty yielded no answers for 8 years. The cause: spaceradiation flipped a single bit in the console's memory, altering Mario's position coordinates.
The gameDoom is the quintessential example of software porting. Porting Doom to seemingly impossible devices — pianos, notepads, microwaves — has become a programming tradition, and someone has even ported Doom to run inside Doom itself.
When Venezuela's economy collapsed, playing RuneScape for about $100 a month became more profitable than a typical Venezuelan college graduate's salary. The game became a genuine source of income for many Venezuelans.
A mom who started playing RuneScape with her son in 2002 built an in-game business empire with recruiters, trainers, managers, and security. She held the #1 Runecrafting rank by 5× and it stood for 3 years after she retired. On her last day, she gave everything to new players.
Chess, Go, and gomoku are proven to have unbeatable strategies (Zermelo's theorem). The theorem proves they exist—not what they are. In gomoku, the winning strategy is known, so tournaments use modified rules.