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In the 1998 game Metal Gear Solid, the boss Psycho Mantis actually reads the PlayStation memory card plugged into the console, taunting players by naming other games saved on it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.