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Video games continued to grow in popularity. One poll showed that 40% of adults in the U.S. played video games on either a special-purpose game console or a personal computer. Among those who played ...
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Xbox
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The U.S. Army continued to use PC games as a recruiting tool. Two years after the launch of America's Army, a series of free realistic combat games for the PC, there were more than four million ...
Metal Gear Solid
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Final Fantasy
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In consumer electronics the biggest event of the year was the frustrating U.S. introduction of Sony's PlayStation 2 video game machine. Plagued by component shortages, Sony could deliver only half as ...
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