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Technology That Changed the Gaming Industry

  If you’ve ever played Grand Theft Auto Vice City, you’ve probably heard the satirical radio commercials that played in between songs as you drove around the fictional Floridian city. There were over 40 in total, ranging from BJ Smith’s Used Autos that promised “if you see a car you like, tell us, we can acquire it for you!” to Giggle Cream which claimed to “make desserts funny”.  Another of these ads was for “The Degenatron ”, a video games console that “plays three exciting games”, which are: Defender of the Faith — Where you must “save the green dot with your fantastic flying red square” Monkey’s Paradise — A game that has your “red square monkey” swing “from green dot to green dot” Penetrator — Where the player must “smash the green dot deep inside the mysterious red square” Of course, this was a joke, but it is also a reflection of the quality of video games at the time period in which GTA Vice City was set — the 1980s. One of the most successful titles of the era was Pong, a ga