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-# Console tierlist
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-## A few words of explanation
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-In the future, I plan to write a post about my favorite retro games,
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-because list that is at bottom of this post mainly concerns games that are relatively new
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-(released in the 6th generation of consoles and/or later), and these are
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-generations of games in which diamonds (such as FEZ or The Witcher 3)
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-are rather exceptions to the rule, and games that, at least for me, are
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-interesting and give me a good dose of fun are a rarity in the new
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-generations of consoles and PC games. Therefore, these ratings are about
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-the games that I considered worth mentioning, but for contrast, I also
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-mentioned a few games that I thought would be good (because, for
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-example, I played previous iterations of a given brand) and turned out
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-to be a total failure. The table format also forces me to write a
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-maximum of 2-3 sentences per game. Perhaps I will write a more extensive
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-review of my favorite platforms when it comes to retro games.
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-I also omitted competitive games such as LoL, TF2, CS:GO, Fortnite, etc.
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-from this list. Why? Mainly because these games are not closed
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-compositions, and if I wanted to evaluate them, I would have to evaluate
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-a specific season in a given game, for example. Secondly, because I am
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-not a fan of such games (I had a moment in my life when I tried to play
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-TF2), I don\'t like them. Thirdly, from an ethical point of view, I
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-disagree with what these games represent or have in their content: microtransactions,
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-buying and trading skins, many anti-cheat systems do not work on Linux
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-and not because it is technically impossible, but because many of the
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-companies responsible for these games have decided to exclude the entire
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-Linux system because it is by definition incompatible with anti-cheat
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-systems. Most games of this type fall under
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-at least these two accusations.
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-| Games | 1: Seasons | 2: Skins | 3: Anticheat on Linux |
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-| LoL | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
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-| TF2 | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ (VAC) |
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-| CS:GO | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ (VAC) |
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-| Fortnite | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
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-This post would be far too long if I wanted to explain and describe in
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-detail why I think these three points work against players. However, to
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-sum up, if a game meets at least two of these points, I don't think it
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-makes sense for me to spend the time needed to write a blog post about
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-it or rate it on my list.
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-## Console Generation Tierlist
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-### S Tier
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-GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS
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-In my opinion, these are the two best consoles ever released. I could
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-also add the 3DS here, but I don\'t think it has as diverse a game
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-library as the GBA and NDS.
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-Why this choice?
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-Some of my favorite game series were released on the GBA. In my opinion,
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-the best remake in the Pokemon series is Pokemon FireRed. There are also
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-very good iterations of the Zelda series, and great strategy games such
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-as Advance Wars and Fire Emblem. Nothing more, nothing less. Admittedly,
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-the display on the original GBA wasn\'t the best, but nowadays most
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-people play these games on emulators or Linux handheld consoles.
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-As for the Nintendo DS, it is one of the consoles with the most diverse
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-game library. Great RPGs, great puzzle games, great platformers, and
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-even rhythm games. When it comes to this console, in my opinion, playing
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-these games on an emulator is a bit pointless. The console itself
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-suffers from broken hinges, but that doesn\'t change the fact that some
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-of the best Pokémon and Mario games were released on this platform.
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-### A Tier
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-Nintendo 3DS, Classic GameBoy and Gameboy Color, PlayStation 1, Sega
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-Dreamcast, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2, Playstation Portable PSP.
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-Nintendo 3DS. The best portable console released to date, it can play
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-NDS games and, with emulators, games from other consoles. It does not
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-have as many different games as the NDS, but it is still a console worth
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-considering for any video game fan. In a way, it is the console that the
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-NDS aspired to be but failed to become. Despite this, it still sold
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-better than its competitors\' portable consoles.
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-Classic GameBoy and Gameboy Color. No backlight, poor graphics even for
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-its time, and yet it\'s in Tier A. This is the console that started one
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-of my favorite series, Pokemon, which is mainly why it\'s in this spot.
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-Besides, many other great games were released for this console, some of
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-my favorites being: Tetris, TLoZ: Links\'s Awakening, Mario Picross.
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-Nowadays, I recommend playing classic GB games on the Super Gameboy
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-emulator, which is an emulator of the SGB add-on for the SNES console.
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-It has additional frames and colors for games, which makes them look
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-less crude than on the original.
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-Playstation 1. I\'m not a big Sony gamer, but the PS1 had such a diverse
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-game library that I also found something for myself: Crash Bandicoot,
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-Final Fantasy.
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-Sega Dreamcast. One of the most underrated consoles of all time. The
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-first in its generation with such graphics. The first with online
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-features. With a good game library, yet remembered in history as strange
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-and forgotten.
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-Nintendo Wii. The console that started the motion gaming trend, backward
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-compatible with GameCube, is in fact an extension of GameCube with
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-several great games (e.g., Mario Galaxy) and motion features. It outsold
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-all other consoles of its generation.
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-PlayStation 2. As I mentioned earlier, I am far from being a Sony fan,
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-but in order for this subjective assessment not to be too subjective, I
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-couldn\'t give the best-selling console in history a rating lower than
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-tier A.
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-PSP. I remember this console mainly for a few cool games (Lemmings,
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-LocoRoco, Patapon, etc.) and for the fact that it had real 3D graphics
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-in games, rather than a voxel engine with overlaid textures like the
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-NDS.
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-### B Tier
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-Nintendo GameCube, Sega GameGear, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Entertainment
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-System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Switch. GameCube.
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-The first Nintendo console to compete with the PS1, it was
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-technologically much better than the PS1, but unfortunately, due to a
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-few bad decisions, it has been somewhat forgotten. Although I still
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-think it is much better to have a small library of games, but with only
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-gems in it, than to have a million games, half of which no one will play
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-after 20 years. GC games have proven their timelessness, as some of them
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-are still being released as remakes for subsequent Nintendo platforms.
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-GameGear. A competitor to the Gameboy, better than it in every way,
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-although the game library is a little more meager. But I think it
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-deserves a mention. Nintendo 64. In terms of its market position and
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-game library, this console was similar to the GC, except that in this
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-case the limitation was the hardware rather than management decisions.
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-The design was very strange to still use cartridges for gaming instead
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-of discs. Nevertheless, several games were released for it, thanks to
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-which series such as Mario and Zelda became video game legends.
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-NES SNES. I put them in one category because, in my opinion, they should
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-be evaluated in this way. These are consoles that have aged poorly, and
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-it is difficult to play some games from these platforms nowadays. In my
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-opinion, SNES performs much better in this respect, as there are several
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-timeless gems that are worth playing even today. Nintendo Switch. Many
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-people will ask why it ranks so low. My answer is this: it is a console
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-that started the form factor of a tablet combined with a gamepad (no,
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-Steam Deck wasn\'t the first), you can still see remnants of the Wii\'s
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-motion controller, but it\'s not the same level of innovation as in the
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-days of the DS and 3DS. The management\'s decisions regarding consumer
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-treatment also leave much to be desired, and it is one of the first
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-consoles to introduce a policy of remote console blocking and remote
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-game deletion.
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-### C Tier
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-Nintendo Wii U, Playstation Vita, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Xbox 360,
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-Xbox Classic, Playstation 3
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-Nintendo Wii U. The games for this console were great, with lots of
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-remakes from GC in higher resolution and with better assets, as well as
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-many original titles, including Zelda Breath of The Wild. However, the
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-console had too small a game library and was not innovative enough to
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-gain widespread popularity. If this assessment were even more
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-subjective, this console would be in tier A or at least B.
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-Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox Classic. Not many exclusive games for these
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-platforms. The devices themselves are not particularly innovative. The
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-first Xbox is actually the same as the latest one, the only difference
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-being the processing power . In its heyday, I had an X360, the Kinect
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-games were terrible, and I only played a few titles that I could just as
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-easily have played on my computer. PlayStation 3 and Vita. Two consoles
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-that had a very difficult start at launch, and in fact, publishers were
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-very reluctant to release games for them. It was only when modders got
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-their hands on these consoles (Vita) or at the end of their life cycle
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-(PS3) that they came back to life. I haven\'t played much on these
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-consoles; I\'ve held a PS Vita a few times in my life and played Gran
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-Turismo on PS3 a few times. However, this does not change the fact that
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-I do not have a good opinion of these consoles. PS4. A console that
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-fixed the problems of its older brothers, Sony withdrew from the mobile
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-market and introduced a real console with real network features and a
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-good game library. So why so low? Because it\'s not a console I\'m
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-familiar with, it doesn\'t have a series of games I\'d like to play,
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-it\'s a kind of console that has disappeared somewhere between the weak
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-PS3 and the new PS5 console.
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-### D Tier
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-VirtualBoy
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-It was a ridiculous console built on the wave of what was then very
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-early VR. It was no more innovative than the GameBoy, it was very
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-unergonomic, and as a result it is very rare and collectible nowadays,
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-and therefore also expensive. It was a ridiculous console built on the
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-wave of what was then very early VR. It was no more innovative than the
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-GameBoy, it was very unergonomic, and as a result it is very rare and
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-collectible nowadays, and therefore also expensive.
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-### Games Tierlist
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-Wanna read what do i think about games themselves?
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-[press here](https://computer.glamour.ovh/blog/video_games.php)
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