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Now We Know Why the Mario Brothers Are Plumbers

Jesse Walker | 2.2.2007 5:01 PM


If Grand Theft Auto encourages crime, what does this game do? From the practically prehistoric year of 1973:

If you prefer the presidential scandals of the '80s, you can trade arms to Iran for quarters and feed them into this.

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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