Video Game Myths: Fact or Fiction?


	Video Game Myths: Fact or Fiction?

gazco

1-29-2008 3:09 PM

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1-29-2008 3:26 PM

faeriestarr

I hadn't heard that about New Mexico so I checked it on Urban Legends. That whole story is crazy!

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