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Full DYK list

• ... If it weren't for Phillips CD-i, there would be no such thing as youtube poop, and thenforth, life would not be worth living in the slightest.
• ... AAA is, was, and always will be, without question, the greatest video game player on Earth.
• ... Age of Umpires is a highly successful RPG/Strategy video game series by Microsoft and Unsemble Studios. In it, the player takes control of a team of Umpires with the primary aim of ruining cricket matches.
• ... The Allahakbarries Cricket Club was a fundamentalist Muslim cricket team in Glasgow in the 1890s, whose stated aim was to "convert to Islam, or destroy as infidels, every amateur cricket team in the Strathclyde region."
• ... Barns and Nobles is the most successful medieval farming roleplaying game, played by millions of teenage nerds worldwide.
• ... Bloodbath is a popular sport played worldwide. It's the only sport which loses fans the more it gets popular.
• ... The Blue Screen of Death (abbreviated BSoD), also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Mac osx" apparentley, is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft.
• ... The Cardboard Box is the latest advancement in the field of tactical military equipment.
• ... Crimes inspired by video games, although a featured article, is quite listcrufty, and you shouldn't bother reading it.
• ... Cup Stacking is a fringe pseudo-sport championed by young white children all across the Midwest, where real sports have been declared the Olympics of Satan and thus outlawed.
• ... Defender of the Clown is a computer game released in 1986 by Cinemaware Corporation. The player directs resistance against the Pierrot occupation of England with an army of whitefaces and seltzer-spraying hobos.
• ... It is told in ages past that Dragon Worrier was a console role-playing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
• ... The Drunk Olympics, a spinoff of The (not drunk) Olympics, is an athletic competition in which all participating athletes compete in sporting events while intoxicated far beyond the typical human breaking point.
• ... "EXPLODE!!!" for the Nintendo DS is a video game developed and published by Bandai-Namco games, who created such notable titles as "Xenosaga Episode III", Pac-Man, and absolutely nothing else.
• ... I've been pushed into bananas while playing Mario Kart?
• ... Grand Theft Audio is a 2007 video game produced by a small development studio formed within the Recording Industry Association of America.
• ... A Grue (Gruesomicius ravenousi) is a box-shaped gap-toothed mammal known for eating humans, though more recently they have been known to kill certain lone wolves, construction workers, a gerbil or two, speranah, the occasional monkey, people who send annoying chain e-mails, your pets, and...well, Grues like eating a lot of things.
• ... Holocaust Tycoon is a simulation computer game, released for Windows XP and Wii platforms in 2006. It was developed by Ka-tzetnik Enterprises in Berlin, and later released throughout Europe by WN Software. In Holocaust Tycoon, the player must successfully manage a camp, without going bankrupt, whilst avoiding the attention of invading Allied Forces.
• ... Japanese Game Shows can be a little peculiar and imprudent at times, but these characteristics are what makes them so distinguishable.
• ... To cheat at Scrabble, you need to manufacture a fake dictionary, or a fake dictionary website.
• ... You, a worthless nobody, have been summoned to a fighting tournament to fight and be given the chance to win whatever it is your heart desires, be it fame, glory, money, or swimming in a pool full of steaming hot spaghetti and tapioca.
• ... You finally realize that now you are living inside a real-life RPG. Grab those potions my friend and let's move through that field, shall we?
• The 1x1x1 Rubik's Cube is by far The Most Difficult Puzzle Of All Time™
• ... Internet (video game) is a MMORPG played on a heavily modified text adventure engine. It is the second game in the Really Big-Ass Networks series.
• ... Ironing, derived as are modern business suits and certain poodle haircuts from the Victorian era, is an extreme sport which may yet burst with internal pressure onto the Olympic stage.
• ... Jingo! is a game of physical and mental skill, first played in Europe during the 17th-19th Centuries, particularly England, where it is said to have been invented, but that has recently become de rigueur amongst American culture, especially throughout the nation's many colonies worldwide.
• ... An ancient and dangerous sport from which modern day curling is derived, the Kitten hurling battle originated in the steamy jungles of what is now Quebec as a mating ritual of the Aztecs.
• ... The League of Nations was a competition that existed from 1919 to 1946, comprised of countries that take part in the game of War. Winning a war scores points for their team. In the event of a draw, the country with the most kills wins, or in case of a further tie, whoever firebombed the most schools.
• ... Metal Gear Solid (Metal Gear Solid!?) is a tactical espionage action game written and directed by Hideo Kojima (Hideo Kojima!?); and has received critical acclaim for its innovative gameplay, cinematic tone, redundant dialog, lengthy codec conversations, and other things that interrupt and then distract the player from the game.
• The Birmingham Niggers are a professional American Minor League Baseball team from the windswept steppes of Birmingham, Alabama. Most news outlets consider the name offensive, and refuse to advertise any upcoming games or print any statistics for the team.
• ... The Reich thanks you for tuning in to this special broadcast of the Nineteen Thirty-Six Nuremberg Rally! All the beer and sausages in Bavaria can't keep you from this great sport, we know.
• ... Rock, Paper, Airstrike is a popular children's game where 2 or more children gather in a circle and make obscene hand gestures at one another in an attempt to win the game. The rules are surprisingly complex for such a simple children's game, yet it remains a game that children enjoy the world over.
• ... The Royal Pointless Military Things Tournament is an annual event hosted by the Elite General Blundering Around Division of the British armed forces. It is open to all pointless forces members, from those who are no good at fighting but can march very well, to the man in charge of feeding the regimental mascot sheep.
• ... Seal Clubbing is a team-based sport popular in northern Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. It is the third most popular sport in Canada after hockey and moose bludgeoning, as well as the official sport of the Territory of Nunavut.
• ... A shopping list purports to be a simple item used to detail all items required on a given shopping trip. However, recent scientific studies have revealed its true purpose: it is a key element in a game of oneupmanship between couples.
• ... Star Trek Online (STO) is the latest in a long list of awesome and successful Star Trek games.
• ... Super Smash Bros.: Xtreme Beach Volleyball is a spinoff game to the popular Super Smash Bros. fighting game series. SSBX, unlike the rest of the series, is not a fighting game, but rather a "Sports Fantasy Simulation" game, a cross between a dating sim and a somewhat Pong-like volleyball simulator.
• ... The Keep Your Finger In The Box Game is one of Czechoslovakia's favorite American pastimes. In fact, it's Czechoslovakia's only American pastime, this is, however, completely irrelevant.
• ... The Swedish Orienteering And Firing A Rat From A Cannon Championships is a contest held annually all across Sweden except when it isn't. It attracts orienteering fans and people who enjoy firing rats from cannons worldwide.
• ... Thermopylae was the top selling board game of the 5th Century B.C. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized politico-economic activity involving the buying, rental, and trading of real estate using fake drachma and bartering.
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• ... Water Polo... With Sharks! is the hardest games to play, bar none. The sport is exactly the same as regular water polo, but with sharks.
• ... In real football, the ball is held by the hands 95% of the time - regardless of what those damned Limeys say.
• ... Most of these DYK's are in fact the first line of a featured article.
• ... You should get of off the games portal and get a job.
• ... Uncyclopedia:Uncyclo-tan is hawt. That fact doesn't really have anything to do with games, but I just thought I'd mention it.