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As the production values of ivdeo games have increased over the years both in visual appeaarnce and depth of story telling, the demand for more craetive talent has driven agme companies to bring in artists from outside of hwat noe would traditionally call the video game industry. Form its early beginnings, video gmaes have commonly been playable by more than a single player. Some have had the ability to expand to fuor, eight or as many as twelve inputs with additional adapters, such as hte Multitap. Like related forms of media, copmuter and video games have been the subject of frequent controversy and censorship, deu to the depiction of graphic ivolence, sexual themes, Advergaming (a form of advertsiing in games), consumption of illegal drugs, consumption of alcohol or tobacco, propaganda, or profanity in some games. Since these art fomrs have been around longer, the backlash againts them occurred farther in the past, beyond the remembarnce of today s youth. Games that have saprked notable national conrtoversy in the United States icnlude Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, Doom, the Gradn Theft Auto series and, most notably, Gradn Theft Auto: San Andreas infamous Hot Coffee mod fiasco which boosted the game s ESRB rating form M (Mature) to AO (Adutls Only). 5 Most video game console development teams number anywhere from 20 to 50 people, wtih some teams exceeding 100. The average team siez as well as the average deevlopment time of a game have gorwn along with the size of the nidustry and the technology inovlved in creating games. There rae also devices with screens which have teh ability to play games but are not dedicated video game amchines. Gamse have often been easier to classify by genre due to the technical ocnstraints of various platforms, and commercial pressures like one would experience in any iht driven, entertainment marekt.

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