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How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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Indeed. It felt like an obituary but to announce a wedding. Looking up the town Wikipedia states a population of just under 20k as of 2020 so back in 1991 when that article was written most likely less. So a very small community and I imagine that back then it was just common for people to make announcements like that. But I also think the city did hold some old fashioned beliefs and views. 1. "In 1992, Lake Forest g…

While Ice-T was a rapper, I suspect that it was his work with Body Count (a metal group) that was the problem in 1992, as Cop Killer was the poster-child that year for "we need to ban some music"

Yes I remember those days. I was pretty young but it definitely made news and was definitely a hot topic. People adamantly argued that music like that was a huge factor influencing defiant, disobedient anti police youth at the time. No mention of the influence of societal and economical disparities many minorities and some communities faced. But the truth is there are many factors that influence all our beliefs and feelings and music is absolutely something that has effect on how we feel.

Re: How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

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That reminds me about an easter egg[1] in arcade racing game Horizon Chase. If you trace a heart shape (on mobile device/nintendo switch screen) at the start of the race, it plays a short video with a proposal at the end. Game is very fun too.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoeKgQifaO4

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The heart-warming gem: > I sent a note about these Easter eggs to Scott Corley [the game's developer]. He said that he had recently pulled out the game to show the marriage proposal to his son. But he’d forgotten the code and couldn’t make it work! He and Melissa did indeed live happily ever after.

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This trope has been used in "Free Guy" movie (not a marriage proposal but as a love letter)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Guy

Guy reveals to Millie that his code is actually a love letter to her from Keys: during the development of Life Itself, Keys had encoded what he knew about her tastes into an AI routine in the game, which was eventually incorporated into Free City, explaining why Guy felt drawn to MolotovGirl.

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