All right, gamers, here is today’s new game. It is called “George Plimpton’s Video Falconry”, and it is brought to you by Newgrounds. This is an old game that has recently been revived. The history of this game is even more intriguing than the game itself. The game was created by George Plimpton, an American journalist, writer, salesman and inventor. He was also the founder of The Paris Review. He tackled assassins and pitched for the National League. But his most important contribution to mankind will always be this game: “Video Falconry.” The game was very popular, but for various reasons, involving insidious free market forces, it was discontinued and most copies were destroyed and sent to a landfill. One or two were allowed to go to such remote locations as Kazakhstan and Massachussetts, where nobody could ever hope to find them. However, quite recently the people at Newgrounds have reconstructed the game and made it available for us all to use.
According to the wikipedia article, Newgrounds is actually a well known American social media website that features flash animations and games. Their headquarters are in Pennsylvania. People send them video games that they have written, and the people at Newgrounds choose the very best ones to put on their homepage.
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