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    Video Game Trivia: What You Never Knew About Popular Games, Design Secrets, and the Coolest Characters
    Video Game Trivia: What You Never Knew About Popular Games, Design Secrets, and the Coolest Characters
    Video Game Trivia: What You Never Knew About Popular Games, Design Secrets, and the Coolest Characters
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    Video Game Trivia: What You Never Knew About Popular Games, Design Secrets, and the Coolest Characters

    By Sean McCollum

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    Do you think you know everything there is to know about video games? Think again! Find out all the lesser-known details that every gamer craves!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781496645333
    Video Game Trivia: What You Never Knew About Popular Games, Design Secrets, and the Coolest Characters
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    Sean McCollum

    Award-winning author Sean McCollum has written more than 30 nonfiction books and hundreds of articles for children and teens. Currently living in the United States Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, he has sailed on ships big and small, and always checks where the lifeboats are stowed.

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