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TIL "Where In North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?" exists, developed by Broderbund and Minot Public Schools for the 1989 North Dakota Centennial. With 5,000 copies sold and only 3 known to have survived, it's considered "one of the rarest video games ever made."

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