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TIL After becoming obsessed with roller coasters, Chris Sawyer created and coded RollerCoaster Tycoon entirely by himself in Assembly…arguably the most difficult programming language of all. For his efforts he received about $30 million of the estimated $180 million brought in by the game.

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