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TIL that after enjoying success with the violent and groundbreaking first-person shooter game "Wolfenstein 3D" (1992), games developer id Software licensed their 3D engine to "Super 3D Noah's Ark", a Christian video game that features Noah shooting food at animals inside his ark.

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