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Twenty years ago, in a move that baffled many industry observers, Rockstar Games, then renowned for its groundbreaking and often controversial open-world epics, released a dedicated table tennis simulation. Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, a title that eschewed the expected violence, edginess, and cinematic ambition of its maker, was far more
