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The game guide that made players smell garbage

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A uniquely bizarre marketing campaign for a classic role-playing game involved printing highly detailed strategy guides laced with terribly pungent scratch-and-sniff patches. Seeking an incredibly memorable edge, the developers forced young players to physically smell awful odors like decaying garbage and dirty monkeys to fully uncover cryptic puzzle clues hidden within the pages.

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