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@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ vast majority would rather spend their free time playing.
 
 {{http://diablobasher.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/doom01.jpg|class=thumbleft|The Ultimate Doom title artwork}}
 
-It's no wonder kids would like a game which is "//widely regarded as one of
-the most important titles in gaming history//", according to the Wikipedia.
-The first 7 hits for the common word "[[http://www.google.com/search?q=doom|doom]]"
-are about the game itself. Then come the film adaptation and various fan sites.
+It's no wonder kids like the game which, according to the Wikipedia, is "//widely regarded as one of
+the most important titles in gaming history//". This is no exaggeration: the first 7 hits for the
+common word "[[http://www.google.com/search?q=doom|doom]]" are about the game itself. Then come
+the film adaptation and various fan sites.
 Anyway, how can we blame kids for playing games? After all, many of us played
 Doom and many other types of "inappropriate" video games throughout our childhood.
 
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ were created for Doom by young artits of any age and nationality. Later games fr
 a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeC | programming language]] which enabled users to create entire
 new games with relative ease.
 
+**Update**: my colleague [[http://selfdotblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/selfpresentation.html | Marten Abente]],
+author of the 3G broadband support in Sugar, noted that he had been creating [[http://selfdotblog.blogspot.com/ | many game maps]]
+when he was just 16. At the university, he worked with a friend to creat an entire 3D game engine from scratch
+using [[http://www.libsdl.org/ | SDL]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL | OpenGL]].
+
+
 === Those inappropriate cartoons ===
 
 {{http://www.shoemoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/blame-canada.jpg|class=thumbright|Still from South Park}}