Mike Jones Minute-Con 7/3/24

Billions of bucks in unplayed games and Lego could be the way to build in space! We'll talk about it in today's #MikeJonesMinuteCon.

Episode Transcript

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Video games, movies, technology,all of the important stuff. Get the
scoop down and every weekday afternoon atfour fifty with the Mike Jones the Minute
God on Dan. If you buygames and can't seem to find the time
to play them all, you're notalone. The folks at PC games End
looked at the public numbers with Steamusers and calculated that there's about nineteen billion

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dollars worth of unplayed games and libraries. It's not surprising. You might get
a game on release day or whenit's on sale and you just never get
to it for whatever reason. Andthat's nineteen billion dollars just for computer games.
I wonder how much more it isfor Xbox, Nintendo and PlayStation.
Lego might be the way to gowith space exploration and development. Working with

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the European Space Agency, they've madesome Lego bricks out of pieces for meteorites
and are on display in different storesaround the world for the next few months.
But these bricks are also being lookedat as a possibility on the Moon
and other planets if they could becreated and used to build structures with materials
that are nearby instead of bringing everythingup from Earth. That will be a

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game changer with the future of spaceand human inhabitants. Get your daily pop
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