Nintendo puts video game history at risk

Wall Street is a video game in which players save suicidal stock brokers leaping out of a downtown office building by catching them in a trampoline and then bouncing them like soccer balls into an ambulance for extra points.

Even for the anything-goes era of video games’ golden age, this obscure 1982 arcade release is implausible and improbable, the prototypical urban legend posted on message boards that cannot be definitively proven but a handful swears is true.

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