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8 Fictional Videogame Products We Would Totally Buy IRL

Videogames are full of gadgets, weapons, powers and all-around awesome stuff that we wish existed in real life. Here are eight products from a variety of games that, were they available to purchase in real life, we'd shell out for.
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Videogames are full of gadgets, weapons, powers and all-around awesome stuff that we wish existed in real life. Some of these powers can't be bought and sold: You can't go to Wal-Mart and buy the Master Sword. But in some game worlds, consumerism rules. The Grand Theft Auto games in particular are notorious for their in-game advertisements for fictional products. Every billboard and radio wave is home to an advertisement shilling some parody version of a real-world product. To be sure, when Grand Theft Auto V launches this fall, it will bring with it a whole new multitude of wonderfully inappropriate fictional product advertisements. But it's not just GTA. Here are eight products from a variety of games that, were they available to purchase in real life, we'd shell out for. Above:

Alco Patch, Grand Theft Auto 4

Among all the hundreds of fake products in the GTA games, the Alco Patch is the one we want most. Sure, its intended use — like its nicotine counterpart — is to help ditch a bad habit, but just think how much easier boozing on the sly would be if you could just slap on a patch. To hell with $10 Solo cups of Coors at the ballpark! Screengrab: Resende13/Wikia/CC-BY-SA