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* The US Army actually looks for potential recruits with considerable experience with FPS shooters, since expert gamers use the same tactics used by experienced soldiers.
** Hence the ''[[America's Army]]'' series, which eschews many FPS tropes in favor of realism. Note that without hacking the base game, the player must create an online account that records their game performance.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110221123932/http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/02/13/2011-02-13_my_deadly_battle_with_madman_victim.html This guy] took down his knife-armed attacker with a leg sweep he learned from watching mixed martial arts on television.
* A lot of surgeons (especially the type who do remote surgeries) report improved hand-eye coordination after playing [[Tetris]].
* While this trope can go both ways (See [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]), this has had a widespread effect and is reflected in more modern media. More people understand the basic operation of a gun and how to handle them; more people know basic facts about how to handle a discovered crime scene (i.e., don't touch anything, and don't ruin any evidence, etc); more people know basics about how to fly a plane; the list goes on.
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