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== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Desmond waking from his coma as he and his companions arrive at a field in New York state.}}
* ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Desmond waking from his coma as he and his companions arrive at a field in New York state.}}
** ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' will also take place, at least in part, in the Mohawk Valley.
** ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' will also take place, at least in part, in the Mohawk Valley.
* [[What Could Have Been|The original plan]] for ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' would have featured areas based on upstate New York and Long Island. It was cut early on in order to focus on the city, though references to an area called "[[Shout-Out|the]] [[The Great Gatsby|Carraways]]" (presumably based on the Hamptons) still exist in the finished product and in the [[Grand Theft Auto IV the Lost And Damned|expansion]] [[Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony|packs]].
* [[What Could Have Been|The original plan]] for ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' would have featured areas based on upstate New York and Long Island. It was cut early on in order to focus on the city, though references to an area called "[[Shout-Out|the]] [[The Great Gatsby|Carraways]]" (presumably based on the Hamptons) still exist in the finished product and in the [[Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned|expansion]] [[Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony|packs]].


== [[Web Original]] ==
== [[Web Original]] ==
* A [[Running Gag]] on [[Alternatehistory.com]] is that non-Americans have never heard of this New York ''state'' and refuse to believe there is such a place as upstate New York—or else think it's a frozen-in-time place still inhabited chiefly by the Iroquois Confederation.
* A [[Running Gag]] on [[AlternateHistory.com]] is that non-Americans have never heard of this New York ''state'' and refuse to believe there is such a place as upstate New York—or else think it's a frozen-in-time place still inhabited chiefly by the Iroquois Confederation.
* In the [[Alternate History]] ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'' (published on the above site), New York gets split into three states within the greater Republic of New England—Long Island, comprising [[New York City]], Westchester and Rockland Counties and, [[Captain Obvious|well, Long Island]]; Hudson, made up of the eastern half of upstate New York; and Niagara, which makes up the western half of upstate.
* In the [[Alternate History]] ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'' (published on the above site), New York gets split into three states within the greater Republic of New England—Long Island, comprising [[New York City]], Westchester and Rockland Counties and, [[Captain Obvious|well, Long Island]]; Hudson, made up of the eastern half of upstate New York; and Niagara, which makes up the western half of upstate.