Jon Yarbrough Net Worth
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What is Jon Yarbrough’s Net Worth?
Jon Yarbrough is an American businessman and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $2.66 billion. Jon Yarbrough is a self-made billionaire who made his money in video games. He went to college in Tennessee and made a deal with a local arcade to lend his foosball table for a 50/50 revenue split. After graduating Yarbrough bought more foosball tables and a pinball machine and put them in other arcades before he started to create his own video games.
Yarbrough’s company Video Gaming Technologies makes video games that are networked for multi-players. VGT was founded by Yarbrough in 1991 and he has served as their Chairman of the Board and President. The company is best known for developing and producing video game like slot machines used in casinos. In June 2014 he announced plans to sell the company to the Australian firm Aristocrat Leisure for $1.28 billion.
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You Won’t Believe The Amount Of Money Someone Is Willing To Spend To Be In The Next Madden Video Game!
ByMarvin Juleson December 11, 2015inArticles›Entertainment
If you go back as recently as 20 years ago, many regarded video games as something reserved strictly for children. Fast forward to the 21st century; with the advances in technology, the hyper realism in video games, and the introduction of online play, you’ll find adults playing video games just as often, if not more than kids. Take a game like Call of Duty, for example, which has over 100 million players worldwide. To put this number into perspective, based on current world population statistics, if Call of Duty players formed their own country, it would be the 13th most populous nation in the world! Add into the equation professional gaming leagues such as Major League Gaming, which have rapidly growing worldwide fanbases, and it’s clear to see that video games are no longer child’s play.
With that being said, how much would you actually PAY to be in your favorite video game? $10? $100? $500? Well, the amount that some people are willing to pay to be in an upcoming video game may just blow your mind.
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The ACLU of Southern California is currently currently auctioning off the opportunity to become a playable character in the next release of the Madden NFL video game series. According to the listing, which you can see for yourself here , the winning bidder will submit their name, height, weight, age, skin tone, hair color/length, accessories, and the college they attended, to be in the video game. But that’s not all. The winning bidder will also be able to choose the attributes they want, whether that involves being a fast and agile runner or a deep threat receiver.
Pretty cool stuff, right? Would you be willing to pay $10,000 for it though? Well, if not, then you can forget about being in the next Madden game, because that’s what the current bid amount is at right now, and it could potentially rise. The auction ends on Thursday.
I think I’ll be just fine with creating my own player.
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