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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU |
1 | Antenna Research | BBB | Corporations | Software Companies |
| Antenna Research Video game company that makes the new video game eXistenZ, designed by Allegra Geller.
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2 | ArtGod | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| ArtGod Video game designed by Allegra Geller that Gas mentions - her "very spiritual" game changed his life.
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3 | Attack Dog | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| Attack Dog Video game sold at Darcy Nader's Game Emporium.
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4 | Bass Fishin' | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| Bass Fishin' Video game sold at Darcy Nader's Game Emporium.
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5 | Chinese Restaurant [restaurant] | BBB | Dining | Restaurants |
| Chinese Restaurant [restaurant] Generic Chinese restaurant where Allegra and Pikul eat lunch when working at the Trout Farm while playing the eXistenZ video game. "Be sure to ask for 'the Special'... and don't take no for an answer."
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6 | Chinese Restaurant [video game] | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| Chinese Restaurant [video game] Video game sold at Darcy Nader's Game Emporium. "Will you make it out alive?"
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7 | Cortical Systematics | BBB | Corporations | Software Companies |
| Cortical Systematics Video game company. "The latest and the hottest. Not just a new game, but a new system."
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8 | Country Gas Station | BBB | Retail | Gas Stations |
| Country Gas Station Geller discovers that her pod, which contains the only copy of eXistenZ, may have been damaged. Pikul reluctantly agrees to have a bio-port installed in his spine so they can test the integrity of the game together. Allegra takes him to a gas station run by a black-marketeer named Gas, who deliberately installs a faulty bio-port. He reveals his intention to kill Geller for the bounty on her head. Pikul kills Gas, and the two escape to a former ski lodge used by Kiri Vinokur, Geller's mentor. Vinokur and his assistant repair the damaged pod and give Pikul a new bio-port.
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9 | Darcy Nader's Game Emporium | BBB | Amusement | Video Game Arcades |
| Darcy Nader's Game Emporium Geller and Pikul enter the game, and meet with D'Arcy Nader, a video game shop owner, who provides them with new "micro pods". They activate the new pods and enter a deeper layer of virtual reality.
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10 | Existenz | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| Existenz New video game from Antenna Research, designed by Allegra Geller. Stylized as "eXistenZ".
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11 | Hit by Car | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| Hit by Car Video game sold at Darcy Nader's Game Emporium. "The game that puts you in the driver's seat"
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12 | The Micro-Pod | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| The Micro-Pod All new game technology by Corticle S Systematics. Comes with a stick of Meta-Lube.
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13 | Perky Pat's | BBB | Dining | Fast Food |
| Perky Pat's Allegra and Ted pick up fast food while they're on the run.
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14 | PilgrImage | BBB | Corporations | Software Companies |
| PilgrImage Video game company, makers of TranCendenZ.
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15 | Transcendenz | BBB | Media | Video Games |
| Transcendenz The video game they are actually playing, new from PilgrImage. Stylized as "transCendenZ".
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16 | Trout Farm | BBB | Food Industries | Farms |
| Trout Farm Pikul and Allegra find themselves working in a Trout Farm, before being directed to eat lunch at the Chinese Restaurant while playing the eXistenZ video game.
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17 | Allegra Geller | Other | Quotes | Quotes |
| Allegra Geller Allegra Geller: You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game.
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