Information: - The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. - Andrew Scott "Andy" Gavin (born June 11, 1970) is an American video game programmer, designer, entrepreneur, and novelist. In the video game industry, he is notable for co-founding the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986, where games such as "Crash Bandicoot" and "Jak & Daxter" were released to critical acclaim. The sophistication of Naughty Dog technology is often credited to Gavin's background in LISP at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. - Jason Rubin (born 1970) is an American video game director, comic book creator, and Internet company founder. He is best known for the "Crash Bandicoot" series of games which were produced by Naughty Dog, the game development studio he co-founded with partner and childhood friend Andy Gavin in 1986. He was the president of THQ before its closure due to bankruptcy on January 23, 2013. - Arizona (O'odham: "Al onak" [ai onak]) is a state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western United States and the Mountain West states. It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is one of the Four Corners states. It has borders with New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Mexico, and one point in common with the southwestern corner of Colorado. Arizona's border with Mexico is 389 miles (626km) long, on the northern border of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California. - California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western (Pacific Ocean) coast of the U.S., California is bordered by the other U.S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. The state capital is Sacramento. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City. The state also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. - Nevada (Spanish for "snowy"; see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las VegasParadise metropolitan area where three of the state's four largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State", because it achieved statehood during the Civil War (the words "Battle Born" also appear on the state flag); as the "Sage-brush State", for the native plant of the same name; and as the "Sage-hen State". Nevada borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east. - THQ was an American video game developer and publisher. Founded in 1989, the company developed products for home video game consoles and handhelds, personal computers and mobile devices. Its name derived from "Toy Headquarters" during its time as a toy manufacturer in the early 1990s. THQ had offices in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. - Crash Bandicoot is a video game franchise of platform video games. The series, originally exclusive to the Sony PlayStation, was created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin during their tenure at Naughty Dog for Sony Computer Entertainment. Since its conception at Naughty Dog, the series has appeared on multiple platforms and gone through various developers and spans numerous genres. The series has a total of eighteen games and shipped over 50 million copies worldwide. - Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, comprises the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California ("El Territorio Norte de Baja California"). It has an area of , or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California Peninsula, north of the 28th parallel, plus oceanic Guadalupe Island. The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora, the U.S. State of Arizona, and the Gulf of California (also known as the "Sea of Cortez"), and on the south by Baja California Sur. Its northern limit is the U.S. state of California. - Naughty Dog , Inc. ( known as Jam Software before renaming in 1989 ) is an American video game developer based in Santa Monica , California . Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984 as an independent developer , the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001 . Gavin and Rubin produced a sequence of progressively more successful games , including Rings of Power for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive and Way of the Warrior for the 3DO . The latter -- a very low - budget but still plausible offering -- prompted Universal Interactive Studios to sign the duo to a three - title deal and fund the expansion of the company . Mark Cerny , who had been deeply involved with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega , convinced Naughty Dog to focus its new resources on creating a character - based platform game that would fully exploit the 3D capabilities of the new systems . Ultimately , this led to the release of Crash Bandicoot for the PlayStation on August 31 , 1996 . Naughty Dog developed three Crash Bandicoot sequels over the next several years . In January 2001 , it was announced Sony would acquire Naughty Dog . After developing Crash Team Racing , the company began working on Jak and Daxter for the PlayStation 2 . In 2004 , Naughty Dog 's studio president and co-founder , Jason Rubin , left the company to work on a new project named Iron and the Maiden . In addition to their inhouse game team , Naughty Dog is also home to the ICE Team ( Initiative for a Common Engine Team ) , one of SCE Worldwide Studios 's central technology groups . The company 's first PlayStation 3 title , Uncharted : Drake 's Fortune , was released in 2007 , its sequel , Uncharted 2 : Among Thieves , in 2009 , and Uncharted 3 : Drake 's Deception in November 2011 . Naughty Dog was known for having a history of not only developing one game at a time , but only one franchise per console ; a trend that has garnered criticism from fans . This lasted until Naughty Dog announced a new intellectual property called The Last of Us at the Spike... After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'naughty dog' exhibits the relationship of 'inception'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - 11 - 1953 - 1970 - 1984 - 1986 - 1989 - 2015 - 50 - 8
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1986