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===Integration with sound cards=== However, the game port was given a major boost in usage in 1989, with the introduction of the first [[Sound Blaster]]. As sound cards were primarily used with computer games, [[Creative Labs]] took the opportunity to include a game port on the card, producing an all-in-one gaming solution. At the same time, they re-purposed two otherwise redundant pins on the port, 12 and 15, to produce a [[serial bus]] with enough performance to drive an external [[MIDI]] port adapter. Previous MIDI systems like the [[MPU-401]] used their own separate expansion cards and a complex external adapter, whereas the Sound Blaster only required an inexpensive adapter to produce the same result.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HERlo0BgpGYC&pg=PT390 |first=Charles |last=Petzold |title=Environments |journal=PC Mag |date=28 April 1992 |page=403}}</ref> By the end of the year the Sound Blaster was the best selling expansion card on the PC, and the game port was receiving widespread software support. With the exception of laptops—for which companies released joystick adapters for parallel or serial ports, which needed custom software drivers<ref name="cgw199311">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=112 | title=Laptops Take Flight | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=November 1993 | access-date=28 March 2016 | pages=11–12 }}</ref>—through the early 1990s, the game port was universally supported on sound cards,<ref name=":0" /> and increasingly became built-in features as motherboards added sound support of their own. This remained true through the second half of the 1990s, by which time integrated sound support had displaced the third-party sound card to a large degree. By the early 2000s, such support was so widespread that newer sound cards began to dispense with the game port as it was certain the machine they would be used in already had such support, including MIDI. Every Sound Blaster card from the first model up to August 2001 included a game port. In 2001 the Sound Blaster Audigy moved the game port to a second expansion slot, which connected to a header on the card.<ref>[[Sound Blaster Audigy]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=February 2021}}
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