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"Just a Game" (also known as "Here I stand, all alone again" or "Now I know it's just a game") is a rock song composed by Christof Bachmeier in 1988. It was created for a German charity for starving children in Africa. The song became popular in late 2023 when a 30 second snippet of the song from December 22nd, 2018 was found on WatZatSong.

2018
On December 22nd, 2018, a snippet of the song was first uploaded to WatZatSong by Hungarian user 'Gabor72' as an unknown song.

2023
On December 9th, 2023, a subreddit named r/NowIKnowItsJustAGame was created.

2024
On May 6th, 2024, it was discovered that Gabor72, the original poster of the snippet, passed away. His wife uploaded his death certificate to Facebook, according to a Reddit thread.

On May 12th, a Reddit member emailed Gabor's daughter, expressing that she would assist in locating the music. Furthermore, she claimed that although Gabor was a lover of Italian music, the sample may have come from an Italian or Hungarian radio station between the middle of the 1980s and the middle of the 1990s, even though Gabor never had any vinyl records containing it.