What does the tutorial mean by "game object"?

it is telling me that i need to create a new game object in thew heirarchy and i need to add 2 partical systems and a point light to it. what do i select in unity 3.x to create a "game object".

a gameobject is anything in your scene or hierachy:

to create one go to the gameobject tab, create other, choose a sphere or cube or something like that. it will then place the object in the hierachy and scene.

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