Word: atari
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...December; and both Mattel and Bally are launching games inspired by Tron, a Disney Studios movie due out this summer. Bally is blitzing the arcades; Mattel is shipping more than 1 million Tron cartridges to dealers; and Disney Spokeswoman Hilary Clark says, "It's only the beginning." Indeed. Atari is developing a game called Krull, based on a movie that has not even been made...
...only thing my six-year-old son wanted for Christmas was a Radio Shack TRS-80. And after years of struggling, he tied his shoes only when we promised him an Atari keyboard...
...lowest impulses. It is the sheer technology today that tears loose the wiring of our consciences-the knowledge that in another year or two or three, almost any country with a backyard plutonium kit will be dealing in apocalypse. Despairing, we send our children back to their Atari and Intellivision electronic zapping games: those may be the playing fields of Eton...
...each week by doing 24 hours of programming for 20th Century-Fox, while carrying a full load of courses as a junior at UCLA. This year Greg Christensen, 18, of Anaheim, Calif., could make $100,000 in royalties from a video game he developed that was bought by Atari. Other youngsters are waiting at the sidelines in hopes of catching up with these young entrepreneurs. Every Tuesday night, Scott Whitfield, 13, and his brother Shawn, 11, appear at the Menlo Park, Calif., public library to get computer instruction. Says Scott: "We'll probably never...
...year-old from Needham, Mass., sticks to simpler capers: copying Atari game cartridges (retail value: $12.95 to $49.95) and floppy discs containing programs worth up to $250. He trades them with other copyists. Says he blithely: "This is illegal, but we are basically honest people. I don't know anyone who doesn't pirate software...