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Before Doom most games took place in flatland: they were two-dimensional, like Donkey Kong or Pac-Man. But Carmack figured out a way for the cheapo, underpowered personal computers of the day to create depth, to render three-dimensional spacea miniature theater, a virtual dreamworld in which the player could move around at will. "You could have fun with those old games, but it was more of a detached, abstract sort of fun," Carmack says. "But when you take the exact same game play, put it in the first-person perspective, and you go around a corner, open...
FUNNY CIDE Cheapo gelding (darn!) nearly took the Triple Crown...
...divine, but who knew Finagle can also rustle up a mean salad, perfectly packaged for take-out in the park? Choose from a number of bagel crouton varieties and watch the salad tossed as you wait. It’s a genuine case of al fresco done el cheapo. There’s even complementary apples for every customer on the weekend and astonishingly fresh juices squeezed into portable bottles to throw in the basket. Sandwiches $4 and up. 14 JFK St. 617-349-0060. Daily...
...hour cheap access to the Net ($.25 to $3 an hour). There are 20 in Europe. A new cafe in New York City's Times Square each week attracts more than 30,000 customers--students, people between jobs, travelers--with more U.S. outlets to come. The latest is his cheapo car-rental agency, easyCar, where prices start at $13 a day. "I like to invest in the brand," he says, which he jokes means "being up front about it, loud, and hope someone picks a fight with...
...stamp on it--including stools, chess sets and storage units--at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City in May. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs. It's not just in North America. He has been dubbed Der Poet des Plastiks by a retailer in Germany and the prolifico progettista Americano by Interni magazine in Italy...