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...monologue barely makes a splash in the sea of bells, buzzers and whistles at the annual trade show of the amusement-machine business, which covers everything from video arcade games to kiddie rides and coin-operated pool tables. But Stern is an ardent voice of optimism in a field that has not been all fun and games lately. Hurt by growing competition for the entertainment dollar, revenues for the industry have flattened: $6 billion in 2001, an uptick from $5.8 billion the year before but off from $7.1 billion in 1991, according to trade journal Vending Times. Arcade games took...
...suits sit at a huge bank of monitors playing Quake Arena. Over at Global VR, conventioneers wearing huge, teardrop-shaped, bright yellow virtual-reality helmets blast away at enemy soldiers in the immersive war game Beach Head 2002. At Triotech Amusement, Tom Revolinsky, vice president of operations for Cleveland Coin Machine Exchange, a national arcade operator, unfolds himself from Ballistics, a high-speed outer-space racing game with realistic seat-rattling technology. "It was a fun game," he says a little woozily, sweat dotting his forehead. "I imagine the younger folks have a little easier time playing...
...There is no quarterback controversy. Neil Rose, who dressed for the game and even went out for the coin toss, is clearly the starter whenever he gets healthy. Even if Fitzpatrick had been able to engineer the upset, he can’t yet make a case to supplant the ultra-efficient Rose...
...summer. With the constant radio play has come a very opinionated and polarized slew of fans and detractors. Is she the genuine article, worthy of our affection, or just another niche product of a corporate record label? FM found two sides to the same played-out, over-hyped coin...
Perhaps the biggest blunder the proactive environmentalist folks made was to coin the phrase "Save the Earth." It should be "Save the Human Race." We are egotistical to believe that humans can kill the earth. The earth will survive. It will be mankind that will not endure. CHRISTI E. GEORGE Fayetteville...