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Video games are for kids. Teenagers maybe. Right? But harried parents don't want to waste time sitting slack-jawed in front of Donkey Kong, Super Mario or even Gran Turismo. Wrong. After 20 minutes with NFL 2K, the premier game for Sega's new Dreamcast machine, I'm a convert. The football experience is totally realistic. It's almost like being there, right down to the touchdown two-steps and the frosty breath streaming from players' mouths (that is, if you've picked the Vikings and Rams to battle it out in a Minnesota blizzard). Uniforms get dirtier, players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in The Game | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...blue ghost on his way to scoring the world's first Pac-Man perfect game. The six-hour feat was witnessed by Twin Galaxies, which publishes a video-games record book. After completing all 256 levels, Mitchell, a Florida hot-sauce manufacturer who also holds the world's Donkey Kong record, promptly announced his retirement from Pac-Man competition. Junior Pac-Man, however, is another story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step Aside, Pac-Man, There's a New Chompion | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...seen some of this behavior before, first with Mario, then Donkey Kong and Banjo-Kazooie. But the games, it seemed, were becoming more hypnotic, more of a nonnutritious substitute for real life. Frankly, it scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Love Zelda | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...When you've got KEVIN KLINE in your film, you don't want to lose him behind a mask," says director Michael Hoffman. He is referring to his decision to have Kline (seen here with MICHELLE PFEIFFER) withstand 3 1/2 hours of makeup rather than don a donkey suit to play Bottom in the forthcoming remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For his version of Shakespeare's tale of nymphs, fairies, queens and mismatched lovers, Hoffman sought to explore the vagaries of romance: "It struck me that all the characters were involved in a conflict between the desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

DESK ACCESSORIES donkey ornaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Presidents Attack | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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