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...kids on what to do if a classmate goes nuclear. It's an unlikely scenario, just as the Bomb was. But when you eavesdrop on kids these days, there's the painful possibility you'll hear them speculating on who in their class might be most likely to play Doom for real. The shootings at Columbine, Conyers and elsewhere remind us that the threats we face amid our end-of-the-century prosperity may often be close to home. Very close...
...high-speed roller coasters at the center of I.O.A.'s promotion, calls them "theme rides without the theme." True enough for some rides. The Incredible Hulk Coaster is similar to slinky steel screamers in nearby Busch Gardens, though it has some jet-propulsive refinements. Another thrill ride, Dr. Doom's Fear Fall, is supposed to extract "raw human fear" from the brains of its strapped-in victims, but it's just a fresh version of the Big Shot, a four-G slingshot perched 1,000 ft. above Las Vegas, atop the Stratosphere Hotel. Woodbury has already fine-tuned this...
...game industry in a defensive crouch. After all, everybody from my wife to the President has made hay out of the fact that the boys who fired 600 rounds at their teachers and fellow students had nurtured their violent revenge fantasies, at least in part, playing splatter games like Doom and Quake. But on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Quake III, the newest, bloodiest version, was on display, the only question on these guys' minds was "When can I play...
...inside the clamorous convention hall, that's just what the executives of the best-selling splatter games were doing--especially from pesky reporters. When I asked a designer for id, which makes Doom and Quake, if he would answer a few questions, he said sure. But when he heard that they were about violence in video games, he said I'd have to talk to his boss, id president Todd Hollenshead. When I headed off to find Hollenshead, I was intercepted by a public relations official who said that nobody from id would be available. Would I like to talk...
Alexander Basile, 32, a California TV executive, believes the politicians are just looking for a scapegoat. "How many millions of people play Doom and don't go out and kill people?" he asked...