Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when its opponent is thinking. Then it says, gruffly, "Enter-your-move." There is a useful voice turn-off button for such moments. Except for this bit of coffee-housing, Challenger has no small talk and no emotion, and after the human player has forced a perilous and gallant end-game win at level 6, it is a real disappointment to hear it say, uncaring and without expression: "I -lose." Voice Chess Challenger costs a pricey $325, but you can pay that to have a couple of teeth filled and get conversation no better. The cost seems justified...
...flashes its lighted eyes, and sounds ominous gongs, one for good and two for evil. The trouble with this Parker Bros, homunculus is that it looks as if it should be able to use its arms and legs like a true robot, and it can't. Rom will end up among the dust balls under the playroom sofa...
...effects become more ominous, the aliens begin to shoot faster and more accurately. Blast them all -whew!-and another phalanx appears, nearer and more menacing. The action is jitteringly fast, and the tension is worsened by a sense of foreboding: as in life itself, there can be only one end to the struggle. At last the heroic player dies, overwhelmed. He is limp, drained, defeated, and his only satisfaction is the knowledge that he has offed a lot of aliens. Current hard-to-believe heroic high scores: by a Chicago player, 187,520, and a 257,000 claimed...
...sparkling tract home in San Diego's east end, rented partly with story-rights money, the twins settle down at the kitchen table after school for a rapid-fire game of clipping magazine pages and scribbling. "Can-I-haf-pen?" Gracie asks a visitor. "Inna gonna write-on da walls," she hastily assures her parents, who are in the living room. The visitor asks if she remembers the old language. "Yes," Ginny replies quickly. "No, you don't!" interrupts Tom Kennedy from the front-room couch. "I don't know why you are lying about that!" Ginny...
Half a minute later, and 1:17 before the end of regulation time, the Bruins played Santa and presented the Crimson with a minute-long power play as Slonim left the ice for tripping...