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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even more trashy games and retro chic, head to virgin.net/games for mini-golf, pool, football and celebrity trivia, and the world-renowned "big ass card game." For the Garbage-Pail-Kid generation, Pacman, Frogger and Arkanoid are still alive and kicking. Chat rooms are not integrated into these games--but did you ever want to hand over the joystick to Player...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Goodbye Minesweeper, Hello Love Connection | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...brothers had many happy memories of playing tabletop arcade machines like Frogger and Centipede in their father's garage. Now they wanted to take the new 3-D environment pioneered in the shooting game Doom and use it for something a little more cerebral, something set in the tombs and catacombs of Egypt. The protagonist was to be a little different too. Says Smith: "As soon as you give a male character guns, he becomes a stereotype. We always knew we wanted a female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Lara Croft | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...games for long-dead consoles like the Commodore 64 or Atari 2600. Like so much of late-'90s culture, the emulator scene became cool by being retro. Nick Vigier, 19, a computer-science major at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., last summer found and downloaded a classic version of Frogger and an Atari emulator. Sounding like a member of a previous generation who collected Pez dispensers, he explains, "You can relive your childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games Get Trashed | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

What does the evergrowing pool of adult videogamers want? Why, an update of their youthful obsessions, of course. Given the success of Frogger and other remakes of classic arcade games, a revamped Asteroids is a sure win. In the new version, available on both PC and PlayStation, you still get to blow space rocks to smithereens--but now you do it in vivid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...take the bus. Sony Fresh Pond Shows all the summer block-busters and mainstream pictures. Refreshing, isn't it? Getting to the Fresh Pond mall from the Alewife T-stop is an adventure flick all in itself, though that may enhance the viewing experience. After crossing abandoned lots, playing "Frogger" across median-strips on multi-lane highways, hopping the guard rail and scrambling down a 45 degree muddy incline, and, finally, sprinting across the endless asphalt parking lot, you do feel pumped to watch "The Rock." Sony Harvard Square It's actually easy to get to, shows an ok variety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theaters I Have Known | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

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