Word: game
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIJIMON Pokemon's mean big brother. This game features tougher, more vicious digital monsters, and they're already stomping across American TV screens...
...trading card and Sony PlayStation game; kids collect warriors and dragons and face off in battle...
...know, because four years ago I got one of the highest scores in the country on a phone test for an MTV game show called Idiot Savants. A few weeks later, I found myself quarantined in a studio with three other contestants. Someone at MTV had seen Quiz Show and taken it far too seriously, because we were not allowed to go to the bathroom alone, make any phone calls or say hello to friends in the audience. It is even worse at Millionaire. I don't know when, as a society, we decided that game shows were our most...
...show, the host asked, "Steve Martin played a wild and crazy..." I buzzed in with "somewhere near Romania." This premature gesticulation caused me not only to sit in a corner and wear a dunce cap for the first three episodes but to do things never before seen on a game show. When the host began a question with the words "Venus flytrap..." I emitted a low, guttural noise, which sounded like reee. I had started to say the name of Tim Reid, the actor who played Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati, when I realized I couldn't think...
Most psychologists see Pokemon as relatively harmless but warn of a need to be wary. A child who spends too much time on video games may not disengage from a simulated world and thus may be confused in the real one. And while card trading teaches social skills, it may also lead to obsessive behavior. "You don't know whether there's a valuable card in a pack when you buy it," says Maressa Hecht Orzack, founder of the Computer Addiction Service at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Children under eight aren't able to grasp this fact cognitively, which...