Word: gameroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back and forth. Hour after hour. In the dark of a gameroom in Boston...
Katherine E. Miller '89, manager of Harvard Union Services Agency (HUSA) ran high-score contests at the Union for Asteroids and pinball last spring which drew many people competing for the first-place prize of Celtics tickets. But even without incentive, the Union gameroom almost always contains at least a faithful few. Miller says that sometimes people just can't seem to stay away...
...About two weeks ago I got an exterminator to fumigate the gameroom, and because the gas fumes he used were toxic, I had to shut the gameroom from 12 noon to 6 p.m. I put up big signs warning people to stay out, but when I went down there at two in the afternoon, about five people were in the room playing away. The exterminator hadn't locked the gameroom door and they had come in and couldn't have cared less about poisonous gas. Well, we all have our priorities," Miller says...
Others also noted that video game devotees were more frequently men than women. "I found out junior year that all the guys who played video games knew who my roommate and I were, because we were the only girls ever in the Union gameroom," Tewes says. "I remember we quit playing Ms. PacMan even though we were awesome because it was a 'girl game.' It became a real matter of pride...
Morse said, however, that the police merely followed the lead of a witness who had seen a Black man "apparently with cook's regalia on. "He said that the student witness, an employee at the gameroom, had voluntarily opened his own knapsack for police search and that the police followed up all other leads...