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...harder rain fell Monday. At Rockwell International's plant in Downey, Queen and consort each stepped into the cockpit of a space shuttle simulator and played astronaut, making a video landing. The Queen was on automatic pilot; the Prince, who has piloted R.A.F. jets, grabbed the joystick and "flew" freely...
...quite ready to declare that the stock market was flashing a bleak "Game Over" for the popular amusements. But it seemed clear that video-game makers would no longer be able to rack up record profits with the ease of a twelve-year-old joystick junkie who stars...
Three firms now dominate the console market. None of them accepts game cartridges made for the other two. Magnavox's Odyssey 2 costs about $200 for the basic console and $15 to $50 for cartridges. It has good joystick controls, but otherwise is not very satisfactory. The console incorporates a typewriter keyboard, but not much use is made of it in the game cartridges. Graphics seem perfunctory, and the games generally are too shallow to interest adults. Dynasty, a promising maze puzzle based on the Chinese game Go, is too easy to be interesting. Cryptologic is a not-very-mystifying...
...Very Good Eddie originated there. Although it is not really up to its predecessors, Going Up may continue the string. This is a sappy but ingratiating musical profile of a writer turned aviator who wins the socialite of his heart's desire by his daring handling of the joystick of a 1919 biplane...
...Your article on the eye-operated wheelchair [luly 5] made me see red. It is a prime example of technology running wild. As a quadriplegic, I can state that most of us can operate the joystick control on the battery-powered chair pictured by means of slight adaptations, the most extensive of which would be a lever reaching from the control to mouth level where it can be manipulated by tongue or lips. The costs of these adaptations are negligible compared with the $700-$900 price quoted for the Sight Switch, and they have the additional advantage of allowing...