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...spent a lot of time Tuesday in Tomorrowland and Adventureland. I sat by Jack?s side and worked the pedal as he ?steered? our racecar around ?Indy Speedway.? It was great fun, and I realized that many of the venerables - a go-kart on a track, a float through a wonderland such as ?It?s a Small World? - are just as magic to a three-year-old as whatever the latest high-tech marvel is. Jack preferred the cars to the super-colorful and hyper-sensory ?Buzz Lightyear?s Space Ranger Spin,? which is essentially an arcade game with wheels...
Back when he fixed boilers for a living, Erik Johnson would spend his down time racing cars and smashing goons. He would sneak off to his apartment to play Mario Kart while still on the clock. "Technically, I guess I was getting paid to play video games," says Johnson, 33. "But I don't feel as guilty now." That's because for him and some 80 full-time Nintendo product testers, Donkey Kong pays the rent. Testers check games for flaws in design and play before submitting written evaluations to the product-development division, where many ambitious testers eventually land...
...Dean D. McCallister ’04 was “shocked. Shocked and disgusted,” to discover that the 40 minutes spent manually stimulating Dana S. Marin ’04 hurt his Mario Kart skills. “I was doing time trials in Wario [Stadium], and I was not executing power turns with any degree of skill because my fingers ached,” McCallister recalled. Said Marin, “I enjoyed the rambunctious fingering session, but it was a little distracting when Dean tried to ‘fire my red shells?...
Harvard has typically won the BC meet convincingly in recent years, but the Crimson wasn’t as dominant in the field this time. With NCAA high jump champions Dora Gyorffy ’01 and Kart Siilats ’02 now graduated, the Crimson did not have a competitor in the event...
...team racing back home in Uzbekistan, and I was surprised to find that go-kart racing wasn’t popular among college kids in the States...