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During the late '70s the maze of regulations and Congressional worries about the way federal monies were being spent led to major audits of federally funded research projects...
FROM AN ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE there is nothing at all peculiar about having a passionate loneness for Pac Man Just consider for a moment the cosmic significance of propelling a disembodied mouth through a maze in search of sustenance, the primal terror of being pursued by monsters through empty, winding tunnels. Consider the psychological implications of the game like its innumerable lesser relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have...
...abundance falls on the heads of its fortunate makers. It is very hard to predict which game will be a lap jumper. Robert Mullane, president of Bally admits that he was not impressed with his first view of Pac Man, the company's most successful game. "Who plays a maze game?" he remembers thinking...
...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 letter substitution code. Alien Invaders?Plus shows one imaginative quirk, a tiny figure that flees in terror when its fortress is destroyed, but otherwise is an uninspired copy of Space Invaders...
Most of the Colby shots went wide, and when they were on net, Harvard goalie Cheryl Tate came up with the tough saves. About halfway through the period, Tate brought the crowd to its feet, kicking out a shot that had wiggled its way through a maze of players in front...