Word: myst
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...Giuliani Mussolini ’04 has been making to Foxwoods have finally paid dividends—Mussolini cleaned house at a poker tournament in Leverett over the weekend. But he found himself in the hole again later on that same evening after losing a beer chugging contest to Myst, a dancer at a Chinatown strip club, and then losing a double-or-nothing arm-wrestling contest with Trinity, Myst’s on-stage companion. The night took another turn for the worse when a drunken Mussolini inadvertently tipped the bathroom attendant with his father’s gold...
...Those who enjoyed "Myst" for its emphasis on exploration and lack of explicit instruction will thrill to "Ico." After a long, wordless introductory movie about a boy taken to a crumbling, empty castle and imprisoned there, you find yourself as the boy, Ico, suddenly escaped from his cell. What to do? You start by looking around. This game rewards observation and logic far more than rapid hand-eye coordination. Unlike "Myst" it is 3-D, giving you a gods-eye view of Ico and his surroundings. Unlike the usual saucer-eyed, cutesy, whey-faced characters of Japanese-created games...
...MYST WATCH If you lost sleep over Myst, the best-selling computer game of all time, put on some coffee: 500,000 copies of Myst 3: Exile ($45, for Windows and Mac) just hit stores. Exile has the same lush fantasy graphics as Myst, but now you can swivel your point of view a full 360 degrees to admire them. What's more, this time the puzzles are easier--not that you shouldn't still clear your calendar...
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...they do for a regular cell-phone call. In return, they'll get such options as playing poker with a friend in Fresno or entering the lottery on the fly. Nokia has even shown a text-based detective game. Rather than clicking on a picture as you would in Myst, say, you read a bit of the storyline, then choose what to do next from a list of options. Activision plans to adapt favorites like Asteroids and Space Invaders for cell phones as well as create new games like interactive sweepstakes with cash prizes...