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...used to be -- and maybe it still is -- that making computer games for a living was every adolescent?s dream, at least among the pocket protector crowd. Sleep all day, play with Nerf toys all night, drink Mountain Dew -- what could be better? And computer games are selling better than ever -- in 1997, they generated $5.6 billion in revenues. But a rash of lawsuits and recalls in the past few months is teaching the industry a tough lesson: Becoming a mainstream medium brings with it responsibility. MORE...
Some competitors can't handle the pressure. At Quincy, one player committed Nerf-suicide after the rest of his team was killed...
Rules for the game are complicated--kills can only be accomplished on Quincy grounds, and player's bedrooms are off-limits, as is the dining hall. Weapons range from small, single shot guns to elaborate Nerf armory, highly accurate at long-range...
...addition, each S&D team member is equipped with two large Nerf guns. The team says the Super Maxx 1500, with a rotating bullet chamber, is a particularly popular model. One member of the team has evenbeen known to strap a Nerf rocket launcher,accurate up to 100 feet, to his belt...
According to Christopher R. Coyne '99, the teameven applied for a Undergraduate Council grant for$16,000 to purchase a nuclear Nerf bomb. Theirapplication was denied. Yet the team is confidentthat, despite the fiscal set-back, at the end ofthe day they will reign victorious...