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Before Doom most games took place in flatland: they were two-dimensional, like Donkey Kong or Pac-Man. But Carmack figured out a way for the cheapo, underpowered personal computers of the day to create depth, to render three-dimensional spacea miniature theater, a virtual dreamworld in which the player could move around at will. "You could have fun with those old games, but it was more of a detached, abstract sort of fun," Carmack says. "But when you take the exact same game play, put it in the first-person perspective, and you go around a corner, open...
...against Marco Antonio Barrera, widely considered one of the best boxers in the world. Pacquiao was tough - he had brawled his way to two previous titles in two different weight classes - but he was relatively inexperienced. A low-profile Filipino known in the U.S. by the decidedly unthreatening nickname "Pac-Man," he was fighting the biggest bout of his career in front of more than 10,000 hostile spectators in San Antonio, Texas. The HBO TV announcers at the Nov. 15 fight couldn't even pronounce his name correctly. Recah Trinidad, a boxing writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, recalls...
...same Manny who used to box in Manila for peanuts, even if his next fight is likely to earn him at least $1 million. Still, it's hard to avoid noticing the signs of Pacquiao's newfound wealth. Today, hanging out in his rented apartment in the capital, Pac-Man is wearing two fat gold watches - one of which, he notes proudly, cost some $15,000. He owns two houses: one in his hometown of General Santos City, the other in Davao. He owns a Honda SUV, a Ford Expedition and a Toyota Tamaraw...
...between the introduction of video games and now." Earlier in the day, the company had demonstrated one such initiative: a game that connects Game Boy handhelds to the GameCube console, allowing for multi-player action without annoying split screens. The fact that the program itself was an update of Pac-Man (which debuted in 1980), however, tended to undercut the message that this was a particularly thrilling innovation...
...Pac-Man was looking an awful lot like Super Mario on Friday, and even Lemieux could’ve been proud of the results...