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Electronic games like Pac-Man, Tetris, Doom and Myst are the totems of a generation and have etched an indelible imprint on the American psyche. Or so J.C. Herz, the 25-year-old author of Joystick Nation (Little, Brown; 230 pages; $23.95), would have her readers believe. For as Herz sees it, video games aren't just kid stuff; they are "theme parks of the mind" that reflect the fears, fantasies and desires lurking in every human soul...
...ability to work around the clock, along with his childhood obsession with games like Pac-Man and his Bill Gatesian decision to drop out of college to write software, are traits Romero shares with many top-notch programmers. He met Hall and the two Carmacks at a company called Soft Disk in Shreveport, La., in 1989, and within two years the four had launched id, settling by 1992 in a Dallas suburb called Mesquite...
When you think about it, computer games have a pretty twisted tradition. From "Donkey Kong" to "Pac-Man," computer games are based in a state of pseudo-reality that in many ways accounts for the escapist approach students take in adopting them as procrastinatory tools...
From a tangle of 3,000 mostly ma-and-pa firms, three ambulance leaders, all based in the West, have emerged to seize 25% of the national market. American Medical Response has devoured 75 competitors Pac-Man style in four years, and now operates 1,760 ambulances in 28 states. MedTrans, which last year swallowed another giant, CareLine Inc., is just as large and has grown tenfold, into a $500 million operation with 12,000 employees. In fiscal 1995-96, MedTrans, a division of Canada's Laidlaw Inc., an environmental and transportation company, posted a 180% jump in profits...
...World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet. One site lists more than 700 working Java applets--each only a mouse click away--that generate everything from small dancing cartoon figures and steaming cups of coffee to knock-offs of such games as Pac-Man and Missile Command. Several leading venues on the Internet, including c|net and Time Warner's Pathfinder, now use Java applets with links to the wire services to display live news tickers running across the screen...