Word: pac-man
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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Some want goods which would more directly enhance their scholarly work. Robert Brustein, Professor of English reiterates his annual wish for "a $5 million endowment for the American Repertory Theater." Failing that, however, the Loeb Drama Center director said he would settle for "a Pac-Man addition to my word processor...
...advance on the token plans. With each side soon blaming the other for the foul-up, New York Mayor Ed Koch launched a new crackdown on fare cheating, Connecticut-style. Some operators of video-game parlors that employ special tokens have discovered another illegal use for the Connecticut tokens: Pac-Man players are getting a quarter's worth of action...
...growing importance of PAC donations means that the scramble for such money has become an integral part of campaigning. "It used to be that lobbyists lobbied Congressmen," says PAC Critic Mike Synar, a Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma. "Now, Congressmen lobby lobbyists-for money." When that inevitable creature of the PAC explosion, the National Association for Association PACs, threw a party, 80 Congressmen showed up. "I've never seen such a group grope," says Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas. Republican James Coyne of Pennsylvania playfully installed five Pac-Man video games near the bar of one of his Washington fund...
...games, Atari is now offering home-computer buyers $60 worth of discounts on its extensive library of entertainment and educational programs. The Atari 400 model sells for less than $300. Atari officials like to point out that their computers also play many of the most popular video games, including Pac-Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders. Atari has about 17% of the inexpensive-computer market...
...sales are one bright spot in an otherwise bleak economy. Retail sales have not picked up substantially after the July tax cut. With so much going wrong in business, Americans apparently like to go home after a hard day's work and play a rip-roaring game of Pac-Man or chart their biorhythms on a home computer...