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...semi was basically Eastern Sprints and Pac-10s, part two,” sophomore varsity two-seat Andrew Boston said. “We had no idea how fast Cal and Washington were...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Heavyweights Take National Championship | 5/27/2005 | See Source »

...Pac-Man released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Geek to Chic in 33 Years | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...First hit song based on a video game, Pac-Man Fever: "I got a pocket full of quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Geek to Chic in 33 Years | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...inner nerd is hardly humorless. Wright's cartoon-like sense of the ridiculous--familiar to all Sims players--is still much in evidence in Spore. The opening stages of the game, in which a player must eat or be eaten by other microbes, is a deliberate homage to Pac-Man. Later, after your amphibious creatures have acquired enough limbs to drag themselves from the ocean, they find one another on land and decide to mate--and a sexy, smooth jazz riff starts playing in the background. Millions of game years after that, you will find their descendants zipping across interstellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Sea to Over the Clouds: THE KING OF SIMS | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...been trying to understand how to move masses of people out of danger. Engineers have fashioned glowing exit signs, sprinklers and less flammable materials. Elaborate computer models can simulate the emptying of Miami or the Sears Tower, showing thousands of colored dots streaming for safety like a giant Ms. Pac-Man colony. But the most vexing problem endures. And it is not signage or architecture or traffic flow. It's us. Large groups of people facing death act in surprising ways. Most of us become incredibly docile. We are kinder to one another than normal. We panic only under certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Out Alive | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

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