Word: parcheesi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lesson from Disney and an army of developers, who are betting fortunes on the idea that everyone from young families to retirees wants to eat in a theme restaurant and live in a Frank Capra set, where the paint never peels and families gather after dinner to play Parcheesi. And so contractors are carving a 430-acre town out of cornfields north of Washington, replete with sidewalks and gazebos and town squares and the transplanted totems of an easier age. The deep American nostalgia for rural life may owe more to fantasy than memory, but it is a theme that...
Someday, of course, people of Jeffrey's generation will be the parents in control, and they will be casually hooking up V chips to CD-ROMs and the Internet so that their children can play nonviolent, smut-free, four-dimensional Parcheesi with friends in Bangalore while listening to symphonic background music. Until then, though, any attempt at a techno-fix like the V chip will put the inmates in charge of the asylum...