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Word: phasers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese-made home entertainment system in its basic form costs around $80, with an option to buy extra features, such as a turbo joystick, phaser gun for shooting games, and get this, a "power pad"--a device which players stand upon and simulate running for track and field games...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Of Super Marios and Zeldas | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

Other perplexing questions the writer for the new version of the television classic said he must wrestle with include deciding whether characters should fire phaser guns or photon torpedoes...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: TV Writer Treks to Harvard | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

...Every time someone fires a phaser, it costs $3000," Fries said to the Lamont Forum audience. "Once as a joke, I put in the script: '1000 space monkeys attack the Enterprise with phasers.' I got a phone call very quickly about that...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: TV Writer Treks to Harvard | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

...bred generation of the sixties, space travel was Star Trek. The space walks and moon landings were pretty tame stuff compared to the phaser-blasting antics of Captain Kirk and his cosmic crew. Apollo was a warm-up, a boring story for adults who couldn't handle the real drama of rampaging Romulans and galaxy-sized amoebas...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Challenger's Mistaken Enterprise | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

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