Word: starcraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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REAL-TIME STRATEGY Even though the battles are bloody, kids learn fast with games like AGE OF EMPIRES and STARCRAFT because looking ahead, plotting strategy and husbanding resources are the only ways to win these real-time wars. Age of Empires, which pits players against Hittites, Greeks and Romans, might even teach the kids a little history...
...Remember Pac-Man bed sheets?) but have never come close to the level of mass-market merchandising now a habit for movie studios like Disney. That may change. More and more, PC-game companies are peddling their properties outside the virtual realm. The result: toys like this creature from StarCraft, the year's top-selling CD-ROM game. And move over, Barbie: a Lara Croft doll debuts this month. Online Help for Movers...
BUZZ ALDRIN bravely wrote about his post-moonwalk nervous breakdown in a 1973 memoir, Return to Earth. He is head of Starcraft Enterprise, a California firm that promotes his ideas for reinvigorating the space program -- some of them outlandish enough to have earned him the sobriquet "the Nutty Professor" in the halls of his ex-employers at NASA...