Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids get it right away. Nobody has to explain to a 10-year-old boy what's so great about video games. Just sit him down in front of a Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo machine, shove a cartridge into the slot and he's gone -- body, mind and soul -- into a make-believe world that's better than sleep, better than supper and a heck of a lot better than school...
Like children with a new box of crayons, video-game makers are taking up these tools and using them to transform the cartoonlike earlier hit games -- Super Mario Brothers, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter II -- into something with lifelike action and plots. Meanwhile, the programmers have been joined by a new generation of Hollywood executives who, having tasted the power of computerized special effects, are eager to create a whole new form of entertainment that can be beamed over a cable line, bought in a cartridge or played from a compact disc. Both sides talk excitedly about making interactive movies...
...goals each from Erik Barbieri, Derek Sullivan, and super substitute Tim Bacich, Connecticut had too much fire power for Harvard...
...blasted away by the latest state-of-the-art models. There is no such thing as state-of-the-art in computers; technology changes too fast for anything to stay reasonably fresh and new for more than, say, two months. What is super today will surely become nothing spectacular (if not entirely obsolete) by the time you start working on the first draft of your fall Expos term paper...
...waste tons of time deciding whether to buy a PC (one that uses an Intel microprocessor; often called an IBM-compatible or clone) or a Macintosh. The truth is today there really isn't much difference between the two. PCs used to be super-cheap; but now the price war in the personal computer industry has forced Apple to roll out several affordable models. Macs formerly were the only computers that were user-friendly; but a PC equipped with Microsoft Windows or IBM's OS/2 2.1 is just as easy...