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Dates: during 2000-2009
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More problematic was Flashback's rendition of Adventure, in which you must find a golden chalice and take it to a castle. The sounds were noticeably altered from the original, and the game's closing sequence was a poor imitation as well. Noted a tester: "This thing is a total rip-off. The only reason to play these games is for the nostalgia value, and it doesn't even have that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Joystick Nostalgia | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

With a foot at each end, you can maneuver the balls across this Seesaw Balance Board--$85 at zebrahall.com--by shifting your weight. Our 4-year-old tester is hooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping Guide: For The Kids | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

Video-game abuse has become a career these days, a crucial part of the $11 billion video-game industry. Hanson is a quality-assurance tester, who plays through every conceivable video-game scenario, looking for bugs, or problems, in a program before they hit the real world. Testers report glitches--a character walking offscreen, for example--to their company's programming department, which repairs the game's computer code. Then the game goes back to the testing department for further scrutiny, and the cycle repeats, often for months, until the game is bug free. "Testers are a special breed," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs: Looking for Bugs | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...Incredible Technologies, Hanson and his colleagues toil away in a dimly lighted room with charcoal gray carpeting, messing with the latest version of Golden Tee, due in 500 locales in November. Each tester has a code-melting specialty--simulating a drunken frat boy, for example--but all suggest that talent goes only so far when they're breaking games until sunrise. Admits Hanson: "You're just doing the same redundant thing, over and over again." Sounds par for the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs: Looking for Bugs | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Most parents turn to the school to evaluate their child. But if the school refuses or you disagree with its assessment, find an outside evaluator. The International Dyslexia Association (800-ABC-D123) can help you find a tester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What You Can Do | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

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