Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after little more than a year of exposure, a less complicated and ! cheaper kind of computer gadgetry is starting to carve a niche in the word- processing market. Known as personal writers, the novel instruments look much like their personal-computer rivals, complete with keyboard and video- display monitors. Like personal computers, the new products are powered by semiconductor chips and use floppy disks that can store up to 140 pages of text. The difference is that the new machines cannot do such high-tech jobs as number-crunching calculation and communication with other computers. Instead, the personal writers perform...
...Heart blossoms into a modest, megastar success; Brighton Beach Memoirs and 'night, Mother find their way to film. All of which means . . . very little. Perhaps that there is lower financial risk in stories with few characters and no special effects. Or that the ravenous appetite of the home-video market can be easily stoked with product that has proved its value in another venue. Or that moguls have decided to bankroll a few films with their wives in mind instead of their kids...
Others also noted that video game devotees were more frequently men than women. "I found out junior year that all the guys who played video games knew who my roommate and I were, because we were the only girls ever in the Union gameroom," Tewes says. "I remember we quit playing Ms. PacMan even though we were awesome because it was a 'girl game.' It became a real matter of pride...
...Video game fanatics provide different reasons for playing the game. Many say simply that they play because it's fun. "They are totally void things. I don't have to think," says an Adams House resident...
Others started playing video games when they were quite young and haven't stopped yet. "Across the street from my elementary school was an arcade owned by a drug-dealing high-school dropout who was dedicated to education," says Wice. "She'd give us free games for every A on our report card, so I started playing pinball in the fourth grade. She used to sell a lot of pot, too, but I didn't know what at was at the time...