Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game's appeal is far less obscure than most of the questions. It derives from the pleasure of playing against people armed not with joy sticks but with arsenals of minutiae. Notes John Nason, vice president of marketing at Selchow & Righter: "The pendulum's swinging back from video games. With a video game you sit alone in a corner. Playing a board game there is interaction-moaning, groaning, laughter...
Today, House Committees are financially independent, drawing upon concessions such as laundry machines and video games for funding. Most committee treasurers report their budget for the year in the $800 to $1000 range, and the contents of the House coffers are reinvested in House activities designed to net a profit--dances, casino nights, lotteries, mugs, and T-shirts...
...Oakes finish his mission Saving the Queen with a final climax in the private royal chambers. The real life Buckley probably wouldn't go that far outside his imagination but the pranks still go on. At a swearing-in session for a friend, Buckley finished his remarks with a video clip of the newly installed diplomat reflecting on the nature of government service. "Don't you understand, Dick," the friend says," most of the people in Washington are assholes...
...original Elsie's run by the Baumanns was not much like the current version, they say. A fresh bunch of flowers "to give the place a touch of home" took the place of today's video games and green sawdust Elsie remembers. They've enlarged it: I tell you, it was cozy then...
...Video-game enthusiasts contend that the industry is in its infancy, like Hollywood in the silent-movie era. Says Clive Smith, an electronics-industry expert at the Yankee Group consulting firm in Boston: "The previous generation of video games was primitive compared with what is coming. This is not a fad. Interactive electronic entertainment is here to stay." Smith thinks that the wizards behind the special effects in today's movies could become the star video-game designers of tomorrow. If that happens, he says, the games will be "very, very lucrative...