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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copilot of the B-17 in a voice that sounds like John Wayne's. Then the plane's bombardier gives an order in a slow Southern drawl. Snips from a grainy World War II movie? Not at all. This is part of B-17 Bomber, a home video game that Mattel will start selling this summer...
...potentially huge voice-recognition market. A team of IBM researchers, for example, is laboring on the dictating machine of the 21st century. The future executive will talk into a machine that will automatically turn his spoken words into a printed text that is displayed on a video screen. With a push of a button, he could also have a copy of the memo on paper. IBM thinks it might be able to give a laboratory demonstration of the technology in about five years...
...bursting out all over. Not only has the 15-month-old arcade game swallowed up an estimated $1 billion in quarters to become the hottest item in the video-game market, but the little yellow creature is now invading homes and spawning nearly 200 offshoots ranging from jeans to a chart-busting pop song, Pac-Man Fever...
...shaped yellow figure that scores points in a video game by gobbling up dots, colorful fruits and four ghosts that inhabit its mazy world. Pac-Man, however, wilts and vanishes when one of the ghosts eats it. The game was originally developed in Japan and is based on a ravenous folk character whose appetite could never be appeased. The name comes from pahu, the Japanese word...
...appearance on the New York Times bestseller list, and Pocket Books' How to Win at Pac-Man. Meanwhile, Bally last week introduced the first model of a Pac-Man pinball machine. The company hopes it will revive interest in pinballs, which has been all but eaten away by video games like...