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Pac Is Back: Craze Turns Homes Into Eighties Arcades |
| Section: LIFE / COMPUTER GAMES |
| Author: David Eldridge |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 517 Words, 3,117 Characters |
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Why didn't somebody see this one coming? In a culture that is obsessively, endlessly recycling and reliving its own past (A "new" Beatles album, The Brady Bunch on DVD, Jim Carrey is the Grinch), it was inevitable that we'd find a way to resurrect Pac-Man sooner or later.
Pac-Man, the beeping, blinking little yellow dot-eater that was as much an icon of the eighties as Duran Duran and...
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...er older brother learning the intricacies of flying an X-Wing in and around the Death Star, is now giving me tips on getting to the next level in Galaga. ("Just keep shooting, Dad.")
Levin compares classic video games such as Asteroids, Centipede, and Ms. Pac-Man to a card game. "It's just as much as fun today as it was a hundred years ago," he said.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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