In software sleight of hand, video ghosts rise
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Multiple arcade machine emulator (Mame) software can play vintage arcade games on PCs. This development can restore earlier user memories of games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaga and Arkanoid's Japanese bootleg version that were first popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mame, which mimics an old coin-operated cabinet's OS, offers a free source code on the Internet at www.media.dsi.unimi.it/mame. More than 300 such games are now interoperable on all current platforms worldwide. Mame consists of a series of systems that emulate predecessors. Players recall the skills they needed to operate the games that formerly appeared on refrigerator-size machines, but the response code is playing in an entirely different context. Faster technology evolution can make older systems, and the games that run on them, obsolete.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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It's a video game, it's TV, and you're the star
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Radical Entertainment has developed three new computer games for ESPN Digital Games that will be available in fall of 1998. The computer games, termed 'playable broadcasts' include National Hockey Night, NBA Tonight and X-Games Pro Boarder. National Hockey Night plays similar to other hockey games, except the action is seen from signature ESPN camera angles and a color commentary is provided by Mr. Levy and Mr. Thorne. In addition, instant replays are provided as are cheers from the crowd. These visual elements, graphic designs, commentary and crowd responses are all part of an attempt to make the game seem like a live television event, bluring the line between interactive media and television.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Let us play: tinder to fuel musical sparks
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British group Cold Cut has packaged CD-ROMs available in either PC or Macintosh format with their audio recordings, 'Let Us Play and 'Let Us Replay.' The CD-ROMs provide users with a number of software 'toys' for manipulating sound and video files, both those included in the software and files generated or procured by the user. The software blurs the boundaries between the creators and consumers of music. The group also maintains a Web site where users can exchange their creations.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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