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...ground weapons you can think of," Martin is saying, ticking off a laundry list. "The mission computer knows the ordnance you've got onboard. It knows bomb ballistics and range. The information comes on the HUD with a symbol--a little diamond over the target, just like an Atari video game. In the CCIP [continuously computed impact point] mode, your job is to put the diamond over the target, hit the pickle button and bombs come off. And we hit. Well, within...
Starting with their bearlike countenances and their fascination with toys and children, Nolan Bushnell and Stephen Wozniak have much in common. Each is an idea man who once came up with a billion-dollar blockbuster. Bushnell, 43, started Atari in 1972 and developed Pong, the first successful video game. Wozniak, 35, designed and helped build the first Apple computer in a garage in 1975. Both are engineering wizards at heart who have proved far more adept at creating companies than managing them over the long haul. And each is restlessly angling for an encore...
...take a while to emerge because Albarn and Burton have stirred them all together. Dirty Harry has the shimmering keyboards of The Message and the eerily blank kiddie chorus of Another Brick in the Wall. O Green World has a Song 2 guitar line and a countermelody seemingly by Atari. Reference points from rock, rap, dance, dub and world music pop up and disappear again, blending until Demon Days feels like a unified theory of music (even if it never generates anything so rigorous or fussy as an actual theory). Burton says he hopes he gave Albarn "the metaphor...
...Atari 2600 game system sells millions of units and brings arcade action home...
...even a miniature bowling alley. Though it’s easy to get lost in the maze of video games and crowds of children, eventually you’ll discover the virtually deserted row of old school games. Be like Fred Savage from The Wizard on PacMan, Ms. PacMan, Atari Millipede, and Tetris...