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More important, software companies feared that games written for business computers would not sell. "The general thinking was that the average player was a 17-year-old geek with pimples who wanted to blow up spaceships," says Chris Crawford, a former game designer at Atari who now writes programs independently for both business and home computers. "Publishers are just beginning to realize there is another market out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Games That Grownups Play | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Some winners were quick to discount stereotypes which they said surround the awards. "I think I'm pretty interested in my classes but I'm not a geek by an standards," said Sarah Stroud...

Author: By Susanna L. Blumenthal, | Title: Radcliffe Women Win Phi Beta Kappa Keys | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...real pain in the neck to everybody else because I occasionally inject meaningful statements into the discussion, forcing specific and relevant conversation. I am despised by the "arguer" who often gets trapped by my tendency to direct the conversation towards what is important. Some call me a "geek" for my actions...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...TOOK Marcel Marceau, dressed him like a third grade geek and gave him extensive electroshock therapy you'd create a creature very similar to Emo Phillips. Give him an abused childhood and a wretched lovelife and you'd provide most of his comic material...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Way, Way, Way Out There | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...created a stage persona more pathetic than Woody Allen, more whiny than The Pathological Liar and about as bizarre as Sid Vicious. He makes it clear from the start that he's a geek, a psycho, a loser, and that we should laugh...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Way, Way, Way Out There | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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