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...system installed in a large Ford pickup truck looked more like a family-vacation outfit than a security tool. Each of four passengers had a color video screen and easy access to a small box with knobs and a joystick. Only this wasn't a game: it was part of a remotely operated weapons system. The screens display views from cameras atop the truck with a range, clarity and thermal-imaging capacity that permit operators to see what the human eye cannot. The joystick allows a gunner to aim the cameras and fire a machine gun, also mounted...
...many video gamers, juggling a joystick and a pizza is second nature. What's frustrating is having to stop playing to order. Sony Online Entertainment may have solved that problem with the recent release of add-on features for the game EverQuest II, allowing players to order online from Pizza Hut without leaving their game screens, let alone their couches...
...liked playing Centipede, in which you shoot and destroy insects that are rapidly wiggling down the screen. "I feel like I have more control," said one woman, comparing it with the Anthology version. On the downside, Flashback has more than 75% fewer games than Anthology, and its cheap-feeling joystick was hard to maneuver. Even in Breakout, where you just hit a ball with a paddle in order to demolish a brick wall, it was impossible to glide the paddle smoothly from one side of the screen to the other. More problematic was Flashback's rendition of Adventure, in which...
...downside, Flashback has more than 75% fewer games than Anthology, and its cheap-feeling joystick was hard to maneuver. Even in Breakout, where you just hit a ball with a paddle in order to demolish a brick wall, it was impossible to glide the paddle smoothly from one side of the screen to the other...
...downside, Flashback has more than 75% fewer games than Anthology, and its cheap-feeling joystick was often hard to maneuver. Even in Breakout, where all you do is hit a ball with a paddle in order to demolish a wall of bricks, I found it impossible to glide the paddle smoothly from one side of the screen to the other...