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Word: state-of-the-art (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1977-1977
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...without their flaws. Code Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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