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"Manufacturers and consumers alike are looking at computers for what they can do rather than how cheap they are," he says.
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==What the games are about==
As for the games that are available:
It seems almost superfluous to describe Pac Man, a game that inspired a popular song, a television show and a breakfast cereal, but for those who have just returned to civilization from some remote corner of the globe and want to catch up on the computer era, Pac Man is a chomping circular creature who eats dots and sometimes energy tablets which enable him to immobilize the ghosts which chase after him.
Dig Dug burrows tunnels in search of fruits and vegetables that he eats to score points. As the player guides him horizontally and vertically across the screen to dig new tunnels, he is attacked by monsters that lurk behind the fruits and vegetables.
When you play Centipede, the screen is a mushroom patch and you live at the bottom. Centipedes, scorpions, spiders and fleas descend from the top of the screen to attack you, so you have to shoot fast or be stung.
In Defender the player is the pilot of a spaceship shooting through the galaxy at hyperspace speeds whose mission is to fly along the surface of a dangerous planet and save the humanoids there from an assortment of strange invaders.
In Donkey Kong (another game with its own breakfast cereal and TV cartoon series), Mario the carpenter bounces, climbs and rides up girders and elevators, trying to get to the top of a building where his sweetheart is held prisoner by the gorilla Donkey Kong. The player tries to keep Mario from falling or being bumped off as he heads for the top of the building.
When you play Robotron: 2084 you are the only one who can save the world from the Robotrons, a swarm of robot monsters bent on destroying humanity. The object is to rescue the remaining humans before the Robotrons destroy them.
Stargate is a sequel to Defender, in which
the player pilots a spaceship to a planet
where aliens try to capture helpless huma
noids. As an array of creatures attacks
constantly, the choice must be made
between fighting the attackers and saving
the humanoids.
Shamus is a detective who is pitted
against a horde of robot henchmen con
trolled by the Shadow. The player guides
Shamus through a deadly maze, using only
razor-sharp daggers as a defense against
the enemy's laser blasts. Successful play
ers will ultimately come face to face with
the Shadow for a final conflict.
Ants, wasps and spiders swarm across
the screen as you try to enjoy a -picnic in
Picnic Paranoia. You have to swat them
furiously to keep them from carrying off
the food, but they can paralyze you with
their bites if you aren't careful.
In Protector, the player is a space fighter
pilot manuevering through meteoroids,
lasers and rockets whose mission is to
rescue 18 survivors stranded near a vol
cano before the volcano erupts. Alien
attackers complicate the mission and try to
destroy the pilot.
In Super Storm, the Earth is being
invaded by creatures who are trying to
drown all life by raising the levels of the
oceans. The player controls a fleet of war
ships representing the planet's ony
defense.
And here are the story lines for the new
games:
In Joust, the player is tested against nat
ural disasters, armed riders from the Dark
Region and birds of prey. Astride an ostrich
and armed with a jousting pole, the player
tries to knock the outlaw knights off their
buzzards.
Pole Position puts the player in the driv
er's seat of a race car. Drivers have the
option of four levels of difficulty, and com
pile points for meters driven, seconds left
over at the end of the race and bonus points
for each car passed.
Ms. Pac Man is similar to Pac Man, with
the chomping, circular character por
trayed as a female.
Moon Patrol turns the player into the
captain of a land cruiser patrolling the
moon's surface. Alien spaceships try to
thwart the player's mission as he defends
himself while maneuvering through crat
ers and boulders which could destroy the
moon buggy.
In Jungle Hunt, the player performs such
feats as swinging on ropes from tree to tree
and battling with alligators to save a dam
sel in distress.
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