80s Arcade Games
The 1980s are considered to be the golden age of arcade games. It was in 1972 that the first electronic arcade games with coin slotting machines came into the limelight with Atari inventing the game called Pong, which was a ping-pong game. This game caught the imagination of gamers from all walks of life, especially teenagers who flocked game joints with coins in hand to play them. Though Atari could not maintain their supremacy in the Arcade game segment as a lot of clones came into the market, the 80s saw some of the most inventive Arcade games.
PC Games - Sim City
The year was 1989. The concept was simple. Build a city from scratch, watch it grow and hope to God that it didn’t end up getting destroyed by fire, storm or just a bunch of riots in the streets. It was simple, straight forward, to the point and started a craze of goal oriented PC games that have been going strong ever since.
The original Sim City was very simple and by today’s standards, very primitive. The graphics were crude two dimensional blocks and the terrain itself was pretty unrealistic. But people had a blast playing it. As you kept building onto your city, which had to be done under certain basic rules, it became
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Buying For Difficult People
Every Thanksgiving we drew our family’s Christmas gift exchange names. Our rules had been established years ago…we still purchased for our parents and any children until after the 2nd birthday. We could purchase a little gift for our godchildren but were supposed to stop at age 18. Those were the rules until this year. They really ganged up on me and almost deleted everything for this Christmas 2006.
I guess I was one of those difficult ones…. I have some odd gifts to prove it! There are a couple more hard-to-buy-fors in our clan. My younger brother’s family is the largest so they have been guaranteed to get at least three of us “difficult”
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Booming: Television News Channels in India
News programmes have suddenly become hot property and are vying for attention with other popular programmes telecast in different channels. All major television broadcasters are including at least one news channel to their bouquet. The biggest headache for launching a satellite channel is programme software for round the clock. In this juncture, newsgathering is a major task for the 24-hour news channels. To cater this task, the emerging electronic channels have always made an attempt to cover all the incidents irrespective of position, location and time. These channels not only revolutionized the concept of news on Indian television but also changed the news formats. Before 1990s, Doordarshan had monopolized newscast on Indian television and also turned the news programs
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How to Find a Christmas Gift for Dad
One of the hardest people to find a Christmas gift for is your dad. In addition to being a man, which translates to not-much-into-material-things , dads also do not need much of anything.
So what to give them besides the gifts that you have already given them for the past Christmases, birthdays and other special occasions? Here are some pointers on how to decide on what to give your dad for Christmas.
1. Raid their closets and their desks
Look inside their rooms and look for things that they still do not have or things that need replacement. For instance, does their wallet look tattered? Do they need a new one? Is there cuff links already tarnished? Will they appreciate another pair?
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