Pac-Manhattan
Sun, 9 May 2004, 10:21 pmcrgwllms9 posts in thread
Pac-Manhattan
Sun, 9 May 2004, 10:21 pmArticle from the NEW YORK TIMES, by Warren St. John.
One recent sunny morning, in the student center overlooking Washington Square Park, four New York University graduate students wearing brightly colored sheets and sneakers and carrying cellphones gathered for a mission.
Somewhere out there on the streets of Greenwich Village, a fellow student was running around in a yellow Pac-Man suit. His four pursuers, code-named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, aimed to track him down and snuff him out — the sooner, the better.
"Our strategy is a dragnet to block all the roads Pac-Man might go down," said Michael Olson, a k a Clyde the ghost. "You take that street," he said to Pinky, as he pointed to a map of the Village. "And I'll take this one."
So began a test run for a game of Pac-Manhattan, a real-world version of the 1980's video game played on the streets of New York and the latest example of a so-called "big game": a contest that uses wireless devices like cellphones and global positioning beacons to track players as they move through the urban grid, turning cities into vast game boards. Big games, with some players online and others pounding the pavement, have been staged in the last year in Minneapolis, Las Vegas and London.
To read full article, go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/fashion/09GAME.html
Cheers,
Craig
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One recent sunny morning, in the student center overlooking Washington Square Park, four New York University graduate students wearing brightly colored sheets and sneakers and carrying cellphones gathered for a mission.
Somewhere out there on the streets of Greenwich Village, a fellow student was running around in a yellow Pac-Man suit. His four pursuers, code-named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, aimed to track him down and snuff him out — the sooner, the better.
"Our strategy is a dragnet to block all the roads Pac-Man might go down," said Michael Olson, a k a Clyde the ghost. "You take that street," he said to Pinky, as he pointed to a map of the Village. "And I'll take this one."
So began a test run for a game of Pac-Manhattan, a real-world version of the 1980's video game played on the streets of New York and the latest example of a so-called "big game": a contest that uses wireless devices like cellphones and global positioning beacons to track players as they move through the urban grid, turning cities into vast game boards. Big games, with some players online and others pounding the pavement, have been staged in the last year in Minneapolis, Las Vegas and London.
To read full article, go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/fashion/09GAME.html
Cheers,
Craig
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crgwllmsSun, 9 May 2004, 10:21 pm
Article from the NEW YORK TIMES, by Warren St. John.
One recent sunny morning, in the student center overlooking Washington Square Park, four New York University graduate students wearing brightly colored sheets and sneakers and carrying cellphones gathered for a mission.
Somewhere out there on the streets of Greenwich Village, a fellow student was running around in a yellow Pac-Man suit. His four pursuers, code-named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, aimed to track him down and snuff him out — the sooner, the better.
"Our strategy is a dragnet to block all the roads Pac-Man might go down," said Michael Olson, a k a Clyde the ghost. "You take that street," he said to Pinky, as he pointed to a map of the Village. "And I'll take this one."
So began a test run for a game of Pac-Manhattan, a real-world version of the 1980's video game played on the streets of New York and the latest example of a so-called "big game": a contest that uses wireless devices like cellphones and global positioning beacons to track players as they move through the urban grid, turning cities into vast game boards. Big games, with some players online and others pounding the pavement, have been staged in the last year in Minneapolis, Las Vegas and London.
To read full article, go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/fashion/09GAME.html
Cheers,
Craig
[%sig%]
One recent sunny morning, in the student center overlooking Washington Square Park, four New York University graduate students wearing brightly colored sheets and sneakers and carrying cellphones gathered for a mission.
Somewhere out there on the streets of Greenwich Village, a fellow student was running around in a yellow Pac-Man suit. His four pursuers, code-named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, aimed to track him down and snuff him out — the sooner, the better.
"Our strategy is a dragnet to block all the roads Pac-Man might go down," said Michael Olson, a k a Clyde the ghost. "You take that street," he said to Pinky, as he pointed to a map of the Village. "And I'll take this one."
So began a test run for a game of Pac-Manhattan, a real-world version of the 1980's video game played on the streets of New York and the latest example of a so-called "big game": a contest that uses wireless devices like cellphones and global positioning beacons to track players as they move through the urban grid, turning cities into vast game boards. Big games, with some players online and others pounding the pavement, have been staged in the last year in Minneapolis, Las Vegas and London.
To read full article, go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/fashion/09GAME.html
Cheers,
Craig
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Walter PlingeSun, 9 May 2004, 11:21 pm
Re: Pac-Manhattan
You need a girlfriend, Craig.
dm.
dm.
crgwllmsSun, 9 May 2004, 11:38 pm
Re: Pac-Manhattan
The Meddoes wrote:
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> You need a girlfriend, Craig.
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Don't I know it.
Know anyone I can hook up with in Traralgon, VIC?
crg -this-tour-is-way-too-long- wllms
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> You need a girlfriend, Craig.
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Don't I know it.
Know anyone I can hook up with in Traralgon, VIC?
crg -this-tour-is-way-too-long- wllms
Walter PlingeMon, 10 May 2004, 09:00 pm
Re: Pac-Manhattan
hi there
just logged on
whats happening
just logged on
whats happening
Walter PlingeTue, 11 May 2004, 12:29 pm
Re: Pac-Manhattan
They could set up two huge tanker trucks and somebody on roller skates in china and play HONG PONG.
Walter PlingeSat, 15 May 2004, 02:01 am
Re: You're Welcome
Having just read the book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" I just had to fix your punctuation.
Weird, isn't it? I can handle bad spelling and bad grammar but the poor old apostrophe gets to me. Sometimes it's treated so badly and then, worst of all, it's ignored completely.
PS no email address included due to a recent inundation of viagara sales pitches
Weird, isn't it? I can handle bad spelling and bad grammar but the poor old apostrophe gets to me. Sometimes it's treated so badly and then, worst of all, it's ignored completely.
PS no email address included due to a recent inundation of viagara sales pitches