Air Academy High School - Vapor Trails Yearbook (USAF Academy, CO)

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Home video games allowed a simple TV to become a beeping color battleground Copposite top leftl. Intellivision allowed video athletes to play individually or compete against each other. Liz Paul gears up for a video session against Tim Anderson Coppositie lower leftj. '4 A i I 1 E I 1 l Y . Blasting away, Liz Paul defends her galaxy 0093- Gamesman Pete Peterson battles a computerized brain while playing the electronic memory game Simon Cmlddleb. Losing herself in another world, Tonya Anderson foils aliens Cbottomj. Warrior Tim Anderson blows up allen beings Cabovej. 127 Student Life

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126 People That Pla Games Or ls It Gomes That Play People? The introduction of electronics in the world of enter- tainment took the nation by laser beam storm. After all, it costa mere guorter to become a warrior in most any galaxy, defending almost anything. For many Americans, being thrust into a world of alien invaders, deadly asteroids, and monster insects was the ideal way to spend an afternoon. Bruce Campbell, a 1976 graduate of Air Academy, captured the world record in Asteroids in December. Hours of wrath for a quarter and suddenly you're a world champion. Video game players knew no age limit: everyone liked to win. But high school students accounted for most of the more than S3 billion Americans have spent on this latest fad for free time. Many of the arcade video games found their way into homes via television video units under such la- bels as Atari, Magnavox Odyssey, and Mattel's Intel- livision. Pong amazed people by letting them con- trol miniature paddles on a screen. Space Invaders' came along in 1978 thrilling people all over again, but both paled in comparison to the inventions the 80's promised. With wristwatches that had a miniature video game screen on them and televisions that could fit into the palm of a hand, what next? was the obvious question. But addictive video games were definitely not on their way out yet. Machines that rasped, I challenge you were surprising, and even frightening, but the technology displayed was amazing and 1982 will definitely be a year to remember these outstanding accomplish- ments. r

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In Wlth The New On Wrth The Qld At the beglnnrng of the year stu dents drdn t thunk too much about If But by late fall after Drstrlct Twenty s second hugh school was offrclally named Rampart and half of Arr Acad emys student body was consulted about such Items as the new school s mascot and colors people began to form and vorce oprmons about the expansion Sophomores Shana Kohles and Pam Frank Ilvlng west of the dlstrlct s I 25 drvrdrng Irne were slated to con trnue as Arr Academy students I m glad I can continue at Arr Academy commented Shana a gymnast Ive always wanted to graduate from thus school About the blggest disadvantage I can see of the expansion wrll be the dlvldlng of the semor class and athletrc teams Fellow athlete Pam Frank was also happy to continue as an Arr Academy Kadet but she admrtted to some envy of Rampart s new facrll tres It wrll be good to carry out the Academy tradrtron though she sand Sophomores Carla Coughlan and Bobby Formanek slated to be Ram part Rams durrng their junior year were equally excrted about golng to the new school I m glad I II be go Ing there Carla sand For one thrng the school rs gorng to be connected and all Indoors so we won t have to walk outsrde to get to a different bulldmg The new school wrll be great Bobby concurred Next year wlll be nts frrst year and well get to be a part of If The class of 1983 was the senlor class destined to be splrt by the ex pansron with part contrnulng at Arr Academy and part movrng to Ram part Juniors Rrta Rrzkallah and Bran don Rowe were part of that class but both were scheduled to continue at Arr Academy I m torn Ruta sand Id Irke to go to the new school because so many of my fnends wrll be going there On the other hand I want to graduate from Arr Academy after all I ve gone here for two years and I want to fmlsh The new school wrll be nrce and all but I ll strck with Arr Acade m I am proud to go to Arr Acade my stated Brandon Rampart wrll have rts advantages luke bemg all new and carpeted Its too bad that fnends have to be splrt up but I luke wrll be tough the adjustment and all but also a great challenge Future Rampart graduates Bruce Lockwood and Shelly Vaughn voiced optrmrstlc loyalty to their new school I want to go to Rampart Bruce sard because rt wrll be a change of pace We wrll be the flrst graduating class We will be AAA rn sports and a lot more competmve We wlll be the frrst senror class there and we will be able to set all the tradrtrons I dont mrnd the splrt because my good fnends are gonng to Rampart too lt s gomg to be a whole new atmo sphere Shelly acknowledged both advan tages and dlsadvantages of chang mg schools but concluded Wrth ev eryone working together and point mg toward leadership I thunk we could make Ramparts flrst year a year to remember O ' . I , . . . 1. Sf , o Q I e I . I u r . . . Mm I I - n ll u . 4 a g ' the idea of a four-year high school. It ,IKM . . . I . rf . . 1 n ' 1 u n a n I1 ll l . . X ,