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He stares blankly ahead with blood- shot eyes, oblivious to all the noise and chaos that surrounds him. He hasn ' t ea- ten for days and his placid expression is similar to those of his brethren. He, like many Americans today, is an addict . . . a video game junkie! The video craze has been sweeping the campus the bright lights and cosmic sounds luring multitudes to its perils. Countless U-M students plug quarter after quarter into the machines that transform them into battlestar commanders or race car drivers. Victims of the addiction are not all students by any means. Businessmen, professors, T.A.s and especially bar em- ployees are all subject to the phenom- enal craze. The plathora of video games is as unique as the people who play them. Some of the most popular include: Space Invaders, where the player is challenged to do away with as many of the oncoming space beings as he can before he himself bites the dust; Aster- oids, where the object is to dodge the flotsam of space while destroying as much as possible not including himself, and the adorable Pac-man, wherein (believe it or not) the big yellow ball The object of the Rubik ' s Cube, a recent addict- ing game, is to turn up a side with a solid color either by coincidence or experience. For home-oriented addicts, video games can be reproduced in miniature. One of the more popu- lar was 5 mon for people with musical memory. HERE AT THE SWCE INVADERS AHOWWJ PEPRD RAWIN6 CLINIC, WE VvWNT TO HEJ-P You CMERtOME buB APPKTICM TO SPACE INVAPERS. WHY POtTT WE START TOWVY Went SOME ' REALITY ORlENTA-nOM OKAY, eVHNOt REPEAT AFTER WE= 1HMf IS THE TWRTCENIHW OCTOBER. TOPAY IS THE [THIRTEENTH t? OF OCTOBER. VERY GOOP. NOW. THE YEAR K 1981. JP! X. .. INVAPERS APPROACHING FIRE on tries to eat as many of the little balls in the maze before the hairy monsters with the big eyes get him. Now doesn ' t that sound like great intellectual stimu- lation? Still, they are all temporary es- capes from the daily reality. Many a student has spent his laundry change on the coin-hungry machines, but what are dirty socks compared with the thrill of intergallactic adventure? -Suzie Pollins Photos by Dan DeVries
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