Leo High School - Oracle Yearbook (Leo, IN)

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15 THERE LIFE AFTER PHC mHN? This 1981 was the year that the video-games took the country by storm. Arcades seemed to be popping up overnight. Video-games were growing very popular. Some of the first video-games that came out were Space Invaders, Gunfighters, and Sea Wolf, but many people felt that today ' s games are more challenging. For a mere quarter, games such as Missile Command, Tempest, Donkey Kong, and Pac Man offer hours of fun, that is, if you can master the machines. Pac Man fever struck without warning. Soon, hundreds of people were flocking to the nearest arcades to gobble up all the cherries, Blinkies, Speedies, Clyeds, etc. that they found in their path. The game craze didn ' t end there. Home video- games were just as exciting and challenging as their cousins the arcades. The Atari and Odyssey games turned ordinary televisions into complete entertainment centers. Another game craze was the Rubik ' s Cube. Let ' s see now; just one more color. Oh, shoot, I thought this would be a lot easier. It looked easy enough. This maze of colors and squares can provide many hours of frustration and fascination. There are certain patterns and combinations that first must be figured out to solve the puzzJe. Of course, there is always the easy way to solving this box of baffling combinations — just take it apart! For those who would like to solve it legitimately, there is a solution book. Then again, one can always twist and turn the sides until they fall into place, but this just may take forever. Good Luck! There are millions of different combinations. Along with the invention of the Rubik ' s Cube has come other clever games, such as the Missing Link, Pyramid, and the Magic Snake. All of these are both unique and challenging in that they keep the mind interested and for the most part, quite confused. Dang it! I thought I had one side for sure. Now I ' ve messed up the whole thing. Oh, well. I will try again later! — Ann Shaw, Vince StovallO SOLUTION TO RUBIK ' S CUBE Ordinary televisions become an electronic playground in the home. This little cube and its companion book are the newest runaway best sellers everywhere. 8A Games

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vm Blocking the laser ' s beams to save your cities may be the object in Missile Command, but Dawn Kitzmiller and Mike Smith are just having fun. Taking the time out from their studies, Al and Vincent Stovall compete in a friendly game on their television. Arcades became a common meeting place for Leo students such as Theresa Minnich, Dawn Kitzmiller, and Deb Kerlin. Games Student Life - 9