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Article #506606Re: Might be OT: Game hoaxes
From: DavandFrance... Dav Vandenbrouck...
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:01
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:01
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:19:29 -0500, p_conrad <pm_mcmo...@cheatsearch.com> wrote: >I knew a lot of people who were convinced that if you got really high >scores on arcade video games, the machine would take you picture and >give it to the air force so they could try to recruit you to fly >fighter planes. This was no doubt inspired by the movie "The Last Starfighter," where an alien agent (played by Robert Preston, of all people) used an arcade game to identify people who would make good starfighter pilots. Dav Vandenbroucke dav_and_france...@compuserve.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.compuserve.com!news-master.compuserve.com!not-for-mail From: Dav_and_France...@compuserve.com (Dav Vandenbroucke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Subject: Re: Might be OT: Game hoaxes Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:01:11 GMT Organization: CompuServe Interactive Services Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3a68df13.84414721@news.compuserve.com> References: <20010118025359.08322.00002460@ng-cd1.news.cs.com> <652e6tshfl9r7tetdta1quhigtjaqembsg@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mid-tgn-nev-vty19.as.wcom.net X-Trace: sshuraac-i-1.production.compuserve.com 979952554 28880 216.192.71.19 (20 Jan 2001 01:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsm...@compuserve.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jan 2001 01:02:34 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit