Classic arcade games, such as Pac-Man and Space Invaders, are particularly well suited to mobile play.
Communities of graying gamers have sprouted up world-wide as generations reared on Pong and Pac-Man have become addicted to the latest iterations of Halo and Call of Duty, but are no longer as fast with their trigger fingers.
While the lumbering relics of the computing past are torn up for scrap--or, if they're lucky, stashed away in a museum--games such as Pac Man or Galaga are endlessly recycled for use in online services, such as X-Box Live, or on mobile phones and handheld devices.
Favre played video games back in the day such as Pong and Pac-man, but he says he's seen gaming come a long way since then.
Still, the United States and South Korea have raised their defense postures, as has Japan, which deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo on Tuesday as a precaution against possible North Korean ballistic missile tests.
With electrodes fixed to his skull, Mr Styffe fixed his mind on game characters, such as a juggler or a Pac-Man-like blob fleeing ghosts in a maze.
People who can explain how Ms Pac-Man was only a feminist gaming icon after the fact, a bootleg dressed up as filler between the original arcade game and Super Pac-Man, taking advantage of the numerous female competitors at arcade tournaments.
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Others sites will offer pay-per-play classic games such as Asteroids and Pac Man, and others will offer cinema and theatre tickets or ring tones and icons.
Nintendo's conference was like a retirement home for classic game developers as Toru Iwatani, the brains behind Pac-Man, played on-stage against Mario wunderkind, Shigeru Miyamoto, who is currently working on an all-new Pac-Man title.
Many a job was neglected for employees in their cubicles and for college students, classes either skipped or attended, but with a laptop in tow as the world caught on to that sweet, sweet Pac-Man fever.
"We're working as quickly as possible with our distributor partners to expand the availability of Pac-12 Now, " said Stevenson.
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And they'll make even more as the bulk of billion-dollar TV contracts flows into power conferences like the Pac-12, Big Ten and SEC.
Even the conference title was dampened, however, when Jordan Adams, whom Howland described as his team's best all-around player, was lost to a broken ankle in the Pac-12 tournament.
As every college football fan knows, the Big Ten Conference traditionally sends a representative to play a Pac-12 Conference team in the Rose Bowl.
In his four years as commissioner, Larry Scott has transformed the stately, sleepy Pacific-10 Conference into the big-business Pac-12, expanding the conference and quadrupling its annual television-rights revenue.
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His supporters also timed the launch of a new pro-Gingrich fundraising Super PAC fortuitously: Solutions 2012 officially got the ball rolling last night, just as Perry flopped onstage.
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Tiaria Griffin scored 13 points, and Shacobia Barbee added nine as the Lady Bulldogs turned in another superb defensive effort to stymie Stanford and ruin any hopes of a Pac-12 showdown with No. 2 seed California in the regional final.
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