Now, with a new pirate game, fans are jazzed about the potential, and they should be.
Yet even if some institutional investors felt let down, Facebook's early venture-capital investors were jazzed.
Everyone gets a little jazzed when their crew is playing evil Bill Belichick and his Patriots.
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But the crowd of potential customers seemed genuinely jazzed by what Scient had to offer.
Intel faces some marketing challenges in getting consumers jazzed up about performance per watt.
And there were times he wasn't so jazzed about much else at the office, either.
Palin jazzed the base and set a pick for McCain to cast himself as a maverick reformer.
But if you're already jazzed about Windows 8, you should at least consider waiting for those touch models.
What's different in recent years is how these companies go about getting people jazzed up about their products.
To recover lost ground, Bajaj drew on technology from Kawasaki and jazzed up its portfolio, emphasizing premium motorcycles.
"I couldn't sleep last night, I was so pumped, so jazzed, " says the billionaire cofounder of PC maker Gateway.
How do those requiring effort, skill and imagination differ from jazzed-up everyday pursuits?
Lukas Blakk loves open-source, and was especially jazzed about trying to get the Kinect to work via a browser plugin.
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But it's still just a subset of NCAA tournament fans that will be jazzed up by digging through the old stuff.
The Alaska governor jazzed the conservative base, and she also set a pick for McCain to recast himself as a maverick reformer.
Norman clearly enjoys the only nod to opera on the new disc, a jazzed-up version of the "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen.
Darrow jazzed up the graphics, laying out the board on a circular oilcloth, with colored bands at the top of each property grouping.
If you get all jazzed up about a mysterious placebo effect, that positive thinking may help you feel even slightly better on subjective scales.
Buffett is particularly jazzed about his acquisition last year of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which is enjoying a strong rebound in profits and freight traffic.
Talk to people who make PC components about the prospects for the second half, and they are jazzed about the potential for a huge PC-replacement cycle.
But, according to reporting in the New York Times, some employees at Apple, headquartered in Cupertino, are more jazzed about the firing of Scott Forstall.
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Clearly, nobody is going to get jazzed into relinquishing loopholes in exchange for a shaving of the corporate tax rate and a skyward march in income-tax rates.
It's shocking to watch travelers enter the line all smiley and jazzed about a vacation or career opportunity only to emerge exhausted, disheveled, angry and possibly late.
Oh, sure -- this has certainly been tried before, but given that things like this need a critical mass of followers to be effective, we're particularly jazzed about Google's own initiative.
Owner Tony Pak has jazzed up his sprawling, 8, 000-square-foot second floor space with a bubbling stone fountain, koi pond, lounge pit, Asian statuary, Internet kiosks, animal sculptures and plastic floral wreaths.
Whether anyone will brave a jazzed-up Erdem print on Sunday remains to be seen, but if Michelle Obama can wear him on the world stage, then Hollywood should be a cakewalk.
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For dinner, put on your best dress or dinner jacket and head over to the El San Juan Resort and Casino located in Isla Verde to dine at Koco, a modern Caribbean restaurant serving jazzed-up island dishes.
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And, given the restrictions that are removed when you're able to produce material for a specific and highly mobile audience, we're personally jazzed to see what kind of creativity is allowed to flourish in such a brave, new world.
This would have quickly become tiresome, but a whole virtual affair between co-workers who were, to our knowledge, never romantically involved, jazzed up Bets' dishing and it became office tradition to spend a few minutes in the lunch room checking in with Bets.
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