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From: falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
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Subject: Re: computer games & women/girls
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Date: 12 Apr 91 21:15:46 GMT
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In article <8y+gmsm@rpi.edu> cook@rpi.edu (Cathi A Cook) writes:

>I _KILL_ at computer games, and have since I was about 15. (Before
>that there really weren't any computer games to speak of, except
>maybe "Pong"). 

I concur.  The champion video-game player in my college was a woman,
and she had something like two or three times the the score of the
next higher player.  When I came to this job, the champion hack player
(again, by a large margin) was a woman; it took me *months* to beat
her, and I don't think she was trying very hard.

Anybody remember the girl playing the video games in 'Brother From
Another Planet'?

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com

In the future, somebody will quote Andy Warhol every 15 minutes.