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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Did I only imagine this?? (Winky Dink)
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 00:49:16 EST
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> From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)

>>  ... about Winky Dink and the plastic thing on the TV screen ...
>>
>>					Evelyn C. Leeper

> As far as I can tell, this is probablly one of the few experiments in
> interactive television.  Can anyone think of any other BROADCAST examples?
> I know cable does things like voting and polling in some areas.  Does
> anyone have any first-hand experiences with these?

On WPIX Channel 11 in NYC, they sometimes play a game called TV Pixx.  (Kids
play it usually.)  To play, something like a spaceship flies across the screen
through a sight and a kid has to call up and say "Pixx" while the ship is in
the sight.  If they say "Pixx" while the ship is in the sight, the ship is
destroyed and the kids win something like a bicycle.

This may not be an accurate description but I never really paid attention to
the game.
-- 
			... hey, we've gotta get out of this place,
    			    there's got to be something better than this ...

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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