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From: jss@ihu1e.UUCP (Smith)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Psychology and morality: more on the game-based office.
Message-ID: <584@ihu1e.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 13:13:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 13:13:13 1985
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> In article <577@calgary.UUCP> greenberg@calgary.UUCP (Saul Greenberg) writes:
> 
> >                             .... As an example, one
> >study looked at individual differences between male and female reaction
> >to video games. The findings suggest that while males react strongly to
> >a "shoot-em down" game, female reaction is generally negative. The
> >result - develop a "female-oriented" game.
>  
> Indeed.  The Pac-Man video game, one of the first commercial video games to
> use a non-"shoot-em-up" paradigm, was also very popular with women.  
	...
Not a "shoot-em-up" but an "eat-em-up"? I am not sure that I see the
difference.
-- 
J. S. Smith AT&T IW
	There are lots of opinions around this place, but these 
	are mine and no one else's (pitty the poor soul if they 
	do share mine.)