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- <title>
- May 20, 1991: Games People Play
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Games People Play
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> A tour of the world's latest offerings, from appalling to
- zany:
- </p>
- <p> RUSHIN' RUSSIAN. Test your vocabulary by filling in the
- correct Russian words in each story. For every set of this U.S.
- pencil-and-paper game sold this spring, the manufacturer will
- put one ruble into Boris Yeltsin's campaign chest.
- </p>
- <p> CATECHIC. The winner is the first player to circle the
- cathedral and reach the Virgin Mary; cheaters must head for the
- confessional. This French board game has the Vatican's blessing.
- </p>
- <p> BACTERIA PANIC. The medical version of Old Maid deals out
- "sickness cards" illustrated with grisly images of ringworm,
- gonorrhea and--for the big loser--AIDS. But widespread
- outrage is forcing the Japanese manufacturer to pull the game
- off the shelves.
- </p>
- <p> LITE 'N UP. Just in time for the bikini season comes a
- "diet survival" board game that pits players against the
- spinning "wheel of willpower." Beware! You may wallow
- indefinitely in Restaurant Row.
- </p>
- <p> NAZI VIDEOS. A big hit with young German and Austrian
- skinheads, these underground video games polish such management
- skills as how to run a death camp more efficiently.
- </p>
- <p> NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Players can blow Murdoch and Maxwell
- off the newsstand by creating their own tacky tabloids. And
- they don't have to worry about pesky lawsuits from Liz or
- Roseanne.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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