i didn't make the article and ripped the title directly from the source

well i can only speak from my experiences and i can honestly say that on many occasions i have seen what i mentioned before, if you disagree well thats cool

Cracked.com is awesome. I can spend hours on that site reading articles.

tagged for future Sony copied this and that threads

good read. This goes to show you that timing is everything.

I knowed about MUDs obviously - I play them. Not often today, but that's a lot of fun if you like adventure-games and RPG and cool graphics is not that important. There are hundreds of MUDs out there, they cost nothing. But a very cool thing is, that they can be expanded dynamically. So new quests, monsters, NPCs etc. are added over time. You can play them without an end. That's why Multi Undergraduate Destroyer is a matching title. Try http://www.mudconnect.com/

That "touch-screen" seems not to be a real touch-screen. The name light-pen and the wiring of the pen to the console show, that they use another technology. CRTs (the technology the old bulky TVs use) is using a ray, that illuminates a pixel on the screen. Strong magnetic field deflect this ray, so it hits different pixels. It will be lead around the full screen, to hit each pixel, and the intensity of the ray is changed to make the pixel brighter or darker. Over time the pixel is getting darker, until it is hit again from the ray. That's why these things flicker. A "light-pen" has a simple camera, to detect this brightness refresh. If it is known which pixel is illuminated in this moment, you can reconstruct the position on the screen, the pen is pointing to. So no touch, but an early pointing device. But the use-cases are very similar.

The LCD-3D-thing is looking great. But I remember such LCD-games (not in 3D, I didn't know about that thing), and the gameplay is restricted, as the screen cannot be filled freely.

And who doesn't want to be the "Friend of Dolphins".