Fancy playing a computer game against Bill Clinton? Philips thinks that
adding digital photos of your opponents would spice things up (EP 864 342). A
camera in a games console takes a picture which is stored and displayed on
screen. If the console is linked to others over the Internet, the pictures of
all the competing players appear on screen, so you can see your adversaries. The
game can be even more interesting, says Philips, if faces of a few personalities
鈥渟uch as President Clinton鈥 also appear, perhaps grafted onto the bodies of
fighter pilots or racing drivers. Bill & Monica鈥檚 Excellent
Adventure cannot be far off.
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