Today's Topics:
Mindbender
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 13:01:17 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9206081701.AA28883@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Mindbender
from comp.risks:
I've had up on my door an article from the 4/14/92 Weekly World News an
American tabloid) with a headline: "Girl, 13, kidnaped by her computer!" Here
is an excerpt:
A desperate plea for help on a computer screen and a
girl vanishing into thin air has everyone baffled ---
and a high-tech computer game is the prime suspect.
Game creator and computer expert Christian Lambert
believes a glitch in his game Mindbender might have
caused a computer to swallow 13-year-old Patrice
Toussaint into her computer.
"Mindbender is only supposed to have eight levels,"
Lambert said. "But this one version somehow has an
extra level. A level that is not supposed to be there!
The only thing I can figure out now is that she's
playing the ninth level --- inside the machine!"....
Lambert speculates that if she is in the computer, the
only way out for her is if she wins the game. But
it's difficult to know for sure how long it will take,
Lambert said.
"As long as her parents don't turn off the machine
Patrice will be safe," he said. "The rest is up to her."
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