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Video programmers are hard at work writing the next generation of video game programs. Of course they’re trying to come up with exciting, clever games to top Pac-Man and other current favorites, but they've also got other innovations in mind.

September 2, 1982
Larry Kaplan

ONE STEP BEYOND

Video programmers are hard at work writing the next generation of video game programs. Of course they’re trying to come up with exciting, clever games to top Pac-Man and other current favorites, but they've also got other innovations in mind.

They know that there are only so many variations they can use to please the eye/ hand/brain with current technology. So white they concentrate on writing new games, they're also considering how to improove the basic ways the games themselves work.

ere are some of the items either on the ting boards or in research and develnt:

rligher quality images. Using new ory storage techniques, the programare attempting to create computers remember more and have more ory capacity—for the . greater the ory the greater the sophistication of urogram —and the better the image on the screen.

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