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SI.com: Jeff Pearlman: Fame can be dangerous; just look at the athletes ruined by it

"I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed." -- Rosie O'Donnell

CNNMoney: The sad, slow fall of Atari

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Atari was king of the video game mountain. Now it's barely the court jester.

Business 2.0: New Life for Old Games By creating a market for plug-and-play videogames, Jakks Pacific has built a bustling $66 million busines

When Jakks Pacific, the nation's fourth-largest toymaker, bought Long Island-based Toymax in 2002, it picked up the rights to some pool toys, a karaoke machine, and a laser-tag system. But it wasn'...

CNNMoney: Return of the quarter gobblers

LOS ANGELES (CNN/Money) - I was a Pac Man baby.

Money Magazine: Atari Redux

When I was 11, I was obsessed with Atari home video games, especially an insects-in-space shoot-'em-up called Yars' Revenge. It was the hot game in the summer of '82, but it cost more than $32 (abo...

Business 2.0: The Entertainer SKYWORKS TECHNOLOGIES Old Idea: Games are diversions. New Idea: Games are brand-builders.

If the banner ad isn't dead, it certainly has a hacking cough: According to a recent DoubleClick survey, the clickthrough rate for a simple GIF banner is a practically pointless 0.27 percent--and s...

Fortune: Generation X Meets Dr. Strangelove

When the world comes to an end, they're going to call Chris Roome, 26, for tech support. He's not a soldier but vice president of engineering for Video Networks in Gaithersburg, Md., which builds m...

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