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Article: Potatoes No More! TELEVISION: The technology for interactive TV is all set. But viewers, used to sitting back on the couch, may not be ready.
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- Newsweek
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- December 16, 2002
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Byline: Fred Guterl
Albert Chung had raced the five-mile track in Mugello, Italy, so many times he knew just what the other motorcyclists competing against him were going to do--before they did it. That's because they weren't real motorcyclists; they were virtual ones in the videogame MotoGP. Despite all the artificial-intelligence tricks programmers have at their disposal, players of even modest skill and experience can suss out videogames not long after tearing off the shrink wrap. Recently, Chung, a 20-year-old employee at Electronic Boutique in Phoenix, who doubles as a videogame tester for Xbox Live, got his hands on a not-yet-released version of MotoGP ...