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Article: Games; I Was Travis Bickle
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- The Stranger
- Article date:
- May 26, 2005
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When I fly alone, I put on a sleep mask and a pair of earplugs to eradicate my awareness of living through time. Then I travel through the sky, lost in my own head, where at least the food is better. Walking the floor of E3, the enormous video-game expo in Los Angeles, is the exact opposite: Sensory overload forces you out of your skull and you are compelled to engage with every palm-sweat-sticky controller that comes your way.
One such controller was attached to Taxi Driver, Majesco's new game based on the film. Video-game publishers have announced many such projects recently, and games based on The Godfather, Jaws, and even From Russia with Love are all on their way. After playing Taxi ...
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......and not the "nuts" and "radicals" that so alarm society. Taxi Driver is Martin Scorsese's frighteningly plausible case history of such a person. Robert De Niro plays Travis Bickle, a night cabbie who prowls the NY streets, stopping for...probably wrong to project ahead and shudder that, some day, ...
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