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THE RETRIEVER SEPTEMBER 30, 1986 PAGE 3 ENTERTAINMENT Photon brings video game to life by William Ward A science fiction movie? A book? A game. keeps in contact with your chest com- writer's hallucinations? All wrong. Afterwards, warriors are equipped puter by radio. You get 10 points for with 20 pounds of high-tech gear, I stalked silently through the dark This is the world of Photon, the disrupting (hitting) an opponent and including a sensor filled helmet, which mist, Phaser clutched tightly in my "high-tech participatory space battle 200 points for disrupting the enemy right hand. I was on a catwalk above game," located off beltway exit 41 on includes radio frequency receivers; a base (a basketball sized half-globe Northpoint Boulevard. chest computer pod that contains fitted with lights). If you hit one of the enemy base, and below I could see microprocessor chips that register the some of my comrades, working in Photon is played in a two-story, your own team members you lose 30 12,000 square foot, indoor complex, players score; a power pack belt; and points. When you are hit by an enemy twos, as they took their turns disrupt- the Phaser gun, which uses a light ing the glowing base-globe. that is filled with ramps, bunkers, warrior you lose 10 points, and your beam to disrupt enemy opponents. A sudden movement to my right! halls, tunnels, and plenty of fog. The phaser is rendered inactive for 5 se- arena is equipped with discothesque After selecting aliases (the names, The telltale red glow of an enemy conds.
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