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Press & Publications

2002: Shelby Logan's
Run, Seattle

Games Magazine - August 2000
Mike Selinker

2000: VQuest, Seattle

Rolling Stone Magazine - August 16, 2001
Mike Finkel

A huge, comprehensive article describing Team Khaki's experience at VQuest 2000.

Note: these are large scans of each page... ~280K each.

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Stanford Magazine - August 2000

#72 of "101 Things You Must Do Before Graduating"

Seattle Times - August 13 & 14, 2000
Florangela Davila, Frank Vinluan

August 13- web article August 14 - web article
August 14 - scanned

"We just raised $250,000 for them (Vision Youth) -- you've gotta love it!" - Kim Ambrose, Vision Youth Development

Eastside Journal - August 17, 2000
Cydney Gillis

"From taking a ride in the Alaska Airlines flight simulator to walking on the roof of the Space Needle, the stunts were more daring, the clues more difficult."

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Wired News - August 15, 2000
Manny Frishberg

"It's the most intense way to have fun that I know of," said Team Purple's Bruce Oberg...

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1999: NIT2000, New York

Seattle Times - July 4, 1999
Paul Andrews

Follow-up article on the communications gear used by Game Teams, and its implications on technology for consumer use.

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Seattle Times - Big Apple, big game, nearly big trouble for Microsofties
July 4, 1999 - Paul Andrews

Article on the actual Game...

"When janitorial services discovered the fake bomb materials in the basement of the hotel, they called security. Authorities briefly evacuated part of the basement and a floor of the hotel as a precaution, and the episode made TV news."

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New York Times - June 21, 1999
Julian E. Barnes

"...a group of highly unusual tourists turned New York City into their own private game board over the weekend, racing from one borough to the next on a frantic 24-hour mission that was half spy chase, half mind-bending puzzle."

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1998: ISETV, Los Angeles

How the Web was Won - June 20, 1999
Paul Andrews

As they were victorious in their mission to get Microsoft to notice the Internet, so were the members of the Pink Team victorious in the ISETV game. In the epilogue of his book, Paul Andrews describes the Game and how it reflects the hi-tech culture of the internet battles.

Scanned pages
Buy this book on Amazon.com

Micronews - 6/5/98

Wow... win the game, get your picture on the cover of the Microsoft Micronews! 15 minutes of fame for the Men-in-Pink... who says you don't get anything for coming in first!

Scanned story

Los Angeles Times -- 5/23/98
Karen Kaplan

Story providing Game background on the day the game actually happened. (Doesn't cover the actual event.)

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"It's like playing secret agent for a day" - J Gwertzman
"...extreme sports for techno-geeks" - J Miksovsky
"Pure bragging rights" - K Ota

1997: Thanatos Society, Seattle

San Jose Mercury News - July 13, 1997
Michelle Quinn

The Game got full front- and back-page coverage of their Silicon Valley Life section... and the ironic thing is that the event actually happened in SEATTLE and not in Silicon Valley! Lots of decent photos from the Game, but unfortunate they followed a team that came in 7th place out of 10....

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Page 2 (scan) Full Size - 610K
Clue-sample sidebar (scan)
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Quotes:
"the Ultimate Test for modern-day Renaissance men and women" - JoeB

"the combination lock looks like a pig" -?

1990: The Final Objective, San Francisco

Stanford Daily - 6/5/90

First ever printed press for the game. Andrew Burke, the author, is now a regular player... funny how that happens.

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6:00 News

5:00 News

KRON Channel 4 News - May 17, 1990
San Francisco

Enterprising reporter Karl Sonkin decided he'd try to follow the teams of BARF VI in the KRON News van. Lucky for Karl, the first 2+ hours of the game were taking place on-foot in San Francisco... so the KRON News team was able to broadcast live on the 5pm and 6pm news, showing game players in action.

After the players recovered their cars, the news van somehow wasn't able to stay on their trail. Hmm... I wonder why.

6:00 News Report (2.5 MB - requires Windows Media Player) - includes video of GameControl stuffing envelopes, Game start, etc.
5:00 News Report (3.1 MB - requires Windows Media Player) - includes Game start and two "sample clues".

NOTE: the videos were recorded in the days of TV-antennas. The picture quality isn't good.