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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><img src="../../images/icons/geek_final.jpg" width="193" height="239" align="left"><loonystart>Vol. 
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                  ACT Labs GS<font size="4"></font></font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
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                    <td><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Toy: 
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                      <b>Creator: </b><a href="http://www.act-labs.com/">ACT Labs</a><br>
                      <b>Average Price: </b>$89.99 </font></td>
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              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="../../images/letters_new/o.jpg" width="25" height="39" align="left">kay, 
                I&#146;ll say this right off the top. I consider myself a hardcore 
                gamer and I&#146;m pretty set in my ways. As an FPS gamer, I use 
                a keyboard and a mouse. Show me a new controller and I&#146;ll 
                show you the door. What could be simpler? </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But I 
                do play other games. I&#146;ll use a wheel for a racing game, 
                and I&#146;ll use a stick for a flight simulator. Get me in an 
                arcade and I&#146;ll even use a gun. Get that shocked look off 
                your face. Thus I&#146;m not totally opposed to using other controllers 
                depending on the game. So naturally I was curious when I was handed 
                the GS gun system from Act Labs. </font></p>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme>Lookit 
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The GS 
                comes with two guns, a base, and a little hand-held controller 
                I call the &#147;phaser&#148; as it looks just like the little 
                stun/kill weapon they use in <i>Star Trek: The Next-Generation</i>. 
                Straight out of the box the gun looks cool, in a futuristic sorta 
                fashion. I immediately held it up to the mirror and did my Blade 
                Runner impression. Oh yeah. We bad.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you&#146;re 
                like me, you hate reading manuals. A new toy is meant to be played 
                with! A cable plugs the base of the system into a regular game 
                port and there&#146;s another cable that is used as a VGA pass-through. 
                I felt a little leery about using a pass-through to my monitor, 
                but what the hey. It worked. There are three hand-held controllers 
                with the system, but oddly enough, there&#146;s only two ports 
                on the base to plug these controllers in. I was baffled by this 
                at the time, but in retrospect, I suppose I do only have 2 hands.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">With everything 
                plugged in and the software installed from the CD, nothing worked. 
                I couldn&#146;t even get Windows to recognize it. Beaten before 
                I even started, I decided to read the manual. First quirk: you 
                must remove all game controllers from your control panel for the 
                GS to be recognized. Says it in black and white. Second bit of 
                advice came from an email from my sexy bud at Act Labs, Eugene: 
                download all the latest of everything. Which isn&#146;t as simple 
                as it first sounded. Drivers for the GS needed to be downloaded, 
                as well as for each game that I wanted to play with it. Fortunately 
                (or unfortunately), the list of games that supports the GS is 
                kinda small right now. I downloaded the Glitterstream mod for 
                <b>Quake II </b>and the bundled game,<b> Top Shot</b>. For those 
                of you living up Aunt Beatrice&#146;s butt for the last 3 years, 
                <b>Quake II </b>is a top notch FPS game, and Top Shot is a type 
                of arcade shooter, not far displaced from the inevitable Duck 
                Hunt. Glitterstream also has a mod for <b>Half-Life</b>, and if 
                I can ever get my youngest to tell me what he&#146;s done with 
                my original CD, I may get around to trying it one day.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My first 
                taste of a working gun came through the calibration feature in 
                the control panel. A funny feeling came over me as a shot bullet 
                holes into my Windows desktop. Like, yeah, this feels good. The 
                gun is damn accurate, even when I pulled the gun back as far away 
                from my monitor as the cables allowed. Made me almost want to 
                figure out how to use the gun to navigate Windows instead of the 
                mouse.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Top Shot 
                is a fairly forgettable game. You sit back and fire shots at ducks, 
                or skeets, or pop-up bad guys, or what-have-you. I played it for 
                all of 10 minutes. Just long enough to know that the gun was working.</font></p>
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