Thanksgiving Calendar
BY AMY UCHTY
PULSE EDITOR
Forthose students sticking around
Lane County for Thanksgiving week
end, there are plenty of fun activities
going on. Forget about spending the
weekend studying because there's
something for everyone to enjoy.
Watching live theater is always a
great way to spend the evening, and in
this town there is no shortage of
amazing opportunities to see a play.
Starting tonight, "Chaps—A Jingle
Jangle Christmas" will be featured at
the Hult Center, located on Seventh
Avenue and Willamette Street in
downtown Eugene. This musical was
written by two Ashland playwrights,
Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hill
gartner, who have taken their already
successful musical "Chaps!" and
made it into a holiday spectacular.
"Chaps—A Jingle Jangle Christmas"
is presented by the Willamette Reper
tory Theatre. Tickets forthis perform
ance in the Soreng Theater can be
purchased for $15 to $35, but tonight's
special preview price is $12-20. There
will be no performance on Thursday.
Visitwww.hultcenter.org for ticket
purchasing information.
Another opportunity to see some live
theater is "Fully Committed" atthe Lord
Leebrick Theater at 540 Charnelton St
This play, which first began showing at
the beginning of this month, runs Friday
and Saturday for $16 and Sunday for
$12. To purchase tickets, call 465-1506
or for information requests, e-mail box
office@lordleebrick.com.
If seeing live music is how you'd
rather spend your weekend, fear not
There are plenty of bars around town
that will be open to satisfy your crav
ings. Tonight see the Clumsy Lovers
play some Celtic rock at 9 p.m. at Sam
Bond's Garage at 407 Blair Blvd.for$8.
On Friday at Sam Bond's catch Touch
Force, Varnish and Dan Jones and the
Squids at 9 p.m. for $5. On Saturday,
see The Sugar Beets at 9 p.m. with a
sliding scale cover charge of $7-$10.
On Sunday, stop by at 9 p.m. to play
some bingo with Tom and Scott K. for
no charge.
The Greencards are playing tonight
at John Henry's at7 p.m. Catch this
show at 77 West Broadway for $7 and
stick around for a reggae versus hip
hop battle between DJ Kal El and DJ
Tekneek at 10 p.m. with a cover charge
of $3. But show up early to save some
dough; guys get in free before 10 p.m.
and gals get in free until 11 p.m. This Fri
day is John Henry's Third Annual
Moustache Rally. Come complete with
mustache and pay$1 to see Burt
Reynolds Overdrive, a Turbonegro cov
er band, plus The Visible Men, The
Captain and Neal and Yeltsin at 10 p.m.
THANKSGIVING, page 7
PIXELATED ACTION FLOWS FREELY FROM THIS TAP
New service has gamers
downloading classic video
games to their PCs
BY ANDREW MCCOLLUM
PULSE REPORTER
Where do games go when they
get old? If Time Warner has any
thing to say about it, they'll go to
GameTap. Designed for broadband
equipped PCs, GameTap allows
subscribers to download and play
more than 300 games including
console, arcade and PC games, on
their computers.
GameTap launched in mid-October
with 24 publishers onboard, including
Ubisoft, Activision, Sierra, Namco and
Sega. The service is constantly
adding new titles.
Subscription is $14.95 a month, and
the service has offered free trials.
Although not every game on
GameTap is a hit, any gamer will be
able to appreciate the service's
sheer variety. From the arcade ver
sion of "Pac-Man" to the classic
PC turn-based strategy game "He
roes of Might and Magic IV" to the
cult-classic adventure-platformer
"Beyond Good & Evil."
The GameTap is also filled with
games from almost all Sega sys
tems, including the Master System,
Genesis, Dreamcast and even the
e/PAND YOUR PLAYGROUND.
Courtesy
ill-fated 32 X. The Sega games
make up some of the best in
the bunch.
The GameTap concept however,
isn't new. It smacks of Sega Channel.
In winter of 1994, Sega intro
duced Sega Channel, a peripheral
for the Sega Genesis that was
ahead of its time. Sega Channel, a
joint venture between Time Warner
and Sega, allowed subscribers to
download over 50 Sega Genesis
games to their system via a special
cartridge that hooked up to a regu
lar phone line. The service was a hit
among game lovers because it al
lowed them to play many great and
hard-to-find Genesis games.
GameTap players are going to want
to get a USB controller. It is possible to
play the games with a keyboard, but
for many of the games, a controller is
necessary. There is a list of con
trollers that are supported on the site
www.gametap.com.
The time it takes to download a
game ranges from a few seconds to a
few hours, depending on the game.
Obviously, the Windows version of
"Splinter Cell" is going to take longer
than Genesis' "Comix Zone." Thank
fully, GameTap doesn'ttake up a lot of
system resources when it downloads,
GAMETAP, page 8
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GRAND OPENING TONIGHT
Open by the former
Mill Camp Partners.
Every Wednesday
traditional
Mill Camp specials.