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//Source(s): Marvel "Amazing Spiderman" comics issue #300, May 1988// I remember when I was in the U.S in 1987, I played a game called "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future." It was a game that came on VHS videotape. You used a starship-shaped gun to fire at the screen; when you were hit, you "died," causing the canopy, pilot, and the chair to eject, thereby ending the game. In many ways this game was heads above others, especially considering how good the graphics were. Here's the advertisement: "DON'T JUST STAND THERE. FIRE BACK!
 * Dead medium: Kids' interactive television: "Captain Power"**
 * From: lauri@dawn.joensuu.fi  (Lauri Christopher Gardner)**

[picture] "Lord Dread(tm) is threatening the future of the human race! Captain Power(tm) battles him in every week on TV and he needs your help. "Grab your PowerJet XT-7(tm)... Fire invisible beams at enemy targets on his TV show...and SCORE! Or be hit! "This is not a test. The TV show WILL FIRE BACK! "Sure, you're good...but are you *great*? Get Captain Power interactive videotapes with three different skill levels. Practice with the PowerJet XT-7. And practice some more. "Are you going to help Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future(tm)? Or are you just going to stand there? "The Power of the future is in your hands!" Special 25th Anniversary Issue 300 issue of the Amazing Spider-man May, 1988 The game was done by Mattel. Lauri Christopher Gardner (lauri@dawn.joensuu.fi)