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From the CHI exhibition floor: a multi-player Collapse table

Like Simon on steroids, the collaborative Apart Game Console is an OC button-pusher's dream (other than the germs . . . maybe if it were Windexed regularly?). You stand around a circular platform with four or so other people and play one of eight games (including the one we never ever played at work, Collapse). Lights on the panels "fall" along columns from the center to the edges, and when three of the same color are adjacent, you hit one to clear them from the board. The group garners one score, and (at least the times I played) the reaching got a little friendly as the speed increased. The table can also synthesize rhythms -- each column corresponds to a sound, depending on which panels are lighted.

A review of the table, auto-translated from Dutch to English, contains the following exemplary passages:

Of all genres on the 'computer' we can say with rested heart that the gezelschapspel have flopped most. Does it lie to the direct port of the kitchen table to Windows-bureaublad or is it the concept?

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Started with gamen in trainer nappy and probably also this way will finish, including trainer nappy.