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Gamers in the Game by: Jonathan Bentz Sometimes at night, while I sleep, I dream that I am the point guard on Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls. Other nights, I bat cleanup for the Chicago White Sox. If that isn't busy enough, I still often find time to quarterback Jimmy Johnson's Dallas Cowboys. The bad thing about my dreams: they end. By no means am I a professional athlete. Yet almost every night, I watch myself on TV draining three pointers, hitting towering home runs, and throwing sky scraping touchdown passes with the best in the game. I realize all my sports dreams are make believe. I live for life's little pleasures. The tiny light at the end of my tunnel is thanks to today's digital technology. I can become a professional athlete by creating myself in a video game. I'm not the only person to do it, or to have ever done it. Joffrey Lupul is a winger for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. In addition, he is also a featured athlete in EA Sports' NHL 2004. 'I used to create my own player and try to make it look as much like me as possible,'¯ said Lupul in an interview with John Gaudiosi of ESPN Gamer. 'I guess now I won't have to do that.'¯ Sports video games have been evolving since 'Pong,'¯ a tennis-like game where two players use long bars to defend their end of the screen from what vaguely resembles a ball. It debuted on the Atari game system in 1976. In '2003
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