The Pentagon Goes to the Video Arcade - video games used as military training

Progressive, The, July, 1999 by Kara Platoni

Interactive three-dimensional software keeps developing, and it's becoming part of mainstream military training. Quantum3D's Giordano puts it this way: "If this is television, it's like 1949 or 1950. The television was there. It worked. It was very expensive." He pauses. "And in a matter of two or three years, it was going to be in 25 percent of homes in America."

Kara Platoni is a writer based in Oakland, California.