LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Ricochet
built 814 days ago
Game description: The award-winning game play of Ricochet Lost Worlds is back! From the talented minds of designers all over the world comes the most dynamic brick-busting experience ever! This wild and warped game has you smashing your way through over 350 beautiful and exhilarating rounds that are truly the best of the best. With its gorgeous artwork and innovative "Ring Game", you need to download it today. Rejuvenated, Reloaded...RECHARGED!
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Whether you want to make the Olympic Team or get younger kids into slalom, or just have a super lightweight, fun to paddle, fast kayak the Ricochet is a great place to start. Made in the USA it is easy to cut down to size and get you your boat in a timely manner so you can spend more time paddling and less time waiting. If you don’t yet have a Ricochet, what you are waiting for? They are being built and shipped to your favorite rivers and slalom courses today! This is the ultimate boat for kids. It was designed to be cut down from a medium size (Full cut) to a small size (junior cut) and to the extra small size (cadet cut).
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Formerly known as Metricom, Ricochet in the late 1990s spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a 176 kilobits per second nationwide wireless Web network. Original investors included Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures. The first incarnation of the service attracted just 50,000 subscribers, too few to keep going. The service was purchased by its current owners, then called Aerie Networks, for pennies on the dollar two years ago. It has since relaunched the commercial network in Denver and San Diego.
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At its height, in early 2001, Ricochet service was available in Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis, New York City and surrounding New Jersey, Philadelphia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Over 51,000 subscribers paid for the service. In July 2001... Ricochet's owner, Metricom, abruptly ceased service. The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in August 2001. Like many companies during the dot-com boom, Metricom had spent more money than it took in and concentrated on a nationwide rollout and massive marketing instead of developing select markets (similar to Webvan).
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The Ricochet's 128 kbps connection is available in Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco's Bay Area and San Diego. A 28.8 kbps service is available in Washington, D.C., Seattle and Manhattan. Metricom plans on making the service available in 25 more cities by the end of 2001.
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Taking the classic game of Breakout and turning it on its ear, Ricochet is outstanding arcade fun. There's no learning curve--just keep the ball bouncing and blast away the space-age bricks. A vast collection of board patterns and uniquely behaving blocks keep the simple game from going stale. The slick 3D graphics and thumping electronic soundtrack keep things lively as well. The most addictive aspect of the game... is the vast array of power-ups. Any busted brick could unleash a bomb, laser gun, or fireball to get the job done that much faster.
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