I was at Great America yesterday (doing my weekly market
         research, of course), and I noticed a "spacey" new "attraction"
         called LazerTron (I think). It is not in the same area as the
         midway and the bank of Final Laps, but is next to the Edge. It
         costs $3 for one person or $5 for a team of two people and lasts
         about 3 minutes. (There was no line forming at this attraction!)

         After you pay your money, you are given a battery operated
         gun about 2 feet long. You are given the instructions "when
         you see a robot, shoot him right between the eyes". When the
         doors open, you go into a darkened room. A light goes on
         illuminating one of about 10 robots -- lights flash if you
         get him between the eyes. The robots (just sitting there, not
         moving) light up randomly all around you for about 45
         seconds, then you are told to go to the next room. There are
         a total of 3 rooms.  (This whole attraction is the size of an
         RV trailer.) When you leave the third room and go back
         outside, you can see a TV monitor that displays your score
         and the last 5 scores.

         It was basically Whac-a-Mole or a shooting gallery. It was
         not much fun and far too expensive. It could only work where
         you have a steady stream of "suckers".

         John