While many colleges’ top computer coders started duking it out this weekend at the International Collegiate Programming Contest, a number of young artists and designers took part in a rather more frivolous competition. Retro Redux, an event sponsored by the Parsons School of Design, gave students 24 hours to design their own video games for the Atari 2600—the system from the late 1970s that introduced such classic titles as "Centipede" and "Pong." The winning entry was "Ninja Garden," a game in which two dueling characters run through a grove throwing shuriken, or star-shaped weapons, at each other.
