transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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In the world it entered — one without any of its charming, and no longer disreputable, offspring — Spacewar! must have been transfixing.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2012