Word: aladdins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sales of a single hit can top $500 million. Last week players from Times Square to Paris to Tokyo queued up in stores to buy Mortal Kombat, one of the hottest (and most violent) games ever made. In the next few weeks, Disney/MGM will release the game version of Aladdin; Propaganda Films will debut Voyeur, a new kind of adult-oriented interactive movie; and a start-up company named 3DO will launch the riskiest merger of games and multimedia yet, with a $699 superpowered machine designed to blast the market into new levels of graphic reality and financial risk...
...Aladdin, which may be the most beautiful video game ever made, features the first game characters hand-drawn by Disney's studio artists. Aladdin's release will be closely tied to that of the home-video version of the movie, which Disney predicts will be the best-selling videotape in history...
...shows out of video-game characters (witness this summer's Super Mario Brothers feature and the two Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon shows coming this fall), and kids assume that any film or series with any action in it will come out in a game cartridge within six months. Besides Aladdin, vidkids this Christmas will be able to choose from games based on Cliffhanger, Last Action Hero, Ren and Stimpy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Home Improvement, Jurassic Park and a whole subgenre of Bart Simpson adventures, including The Simpsons: Escape from Camp Deadly, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, Bart vs. the Space...
...Walt Disney Co. has agreed that in videos of its cartoon hit Aladdin it will change song lyrics describing the hero's native land as a place "where they cut off your ear/ If they don't like your face/ It's barbaric, but hey, it's home." Because Disney is not eliminating the "barbaric" line, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which brought the complaint, is still complaining...
...Boston Pops treatment suits the Disney catalog, which boasts six Oscar winners, from When You Wish upon a Star (Pinocchio) through Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (Song of the South) to A Whole New World (Aladdin). The costumes are meticulous, right down to the tiny red bow on Minnie Mouse's knickers. The oversize character heads bring coos of recognition from the littlest audience members. And the numbers are neatly sung and danced...