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...buildup, Mattel is rolling out a line of seven interactive products led by three Barbie programs. Analyst John Taylor of Arcadia Investment expects Barbie to be among the top software entertainment programs this Christmas. Unlike such shoot-'em-up, beat-'em-up boy toys as Doom and Mortal Kombat, the Barbie titles are notably pacific and based on creative play. "The demand will be many times higher than Mattel thinks it will be," predicts Gary Jacobson, a senior vice president at the brokerage Jefferies & Co., who has followed Mattel for a decade. "The orders [from retailers] are large...
Eilenberg then turned, raised his fist in the air and screamed "Mortal Kombat" repeatedly until University Health Services officials arrived on the scene to transport him to McLean Hospital...
Rule No. 2: Remake what didn't work. Transferring popular video games to the big screen, for example, has proved expensive and unproductive -- witness the Super Mario Brothers and Streetfighter films. Undaunted, New Line is bringing the mano-a-macho belligerents of Mortal Kombat to movie life. And what's with all these kilts? First Rob Roy, then Gibson's Braveheart. It's one more genre, like westerns (and astronaut films), that studios make mostly because veteran stars and directors want to. Walter Hill has a new western, Wild Bill, with Jeff Bridges, and the principals hope it will imitate...
Violence fascinates and excites us. From the yearly Schwarzenegger blockbuster movie to the Mortal Kombat Super Nintendo phenomenon, we teach American children that murder is acceptable, as long as it is funny, or clever, or amusing. Yet we expect them to understand when we say that the Oklahoma City incident was none of these things. Moreover, we introduce them to the tools of real murder, and expect them not to carry out the lessons they learned from their video games. Stories of children killing children far too often mar the front pages of national newspapers...
...years, members of Harvard's first-year classes have trooped down to the Union basement after dinner for a dessert of pinball and pool. The room features nine game machines, including the popular Mortal Kombat...