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...first steady." So when Dave opened her doors to Monica, she rushed in, with all her vulnerabilities. She clung to the family, and Adam in particular, spending much of the next five years in their Bel Air house, swimming in the pool or watching the Dave boys play Nintendo and often engaging in long heart-to-hearts with Laraine, even counseling Dave about her stepdaughter. "She was Johnny-on-the-spot for us," Dave says. But Monica's family problems, compounded by those of adolescence, resulted in large weight gains (she was almost 225 lbs. at one point). To mask...
...winning the video-game war between Sony's Playstation and the Nintendo64? Depends on whom you ask. Sony says it's sold more units this year, but Nintendo disputes the figures. Sony has sold more since the Playstation was introduced--6.4 million to Nintendo's 4 million--but it came out a year earlier. The Nintendo64 is more powerful, but has only 43 games, in contrast to hundreds for the Playstation. But both sides agree the industry will smash its sales record of $4.7 billion set in 1994. Who says war is hell...
...those words. But I'm flat tired of losing my top talent to competitors. Our dollhouse team moved on to bigger things: building real houses in the Sunbelt. The Gap poached hundreds of our point-of-sale reps, signing them to lucrative deals to man its cash registers. Nintendo wooed away our Year 2000 computer debuggers to design next-generation Diddy Kong. In today's tight labor market, such skills are tough to replace. I've located a few jobless elves in Asia, but we're far better off giving up a little on the bottom line to keep...
Imagine what would happen if they watched The Nanny. Last Tuesday 600 Japanese children were hospitalized after going into convulsions triggered by the optical effects of an episode of POKEMON, a cartoon based on a Nintendo game. Later that night 100 more kids went down after the news showed clips from the program. Flashing lights have long been known to trigger photosensitive epilepsy. In this case the reaction seems to have been brought on by the combination of the graphics, the children's age, and the way many Japanese TV viewers sit really close to giant screens...
...simple gazing begins to wear thin, home-theater converts can sample a more aggressive brand of entertainment. Set-top boxes like WebTV bring the Net's resources side by side with sitcoms and football, while video games from Nintendo and Sony move computer shoot-'em-ups to the big screen. Seasoned couch potatoes need not be worried about leaving their comfortable perches: new keyboards are now wireless...