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When Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo, bid $100 million to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team last week, baseball commissioner Fay Vincent all but dismissed the offer, saying it was "unlikely that foreign investors" would win approval. Although by week's end Vincent had softened his position, his initial reaction reflected the nation's mood. In Japan- battered Michigan, where antagonism runs deep among autoworkers, U.A.W. Local 900 in Wayne made its own small stand for America last week, pushing foreign cars to a back parking lot at the local Ford plant. Around the nation, companies are offering incentives...
Some parents even purchase bicycles and Nintendo sets for Kwanzaa gifts; they rationalize the excess by buying from black-owned businesses. That, they say, is in the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics. "This is the U.S., and if anything becomes successful, it almost automatically becomes commercial," says Copage. "Doing otherwise is like trying to surf without getting...
Tetris seems proper, and Nintendo...
American parents are rightly worried about their kids' leisure life, built around Saturday-morning cartoons and Nintendo. There are 36 million children in the U.S. ages 2 to 11; they watch an average of 24 hours of TV a week and devote less and less energy to active recreation. Nationwide cutbacks in education budgets are making the problem worse, as gym classes and after-hours sports time get squeezed. Says Discovery Zone president Jack Gunion: "We have raised a couple of generations of pure couch potatoes...
...play all manner of games and run interactive programs. Five years in the making, the VCR-size unit joins CDTV, | a similar machine that was introduced by Commodore in January, and CD-ROM, a system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine. "After years of public relations hype," says David Bunnell, publisher of a start-up magazine called NewMedia, "multimedia finally is for real...