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February 11: I am now in UHS. It's dark in here with all the electricity shut off. I wonder where I can get hold of a pocket-sized Nintendo game with portable TETRIS...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Confessions of a TETRIS Junkie | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

Most likely to turn your child into a space cadet. At first, home video games were supposed to be educational, teaching the kids computer literacy and all that. Then came Nintendo, purveyor of the Super Mario Bros., to revitalize the world market for mindless alien blasting. Parents now suspect that there is something disturbingly addictive about these amusements, but at least they keep the kids off the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Most of the Decade | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...should help those in the Soviet Union who are doing the right thing." But is Gorbachev really a convert to those ideals we consider the "right things" -- political pluralism, individual rights and a free-market economy? Whoever believes that will believe Santa Claus is bringing my grandchildren the $150 Nintendo sets I am buying them for Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Help Gorbachev? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...months. We can't do anything about it then either. All of you should just calm down and think about something that we can actually have an effect on--like nuclear disarmament or Third World human rights violations. Read a book if you don't like activism. Play Nintendo. I don't care. Just leave me alone...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: When Choice Isn't Anything | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...graphics are very interesting with simulated 3-D effects which make it very fascinating and lifelike," says Eric Oehler, who provides people walking by Cabot House with a showcaseof Nintendo on his room's big screen...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Of Super Marios and Zeldas | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

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