Word: nintendos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lately, however, 64-bit consoles like Nintendo and PlayStation have lost a little of their punch. Maybe it's because PC games have improved so fast--along with PCs themselves--while the quality of the consoles has stood still. Or maybe it's the advent of the more powerful 128-bit Sega Dreamcast that my pals and I have been testing...
...mobile-entertainment center will give us some other options to pursue as the kids get older too. It's got room for a Nintendo system, which I've resisted even at home in favor of allegedly more thought-provoking computer games, and a second stereo system in the rear so that the relentless strains of 'N-sync won't drive the old folks up front 'N-sane. Happily, there's a headphone jack near every seat for music and games as well as TV. On this trip, all passengers will be issued a pair of headphones as they enter...
...1990s weapons in their inventory." Though China's procurement officials are easy to spot working the Paris Air Show and other military fests, they are mostly window shopping. The P.L.A. has sampled some 1970s-era high-tech toys like Soviet Su-27 jets, but most of the cool new Nintendo military gear is out of its price range or on forbidden export lists in the West. In the aftermath of the Cox report, it will probably be even harder for China to buy sophisticated weapons systems...
...their whizziest and often most bloodthirsty stuff. But parents hoping to keep guns and guts off their PC and TV screens will have plenty of other choices, judging from the strong lineup of family-friendly fare. Disney will debut its new Tarzan action game for the PC, PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Maxis will present The Sims, a fresh take on the company's SimCity3000 franchise--you still play God, but now you run (or ruin) the lives of those itty-bitty folk who live in your computer. Crafty adults will like Wrebbit's jigsaw puzzles: fit the pieces together onscreen...
That was a fairly typical exchange between my 12-year-old son Nat and me back in January, at the height of his obsession with the Nintendo 64 game Legend of Zelda. We followed that script most nights. And it typically ended in his death--or rather that of his sword-wielding surrogate, the great man-boy hero Link...