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Merchandisers are racing to cash in on what is shaping up as the next pop- culture craze after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A Nintendo video-game version of Gladiators is being readied for release this month. Topps is planning to come out with trading cards of the 10 gladiators. Newhall Merchandising Concepts, Inc., is whipping up American Gladiators Juniors vitamins for young gladiator wannabes. And Mattel is introducing a line of toys that includes miniature gladiator action figures and small-scale models of events such as the obstacle course, known as the Eliminator. In Hollywood fevered brains...
Lotteries are already a "painless" way for states to raise revenue, but Minnesota may have found the easiest method yet. Next year the state's lottery, with the help of Control Data Corp., will test-market a system linking as many as 10,000 Nintendo video-game sets to the lottery's computers via phone lines. For a $200 advance deposit, money-mad Minnesotans will be given the necessary equipment to play all the state's gambling games at home. Despite barriers to prevent betting by minors, critics question the ethics of turning a children's toy into...
...Information Age just hasn't been able to meet overexpectations. Some technologies have worked as promised; others haven't. For every success story like compact discs or Nintendo, there are fizzles like picture phones and home computers. And in some glaring instances, the industry has been its own worst enemy. The sale of credit information by companies like TRW and Equifax hurt the market for automated credit services; sleazy, heavy-breathing 900-number telephone services created a mounting backlash against audiotext...
Morgan Creek has its lenses focused on more than just movies. The company has already produced MTV videos, toys, Nintendo games and hard- and soft-cover books. A Robin Hood sound-track album is the first offering from Morgan Creek Records, and a planned animated series will initiate a TV division...
LIVING Does the world need another Nintendo...