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...pleased. "Last year I gave my granddaughter a talking doll called Heather that cost $125," says Margaret Simpson, 71. "She was no good whatsoever. My daughter had to take her to the doll hospital for an $85 limbs transplant." The only high- tech toy to flourish is Japan's Nintendo video system, whose U.S. sales could top $1.7 billion this year, making it the No. 1 seller...
...them all is Barbie, eternally 17 but now pushing 30. When she was first introduced in 1959, store owners were dubious. Many feared she was too adult, too shapely and too different to appeal to little girls and their traditional moms. This year she is second only to Nintendo: worldwide sales will top $450 million, up more than 25% from last year. Mattel sells more than 20 million Barbie fashions a year, making it one of the world's largest retailers of women's clothing...
Lazer Tag, you've been zapped! Teddy Ruxpin, pipe down! The best-selling toy of the 1988 Christmas season is a video game: the Nintendo Entertainment System. The toy consists of a computer control box and a pair of joysticks (about $80), a gun-light Zapper ($25) and software cartridges ($25 to $40) that play such games as Super Mario Bros. 2 and Double Dragon...
...otherwise lackluster season for the toy industry, the Japanese makers of Nintendo are posting glittering sales figures. Their U.S. division is expected to ring up revenues of $1.7 billion this year, compared with $750 million in 1987. Toy sellers ordered 8.4 million Nintendo sets for this season, but the company could deliver only 7 million...
...want to focus on 'Jesus the cool person,'" said Scott St. John, who works at MIT. "Would Jesus have bought his children Nintendo? Did he go shopping for weeks? No way. Jesus wasn't that kind of guy," he said...