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Hawkins will sell his games on compact discs -- the same silver platters that have taken over the music business and been adapted as storage devices for machines built by Sega, Philips, Commodore and all the major computer manufacturers. But unlike most of his competitors, Hawkins sees CDs as a temporary solution. Ultimately, he says, interactive motion pictures will be delivered to home game machines not on a disc but through the fiber-optic networks being built by cable and telephone companies. This summer he announced plans to sell a new version of the Multiplayer that plugs directly into a coaxial...
Unfortunately for Hawkins and his partners, he is not the only one with his eye on the information-highway prize. Atari has announced a $200 game system called Jaguar that could steal some of 3DO's sparkle this fall. Both Sega and Nintendo are rumored to have 3DO-class machines in development. And last month Nintendo announced plans to leapfrog ahead with a game machine built around a % 64-bit chip, which has twice the power...
...Sega, meanwhile, has made a couple of deals that could prove prescient. In one, Time Warner and Tele-Communications Inc. have agreed to create a special Sega channel on their cable-TV systems that would give subscribers access to 50 games each month. In another important pact, Sega has allied itself with AT&T to create a special cartridge called the Edge 16 that would enable Sega Genesis owners to compete with similarly equipped players anywhere in the world over ordinary telephone lines...
...7Interactive Multiplayer; Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega of America, Inc.; Voyeur/Philips CD-i -- Philips P.O.V.; Super Mario/Nintendo of America Inc.; Jurassic Park Interactive from MCA ( (c) Universal City Studios, Inc., & Amblin Entertainment, Inc.) for 3DO Interactive Multiplayer; Acclaim's Mortal Kombat for the Super NES; "Disney's Aladdin" for Sega Genesis, Disney characters (c) The Walt Disney Company
...arcade game last year and the focus of a growing debate about whether violence in video games has finally gone too far. The issue came home for millions of parents and kids last week when Acclaim brought out four new versions of Mortal Kombat designed to play on the Sega and Nintendo systems found in some 50 million U.S. households...