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AUTHOR: DAVID SHEFF...
...name Nintendo means "leave luck to heaven," but Sheff shows that the company's leaders have made their own luck, through hard work and foresight, while fighting off rival gamemakers such as Sega. When MCA Universal charged that the game Donkey Kong infringed on the copyright to the movie King Kong, Nintendo stubbornly refused to settle, and eventually MCA had to pay Nintendo a $1.8 million penalty. Nintendo chief Hiroshi Yamauchi also wisely built expansion capabilities in his entertainment systems, allowing an innocuous video-game system to perhaps become the home-communications network of the future. Writes Sheff: "Nintendo...
...Sheff mixes interesting personal details with colorful snippets of writing. The Japanese wife of the head of Nintendo of America learns English by watching TV and "developed an accent decidedly reminiscent of Peter Falk's Columbo." Her husband has an odd habit of falling asleep in strange places -- including on a fairway during a major golf tournament as Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino teed off. And the book claims Dustin Hoffman wanted to play the computer character Mario in the movie adaptation because his kids loved the game (the movie is currently in theaters with Bob Hoskins in the lead...
...time of the attack, the Sheffield, a modern, computerized ship commissioned in 1975, and known in the British fleet as "the shiny Sheff," was on radar patrol about 70 miles from the Falklands. Its main duty was to protect the vulnerable aircraft carrier Hermes from air attack. Instead, the destroyer fell victim. At least two, and possibly three, French-built fighters, including at least one Super-Etendard fighter-bomber, were about 550 miles from a mainland airbase, presumably at Rio Gallegos, and nearing the limit of their combat range when the radar on a Super-Etendard locked...
...yard freestyle--Won by Martin, Williams; 2, Donovan, Y; 3, Sheff, Y; 4, Brisco, Brown; 5, Glover, Dartmouth. Time 50.3 (Pool and meet record...