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...Mario Bros. series of home-video games -- and a cash-register bonanza for the Japanese company that sells them. The new game (approximate cost: $50) will require different hardware: a one-megabit Super Family Computer (approximate cost: $165) to be unveiled in Japan this November. The machine will have stereo sound and the ability to display 32,768 color gradations, up from 52 in the old model. Eager customers should know that the upgraded hardware will not play the old Nintendo cassettes, some 350 million of which have been sold worldwide. A series of new-format cassettes...
Parents would not be so upset if the sex and violence were confined to the screen and stereo. But our children are at risk in the real world. While the total population of teenagers is dwindling, the number of murders and rapes committed by juveniles is on the rise. Teenage pregnancy has reached epidemic proportions. To a degree, entertainment just reflects what is already going on in society. But isn't it possible that pop culture reinforces and perhaps amplifies bad behavior? There are many reasons for teenage crime, including poverty, family problems and psychological ills...
Maritoni finishes the song, returns to her seat and scrapes off the remaining mustard. Drapeau turns the stereo back...
Drapeau says some workers feel demeaned by working in a "hot dog shop." One employee, he says, used to play opera on the stereo...
None of this comes cheap. A bare-bones home theater costs $400 for the A/V box, $700 for a stereo TV, $800 or more for a laser videodisc player and upwards of $1,500 for a five-speaker surround-sound system. And it is ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry...