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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year many parents and grandparents may find the answer surprisingly familiar, as cautious toy companies promote some new variations on the old classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents PageVol. 132 No. 24 DECEMBER 12, 1988 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Nintendo Tops The Wish Lists | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Nintendo Tops The Wish Lists | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...group, which held its second meeting last night, plans dis-Christmas carols, posters of Jesus carrying a shopping bag and mock-battles staged at toy stores busy with holiday shoppers to mark the Christmas season...

Author: By Jennifer Atkinson, | Title: Group Plans to 'Steal' Christmas | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

...Grinch Army Faction can't persuade holiday shoppers to forego present buying, it aims at least to convince parents that they should avoid buying war toys for their children, Fucella said. Shoppers may think twice before buying toy guns and other weaponsfor children after watching the fake battles intoy stores that the group plans to stage, headded...

Author: By Jennifer Atkinson, | Title: Group Plans to 'Steal' Christmas | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

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