Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...height of a movie season marked by record-setting box-office successes, TIME's Cinema section this week takes note of one of the most innovative and significant of all the new entries: TRON. A fantasy-thriller about what it might be like to be trapped inside a video game, TRON not only is the first feature film to achieve its special effects largely through the use of computer-assisted imagery and animation, it also gives to the abstract world of computer technology a witty and dramatic visual form...
...department stores and picked up in automobile showrooms in the spring as falling inflation stretched the buying power of the dollar. Retail business was up a strong 1.5% in May, after increasing .7% in April. Shoppers are spending, in particular on clothing and entertainment-oriented electronics products like video recorders and video games. Says Avery A. Haak, corporate economist for Dayton Hudson Corp. of Minneapolis, the seventh largest U.S. retailer: "I see some evidence that the consumer is spending more freely." Adds Richard D. McRae Jr., executive vice president of the twelve-store McRae's department-store chain based...
...year ago, Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass., announced its network, called Wangnet. It has three separate channels: one for Wang's computers, another to join its machines with those of other manufacturers and a third for video transmissions. That may be more extensive than many companies need. Wang says it is already drawing up plans for more than 80 Wangnet installations...
...Computer Conference in Houston, at least a dozen U.S. and foreign manufacturers were hawking portable computers that fit on the decks of pleasure boats, under airline seats, into attaché cases-even in the palm of the hand. Four of the new machines were Osborne imitations featuring built-in video, detachable typewriterlike keyboards and luggage-type carrying handles. While several models improved on the Osborne's eye-straining 5-in. screen, only one-manufactured by Non-Linear Systems Inc. in Solana Beach, Calif., and sold by Kay Computers-matched its price, $1,795. Osborne still retains the distinction...
First books became movies; then movies became books; now there are movies that have become video games. Parker Brothers is marketing a The Empire Strikes Back cartridge; a Raiders of the Lost Ark game will be out by December; and both Mattel and Bally are launching games inspired by Tron, a Disney Studios movie due out this summer. Bally is blitzing the arcades; Mattel is shipping more than 1 million Tron cartridges to dealers; and Disney Spokeswoman Hilary Clark says, "It's only the beginning." Indeed. Atari is developing a game called Krull, based on a movie that...