Re: headline: Nintendo battles alteration gadget

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From: Scott Schwartz
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 05:02

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Kent Williams writes:

| Not to mention the fact that Nintendo games turn subteens into
| complete idiots, not unlike cocaine-addicted rats ...
| 
| Come to think of it, I've seen it have that effect on adults ...

In yesterday's Washington Post there is an article on parents who play
nintendo with their kids (nice family type stuff.)  One of the parents
is quoted as saying that when his kids "see the old man bust 300,000
it boggles their little minds".

Looks like you were right. :-)

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From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: headline: Nintendo battles alteration gadget
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