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the robot can assume up to 60 different operating positions, interact with special game accessories and perform a variet of spontaneous movements which affect game playaccording to the game’s instruction Nintendo claims that over 23 games including several popular arcade games have already been developed for the system.wonjdisappointI^ast week 1 talked about some of the new products that I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held recently in Chicago. In this week’s column, I promised to tell you ail about other exciting things including a new game system that I discovered at the CES.The game system is the Nintendo Entertainment System from Nintendo, apopular manufacturer of arcade games The system includes the main console, a wirelessjpr jr ■robot i the world's only interactive video robot), one robot game and two controllers, all selling for under $130 as a sugge retail price. An optional add-on is a light gun to be used with Nintendo’s target shooting packThe Nintendo Entertainment Systemoffers 52-color dot resolution, an enhancement over the 16 colors of previous systems. The video robot adds a revolutionary new dimension to homeWentertainment.Prompted by invisible sensory devices which read messages from the TV screen. memorvI can’t really comment or how entertaining the games for the system are. but that's because ali the adults crowded u: the boothThe Vid KidBy H \WSON STOVALLwould hardly give me a chance to play!An exciting product at Broderbund’s booth was Fantavision, a computer animation “film studio” that allows the user to design his own animation sequences and have them ‘‘up and running in seconds.”Fantavision reminds me of the program Art Master that was available with a light pen for the discontinued Vectrex game system. The major difference is that Fantavision works so efficiently that it can store an hour-long animated movie inseveral hundred frames.whereas the old Art Master program would allow' only up to nine frames — a few seconds worth.Spinnaker Software, parent company of Windham Classics and Telanum, took an innovative step forward in introducing a line of educational interactive videotape programs for children. Each program includes a workbook which allows a child to interact with the 30-minute videotape just as soon as starring puppets named Cricket, P.J. andProfessor Mindbender.Three of the programs, Reading: Readers of the lAst Alphabet; Math' Add Venture The Time Taxi; and Reading: The Search for the Stolen Sentence, will be available for both Beta and VHS in September. The fourth, unnamed, will focus on multiplication and division skills and will be available in OctoberTelarium introduced two new titles in its line of interactive graphic and text-based adventure games Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandrain Murder and Nine Princes in Amber. The unique aspect to these games is they involve human interactions. The characters in the games become more or less cooperative as a direct result of the player's interactions with them.Like Telarium, Wind ham Classics introduced two new titles Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Q? In the Wizard of Oz, the player takes on the role of Dorothy who corresponds with such old and new characters as tin Munchkins and TikTok while traveling down th* YellowBrick Road.? m Wonderland is played the samewav as one of mv all-time favorites. BelowW •} «T? Root The game is completely joystick-operated and menu-controlled, which makes the game go much faster for those w ho can't type that well or fast.I plan to review these and many more of the exciting programs that I saw at the CESey’re available. Next week,it's Epyx’s Summer Games II.
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Odessa American
Odessa, Texas, US
Sun, Jul 14, 1985
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