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- July 09, 1990: Boop, Beep, Blurp, Jingle, Jingle
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Boop, Beep, Blurp, Jingle, Jingle
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> Hold on to your wallets, Nintendo fans. Super Mario Bros.
- 4 is on the way. But it could be a mixed blessing for all those
- addicted to the 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, at $50 or so
- each, will be available from Nintendo.
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- </article>
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