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"Little did we know the phenomenon is so widespread that nintendo recently released a fruit-smuggling video game called Bangai-O. Its premise is that the SF Kosmo gang has hijacked a shipment of intergalactic fruit, which they are selling at inflated prices. The player's aim is to destroy this fearsome network of fruit pirates. Some countries have ever fiercer antismuggling laws. New Zealand stringently monitors fruit imports, as rockers Franz Ferdinand and actress Hilary Swank learned when, on separate occasions, they were fined for not declaring their apples and oranges." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"He was an outdoorsy kid, not a couch potato or a nintendo Nerd. Almost immediately, they got a letter from the school counselor. It said, "We had hoped you would have started Matthew on a trial of medication by now." She wanted another meeting. This time she was much harsher. She said that Matthew needed to go on Ritalin now. She assured them that it was a very mild medication that would stimulate his brain stem and help him focus. Larry didn't know much about the brain stem, but he wasn't sold. After all, the doctor hadn't prescribed Ritalin." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Many children are falling victim to "video-gamer's thumb," aka "Nintendo thumb"—a type of RSI caused by playing with PlayStations or other video games. can be a clue to vitamin Bn deficiency or even the more serious pernicious anemia, a severe form of anemia (low red blood cell count) caused by the body's inability to absorb vitamin B|2. Interestingly, too much vitamin B6 can cause paresthesia, as can abnormally high levels of calcium, potassium, sodium, and lead. Excessive tobacco and alcohol use can produce numbness and/or tingliness, too." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The $199 NES was based on an 8-bit Motorola 6502 microprocessor and shipped with a version of the hit arcade game Super Mario Bros. Quantities of the NES were shipped into the New York market in time for Christmas 1985, and national distribution followed early in 1986. nintendo sold more than 3 million NES units in its first two years of release; it is estimated that, over its entire product life, more than 65 million NES consoles were sold worldwide, along with 500 million cartridges." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Slogans such as Xbox's 'Life is short, play more' and Nintendo's 'Life's a game' link the idea of'play' and 'games' with the products of technology. Most children today associate these words not with outdoor play or sport but with virtual, indoor experiences. Gaming enthusiasts argue that the best computer games can increase players' IQ, perseverance and concentration, but most games for the under-tens involve litde more than a few undemanding choices, coupled with mouse control and hand-eye coordination." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Shaina said she felt fine and wanted to stay home and play nintendo, but we insisted she be looked at. Shaina brought storybooks and read to us in the car from the time we left until we arrived in his parking lot, which was about 30-35 minutes. We walked hand-in-hand to the pediatrician's office. When we arrived I took off her coat and wrote her name on the clipboard. When I turned to go sit beside her she began to have a grand mal seizure. I screamed for someone to help me and picked her up in my arms and started to run through the door to the examining room for the doctor." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Quantities of the NES were shipped into the New York market in time for Christmas 1985, and national distribution followed early in 1986. nintendo sold more than 3 million NES units in its first two years of release; it is estimated that, over its entire product life, more than 65 million NES consoles were sold worldwide, along with 500 million cartridges. In 1989, Sega released its first game system in the United States, the Sega Master System (SMS)." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Also released in 1989 was the first programmable handheld game system, Nintendo's GameBoy. Priced at $100, GameBoy featured a black-and-white LCD screen, and came prepackaged with a Tetris cartridge. With more than 100 million units shipped in various configurations, GameBoy holds the honor of being the world's all-time best-selling video game system. eime focus Does Science Matter? By WILLIAM J. BROAD and JAMES GLANZ Through its rituals of discovery, science has extended life, conquered disease and offered new sexual and commercial freedoms." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "To compete with the Sega Genesis, nintendo launched its own 16-bit system in 1991. The Super NES, known as the Super Famicon in Japan, sold for $199 and included the Super Mario World cartridge. The initial U.S. production mn of 300,000 units sold out overnight; over the course of its product life, more than 46 million Super NES units were sold worldwide. Sixth Generation: 1995-98_ The sixth generation of home video games featured high-powered microprocessors and dedicated graphics processors that enabled extremely realistic graphics and game play." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"It looked like the 3D version of something you'd get from nintendo. Today when I walk down a street it's like I'm in a scene from a Matrix movie. I am not in the world; I am detached from it -observing rather than participating. It's always a shock when anyone speaks to me in this mode because I feel invisible to people. When I look at the apparently 'solid' buildings and cars, it's like I could put my hand through them. That may sound weird to anyone new to this, but how can they be anything but illusion when they are only electrical signals decoded by the brain?" - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.)

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