This nineminute December 30th, 1988 TV news report from MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS describes how Nintendo of America revived the oncedead video game market with its NES console. A rare look inside Nintendo of America in Redmond, WA including its assembly factory, R&D labs and game play counselor office. Howard Phillips and Masahiro Ishizuka are interviewed about their work for Nintendo. Child psychologist Laura Kastner is also interviewed concerning her theories on how video games may consume a child's time, and if parents should question the amount of gameplay time their child has.
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“The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” 19881230, NewsHour Productions, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cp....