Video games back
By JEANNA BAXTER
Staff Writer
The video game market, which
plummeted to an all-time low in
1985, has begun its resurgence in
1987.
Japan-based Nintendo, which
commands more than 75 percent of
the home video game market, esti
mated its Christmas sales as more
than a million consoles sold. A
sellout of the system forced Nintendo
to cut back its $20 million holiday
ad campaign.
Sega, another Japan-based com
pany, has also experienced this
revival. Sega markets the racing
game Outrun currently the number
- one selling video game in the nation.
Toys-R-Us at South Square Mall,
local distributor of Nintendo pro
ducts, sold between 150 and 200
systems during the two weeks prior
to Christmas, according store repre
sentative Bill Hume.
Hume said most of the Nintendo
consoles and software were virtually
impossible to keep in stock.
Most analysts attribute the video
game market downfall in 1984 and
1985 to an over-saturation of the
software market.
Alan Pomerantz, director of
advertising and public relations at
Nintendo, blamed the easy market
ability of video game software for
the glut.
"Since the market had experienced
such phenomenal growth, retailers
overstocked a variety of software,"
Pomerantz said. "Much of this
software was inferior. Inferior games
N.C. Democrats hope to wim 1988 governor's post
By MICHAEL A. KOLB
Staff Writer
The cold, harsh winds of winter
are still blowing in North Carolina,
but for many N.C. Democrats,
thoughts are turning toward spring
1988 and the May gubernatorial
primary.
Lt. Governor Bob Jordan, consi
dered the front runner among the
Democrats, has not formally
announced his candidacy, N.C.
Democratic Party Chairman Jim
Van Hecke Jr. said Monday.
"1 would be surprised if that
changes," Van Hecke said.
Jordan will announce his decision
this fall, said Brenda Summers,
Rape Awareness Week features a mock trial of date rape case
By KRISTEN GARDNER
Staff Writer
This week, three campus organ
izations are observing Rape Aware
ness Week with a series of speakers,
films, discussions and a mock trial.
The event is sponsored by the
Carolina Union Human Relations
Committee, the Campus Y Women's
Forum and the Rape Action Project.
Peter Hatcher, a member of the
Rape Action Project, quoted a recent
poll by UNC's School of Journalism
which showed that three out of every
ten UNC women were victims of
rape or attempted rape.
Hatcher said that one of the goals
of Rape Awareness Week was to
make people understand that rape
is not a dead issue. "We want to raise
consciousness so more people will
want to get involved in the effort."
"Rape is not all men's fault,"
Hatcher said. "It's not all women's
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virtually ended software sales, which
in turn stopped hardware sales."
Ron Judy, vice president of mar
keting at Nintendo, said both Nin
tendo and Sega manufacture systems
in which only licensed software can
be used. This licensing will ensure
high quality games and prevent a re
occurance of the market glut.
Pomerantz said the beginning of
the home computer craze also played
a major role in the decline of the
home video game system.
"The market will take longer to
saturate this time," said Hume. "The
systems will sell well for a year or
two, and then the software will
continue to do well for another two
or three years at least," he said.
New state-of-the-art technology is
another major catalyst in the revi
talization of the video game market.
Today's video games offer higher
color capabilities, expanded
memory, an increase in the variety
of play and better controls. Nintendo
also added a robot and a light
sensitive "Zapper" gun.
"Video games never fell out of
popularity," said James Frye of
Brady Distributing in Charlotte.
"The home games simply needed
advanced technology to revive an
interest in them."
"Although the coin-operated
games met a decline, they remained
stable," said Pomerantz.
"The Barrel of Fun experienced
about a 25 percent drop in business
after the boom in 1982 and 1983,
but has noticed a definite pickup in
the last year," said Glen Edmisten,
Jordan's director of communica
tions. Jordan will base his decision
on the field of candidates and
whether he feels he has the support
of the party leadership. Summers
said.
Hecke said he doesn't expect a
large field of contenders.
But William Carl, a businessman
from Raleigh, is rumored to be
interested in running for the Demo
cratic nomination, said Tom Law
ton, spokesman for Sen. Terry
Sanford, D-N.C,
State Democratic leaders have
shied away from endorsing a can
didate so early in the race. Sanford
criticized Gov. Jim Martin, the
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Lauren Lindsey, chairman of the
Union Human Relations Commit
tee, said that she hoped that the
week's events would cause people to
"take responsibility for their own
lives," and help solve the problem
of rape on an individual level.
"If people would solve problems
within themselves and the people
they know, we wouldn't have to have
organizations like Rape Action
Project," she said.
Polly Guthrie of the Campus Y's
Women's Forum said, "Some people
may feel there's overkill on some
issues. We've tried to raise issues that
don't always come up. WeVe tried
to bring rape to the individual
because it is such a reality."
Tuesday night's mock trial to
decide a case of date rape will be
decided by three different juries: one
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arcade.
Edmisten attributed the market
upswing to better graphics and an
increase in the number of four-player
games available. These four-player
games, such as Gauntlet, offer more
competition to the players. This
competition isn't available from the
home games.
"Our business didn't drop off,"
said Carey McCloskey, manager of
Soaps on Franklin Street. "Our
regular customers continued to play
the games."
Redemption games, in which
players win tickets redeemable for
prizes, have also helped the coin
operated industry, Edmisten said.
Both Sega and Nintendo are now
manufacturing a number of kit
games that allow arcade owners to
transform games that aren't making
money into new games. Arcade
operators save a lot of money
because they do not have to buy new
cabinets.
Kristin Avena, marketing service
representative for Sega, said that
profits are good in the video game
industry.
"Arcade operators are drawing in
over $1,000 a week from Outrun"
she said.
Both McCloskey and Edmisten
agreed that the increase in the home
video game market has not hurt the
coin-operated market.
"Nintendo thinks that the two
busineses complement each other,"
Pomerantz said. Nintendo is the only
manufacturer of both home and
Republican candidate, for being too
partisan, but has stopped short of
endorsing any Democrat.
"Usually, you want to let the
people decide, but that's not to say
he wouldn't endorse a candidate
during the primaries," Lawton said.
"None of the elected officials
endorsed Sen. Sanford until after the
primaries."
Rep. David Price, D-N.C, would
not endorse a candidate during the
primaries, press secretary Jim Jor
dan said.
Both Sanford and Price said a
Democratic governor would be a big
plus for N.C. Democrats.
"A Democratic General Assembly
made up of adults, one of male
students and one of female students.
Hatcher said.
Laura X, director of the National
Clearinghouse for Marital and Date
Rape, is the week's keynote speaker.
X legally changed her name to signify
the anonymity of women in history,
said Suzanne Bolch, Union Public
Relations chair.
A schedule of the week's events
is as follows:
Tuesday, Feb. 10
12:30 p.m. Tin Drum Theater
Group dramatization of rape issues
in the Pit.
5 p.m. Self-Defense and Self
Protection Workshop.
7 p.m. Date Rape presentation in
Hinton James.
8 p.m. Mock Trial of a date rape
case in 209 Manning.
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Avena said that Sega is still
concerned with market saturation.
can work better with a Democratic
governor," Lawton said. "Martin's
been a very partisan governor. That
can lead to hard feelings. When the
governor's campaigned against you,
it's hard to be cooperative."
Van Hecke said Democratic gov
ernors have campaigned against
Republican candidates to the
General Assembly in the past. He
said, however, the Democrats did
not have to ask the Republicans to
work with them in the General
Assembly after the governor bad
"knocked them" because the Demo
crats had a majority.
"Martin is the most partisan
governor in years," Van Hecke said.
4 p.m. Film "Rate it X" with
discussion led by Dr. Linnea Smith
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New games are being held back until
the market seems clear enough to
handle them, she said.
N.C. Democrats plan to keep a
"unified front like the one we had
during the last election," Van Hecke
said.
"Terry Sanford will be an
immense help," he said. "This will
be a hard race."
North Carolina would benefit
from a Democratic governor because
he would be more in tune with the
people of the state, Van Hecke said.
"All the progress of this state has
been made under Democratic gov
ernors, whether it's a question of the
university system, the Research
Triangle Park or road systems,"
Lawton said.
8 p.m. Film "Rate it X" in the
Union Film Auditorium.
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6 p.m. Date Rape presentation in
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BSM hacks
Sitton in
SEP runoff
By KIMBERLY EDENS
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement
(BSM) has endorsed Jaye Sitton in
the runoff election for student body
president, BSM president Camille
Roddy said Monday.
"The two candidates provide a
very clear choice as to who is most
qualified," Roddy said.
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The BSM refused to endorse any
of the candidates in the original
election in a statement released last
Sunday. The statement said that if
a runoff election was necessary, the
BSM would endorse one of the
candidates.
Roddy gave Sitton's experience on
student congress as a reason for the
endorsement. "Jaye Sitton has
worked with student government for
quite some time," she said, "and she
has made it clear that she is quite
willing to work with the BSM in
providing for the needs and concerns
of minority students and all students
on UNCs campus. Her platform
goals and ideals certainly are more
feasible and attainable objectives." '
Brian Bailey, the other candidate
in the runoff, showed a lack of
concern for representing minority
groups, Roddy said. "Bailey made
it clear that divestment, minority
recruitment and retention, and
anything concerning women should
not be addressed by student govern
ment," she said.
"Since student government is
supposed to take into consideration
a cross-section of all students and
issues on campus," she said, "and
divestment is an issue that students
have voted for overwhelmingly on
two referenda, that in itself is
evidence that these are concerns of
students on campus, and Bailey is
not taking these concerns into
consideration."
The BSM also asks all students
to vote, Roddy said. "The BSM
urges all students to get out and
exercise their right to choose the
most qualified individual to serve as
our student body president," Roddy
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