The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 114

with JACQUELINE McARTHUR CHECK THIS OUT -J Can you spot the difference between these two pictures? If you can pick up what's different about Travis the tittle pig and his two baboon friends, you may be one of the lucky winners of 10 Nickelodeon prize packs. Travis stars in Snout, one of three crazy Australian cartoons from Nickelodeon's Toons From Planet Orange series. Send your entries to The Sun-Herald, Super Scene Nickelodeon Competition, Box 4020, GPO Sydney, 2001. Entries close on July 28. as video il at THE video game revolution is almost complete.

Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog are now officially cooler than most of the world's pop stars Video games are the future and music just has to fit with the latest game The Sound Of Gran Turismo, which features music from Garbage, Ash and Manic Street Preachers. The recent Wipeout 2097 also had some winning tunes from Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Underworld. Road Rash is played with Soundgarden and Swervedriver. Experts say more than S4 million Australian households have a PC and buy an average of six to eight games a year. Most titles sell 40,000 copies in Australia in the first month, with popular ones like V-Rally and Crash Bandicoot selling well over 100,000 copies each.

But the pop stars are biting back -the latest Aqua CD came with a bonus video CD-ROM with a screen saver and others are working on their image in the games world. The Spice Girls, less one redhead, are set to challenge another busty British invention Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, with their own remixing and choreographing CD-ROM. The fight is not over yet. 4 il4 around them, say entertainment experts. The games market has exploded into a S17 billion a year industry that could easily triple that size in three years.

Tomb Raider has sold more than six million copies world-wide Tomb Raider 3, released in November, is expected to sell several million copies at $70 a pop. With annual salaries for games programmers at over $100,000 it pays almost as well as playing football on grass rather than television. But it's not just the music industry under siege the almighty film industry, worth $100 billion annually, is threatened too. Some experts say Tomb Raider r-! will earn more money for its makers than the film Titanic. Many in the music industry have given up the fight already and the backing music to videos has improved out of sight.

Sony PlayStation and EMI did a clever deal gallery A CLEVER GOALKEEPER: Prize of $6 to Yuan (13), Camperdown. MY FAVOURITE SOCCER PLAYER: NT (Pv WORLD CUP: Prize of $6 Prize of $6 to Rick (12), Kambah. I nndTfl to Carl (11), Thornleigh. BRAZIL'S NUMBER 8: Prize of $6 to Mitchell (9), Hunters Hill. C- What kind of tie does a wear? A plasty.

Narelle (12), St Marysf MS SOCCER FAN: Prize of $6 to Jack (14), I Ob' puzzles. Send entries to Super Scene, Box 4020 GPO Sydney, 2001 with your full name, age and address by July 28. Arrange the letters to spell the name of a fish. There are eight prizes of $6 for puzzle entries. Complete and colour the 2 THE SUN-HERALD SUPERSCENE.