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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thursdoy, February J6, 1981 B3 Gamesmakers Exhibit New Electronic Wares BEST BUYS ricocheting ball Othello, an electronic version of the classic board game from Gabriel Industries, combines simple rules with exceedingly complex strategy. Video pinball, my personal favorite due to a misspent youth, is a video simulation of an actual pinball game. There are spinners, flippers, and special bumpers that light up for extra scores. You can nudge the ball with the firing button, and you can even tilt the machine. If Atari has scored a couple of coups with Asteroids and Othello, Mattel has done the same with Dungeons and Dragons, an electronic edition of a board game that has practically become an industry.

A company spokesman explained that Dungeons and Dragons "uses sound effects to determine game play. It takes one or two players on a perilous, suspense-filled quest through a hidden maze to a treasure guarded by a jealous, computer-controlled dragon. It also generates labyrinths that players must negotiate to discover the location of the treasure and the dragon, lurking within three squares of the prize." butt and shank end hams, haddock and pollock. Abundant supplies of New England apples continue to highlight produce displays. Other good produce buys are California navel oranges, Thompson seedless grapes, Florida strawberries, celery and Texas green cabbage.

Cottage cheese, private brand butter, medium size eggs and ice cream are featured in the dairy department This week's promotional activity at the meat case offers substantial savings and variety, according to the state Department of Agriculture. Poultry specials include fresh frying chickens, oven roasters and whole legs. Beef specials are best with London Broil steaks, boneless chuck and bottom round roasts. Other specials include smoked pork shoulder picnics, shoulder rolls, bacon, By MARK ANDREWS New York Daily News NEW YORK Electronics was the name of the 7 game at the 1981 Toy Fair, a giant trade show held earlier this month in toy manufacturers' showrooms 1 in and around New York. Beeps, bangs and buzzes Resounded all week long at press conferences and presentations throughout the city, showing clearly 4hat Santa is gradually shifting his production ef-Horts from the North Pole to electronics companies in America, Hong Kong and Japan.

Coleco started the week off with a flourish by introducing a host of new electronic games at a press conference in the Manhattan Laboratory Museum in the theater district Sandy the Dog and other cast members of the Broadway musical "Annie" were on hand to help unveil the new line. As the kids rang in the product premiere with a chorus of "tomorrow," the press conference was suddenly attacked by a menacing flock of electronic mosquitoes. The intruders, a flock of red bug-shaped lights, were flitting around on the circular board of a new game called Swat Swat The toy comes with four plastic fly swatters, and the object is to bash into oblivion any bug that invades your territory. As soon as the LEDs went on, four courageous youngsters took their places around a table and immediately started demolishing mosquitoes. I tried it, too, jmd could hardly be torn away.

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They included Head to Head Boxing, a new addition to an already popular game Series; Bowlatronic, which gives players what Co-ieco calls unprecedented control over the ball; and ihe Total Control 4 sports cartridge system, which allows up to four people to compete in four different Sports. Total Control 4 comes with a football cartridge 'and a game book, and slip-in cartridges for basketball, soccer and hockey are also available. The Igame, which carries a suggested retail price of $50, fs so sophisticated that armchair jocks can use the yrovided playbook to program their games. Many ether new electronic toys and games were intro-Buced, including an electronic microwave oven and exciting handheld Alien Attack game with a multicolor vacuum flourescent display. At another press conference, Atari introduced l0ur new videogame cartridges: Asteroids, Warlord, jVthello and Video Pinball.

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