GameBoy lands in Spain

The first Nintendo portable gaming console with interchangeable cartridges, the Game Boy was released today in Europe. It first hit it Japan, on April 21, 1989 and later the US on July 31. We will be asking for one of those machines on the upcoming years, but our parets will always refuse to buy us one. Luckily we got one borrowed by a neighbor who was already tired of it, and have one at home for a couple of months somewhere between 1990 and 1996.

AKIRA comes to its end

Otomo Katsuhiro's master work AKIRA comes to its end in the Young Magazine number that has been released today. After 120 chapters Kaneda and his friends will leave forever.

Majo no Takkyūbin (魔女の宅急便)

Hayao Miyazaki has released his latest film with Studio Ghibli. Know abroad as Kiki's Delivery Service, the actual Japanese title is Majo no Takkyūbin (魔女の宅急便).

Zorionak Ioannes 5 urte

My 1989 year class, we are 4-5 years old. When someone's birthday is coming each of us makes a drawing, and the teacher collects them in a booklet as a birthday present. Here, the awesome artworks my classmates gift me before the summer vacations.

Bill Moyers Rewind: Isaac Asimov (1988)

via www.pbs.org

In 1988, Bill Moyers interviewed author Isaac Asimov for WORLD OF IDEAS. Incredibly prolific in various genres beyond the science fiction for which he was best known, Asimov wrote well over 400 books on topics ranging from sci-fi to the Bible before his death in 1992. In one thread of his wide-ranging interview, Asimov shared his thoughts on overpopulation:

"Right now most of the world is living under appalling conditions. We can't possibly improve the conditions of everyone. We can't raise the entire world to the average standard of living in the United States because we don't have the resources and the ability to distribute well enough for that. So right now as it is, we have condemned most of the world to a miserable, starvation level of existence. And it will just get worse as the population continues to go up... Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people there are, the less one individual matters."