August 6 -- As "Ollie-mania" Continues To Sweep The Country, One Of The Most
Popular Video-arcade Games In The Country Is A New One Called -- This Is
True -- "Contra.
August 6 -- As "Ollie-mania" continues to sweep the country, one of the most
popular video-arcade games in the country is a new one called -- this is
true -- "Contra." The way it works is, there are are two soldiers on
the screen, and when you put in a quarter, it never gets to them.
-- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987"
August 25 -- In what is hailed as a landmark ruling he Supreme Court decides,
by a 7-2 vote, that you cannot count three oranges as one item in the
Express Checkout Lane "unless they are all in the same package....