Since the NES was released in Australia in 1987, Konami's games were distributed by Mattel Australia, just like the NES was.

The United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Australia and New Zealand received the system in 1987, where it was distributed by Mattel.

Stillinger started OddzOn Products Inc. with his brother-in-law, Mark Button, who had previously been a marketing manager for Mattel, in 1987 in order to market it.

The Buzz Saw Hordak action figure first released by Mattel in 1987 has become a very rare and sought-after collector's item.

It was formed in 1987 by agreement with J W Spear & Sons, the game's trademark owner, who were subsequently bought out by Mattel in 1993.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) is an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1978, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987.

* Lenses for the Canon EF mount, introduced with the company's EOS family of film SLRs in 1987 and used to this day on Canon full-frame and APS-H EOS DSLRs, can function fully on the company's APS-C DSLRs that use the EF-S mount ( although their angle of view will be different on the smaller APS-C sensor ).

That same year, 1987, the company introduced its Mega Man series.

* Digital Audio Tape cartridge, a recording and playback medium introduced by Sony in 1987

In 1987, new rules were introduced that banned, under penalty of excommunication, sexual contact with non-members.

The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ; or ) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

CompuServe introduced the GIF format in 1987 to provide a color image format for their file downloading areas, replacing their earlier run-length encoding ( RLE ) format, which was black and white only.

The same limitations affected Digital Research's FlexOS 286 version 1. 0, a derivation of Concurrent DOS 286, developed in 1986, introduced in January 1987, and later adopted by IBM for their IBM 4690 OS.

An all grey kit was introduced in 1987, which was used until the 1991 – 92 centenary season, when it was replaced by a combination of green shirts and white shorts.

The 5-door VAZ-21093 hatchback followed in 1987, and the 4-door 1. 5 L sedan, VAZ-21099, was introduced in 1990.

The Canadian one dollar coin ( commonly called Loonie ) is a gold-coloured one-dollar coin introduced in 1987.

Two very well known smooth jazz stations are WNUA in Chicago and 94. 7 The Wave in Los Angeles, both of which were introduced in 1987, and still continue to enjoy tremendous success in the format today.

In 1987 the Favorit model was introduced, and was one of a triumvirate of compact Western-influenced front wheel drive hatchbacks from the three main Eastern Bloc manufacturers around that time, the others being VAZ's Lada Samara and Zastava's Yugo Sana.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1987

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1987

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1987

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1987

It introduced CIA deskman ( analyst ) Jack Ryan as a field agent ; he reprised the role in the sequel The Cardinal of the Kremlin ( 1987 ).

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1987

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1987

In desperation, Kaunda broke with the IMF in May 1987 and introduced a New Economic Recovery Programme in 1988.

In the Spring of 1987, National Semi introduced the NS32532.

The figures disclosed by the government reveal an unusually low proportion of males to females: in 1980 and 1987, the male-to-female ratios were 86. 2 to 100, and 84. 2 to 100, respectively.

According to official figures, in 1987 Albania's roadways carried about 66 percent of the country's total freight tonnage.

* Gordon Gekko, Wall Street ( 1987 ) and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ( 2010 )– The notorious " corporate raider " and greenmailer, Gordon Gekko ( played by Michael Douglas ), represents a synthesis of the worst features of various famous private equity figures.

In her book Noël Coward ( 1987 ), Frances Gray says that Brief Encounter is, after the major comedies, the one work of Coward's that almost everybody knows and has probably seen ; it has featured frequently on television and its viewing figures are invariably high.

This added complexity did little to halt declining viewer figures, and after ITV regions started to drop the programme altogether ( the final season was not screened at all by LWT ) it was taken off the air in 1987.

The Tube was dropped in 1987 as a result of falling audience figures and an incident involving Jools Holland, who cursed during a live trailer.

" As examples Millington mentions " Rusalka ( 1983 ), with its Edwardian nursery setting and Freudian undertones, and Hänsel und Gretel ( 1987 ), its dream pantomime peopled by fantasy figures from the children's imagination ... Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( 1987 ) and Wozzeck ( 1990 ) exemplified an approach to production in which grotesque caricature jostles with forceful emotional engagement ".

From 1987 to 1989, he starred as a bartender / straightman in Sid and Marty Krofft's D. C. Follies, and was host to the Krofft puppets portraying political figures of the time.

During the 1980s, the term " cult archaeology " was used by figures like John R. Cole ( 1980 ) and William H. Stiebing Jr ( 1987 ).

Lupasco was one of the founding members of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research ( Centre International de Recherches et Etudes Transdisciplinaires ( CIRET )), founded in Paris in 1987 by Basarab Nicolescu, Edgar Morin, René Berger, Michel Random and other key figures of the French intelligentsia.

Hardback 203 pp., 2 col. plates, 424 figures, in English, 1987.

By the time of Turtles Forever, the 2003 Donatello is in total disbelief over the scientific attitude of his 1987 counterpart, in which the alternate Donatello replied, " Science isn't all just facts and figures ", although the two still manage to work together to track their enemies.

Grossman's television debut came in 1987, as a presenter for Through the Keyhole, a programme examining the homes of public figures.

He presented TV programmes and networked with post-punk figures including Paul Weller and Echo & the Bunnymen, the latter being the subject of his first book, published in 1987.

For 1987, Chrysler Corporation introduced two new compact cars, the Dodge Shadow and the Plymouth Sundance ( which turned in similar sales figures ), intended to replace the Dodge Charger-Dodge Omni and Plymouth Turismo-Plymouth Horizon, respectively.

In 1987 a brick-entrance was demolished to reveal two new figures: a four-headed, four-armed Brahma and a one headed, four armed Śakra devendra.

Her agency also represented many of the biggest names in the fashion industry including Katharine Hamnett, Jasper Conran, and Jean-Paul Gaultier ; figures from the world of entertainment such as Annie Lennox, Lenny Henry and Ruby Wax, and even worked briefly with the Labour Party in 1986, helping to promote Neil Kinnock ahead of the 1987 general election.

Branwell and his sisters are the central figures in the play The Gales of March written by Lee Bollinger in 1987.

In his " dateline " pieces, begun in 1987, González-Torres assembled lists of various dates in random order interspersed with the names of social and political figures and references to cultural artifacts or world events, many of which related to political and cultural history.

1987 saw the arrival of what is perhaps the most successful, in terms of sales and worldwide viewing figures, science fiction series of all time, Gene Roddenberry ’ s re-launching of his Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The given figures indicate from 1843 the " population present in the town " ( Ortsanwesende Bevölkerung ), from 1925 the " dwelling population " ( Wohnbevölkerung ), and since 1987 the " Population in the place of main residence " ( Bevölkerung am Ort der Hauptwohnung ).

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light was originally a range of action figures from Hasbro, released in 1987.

* His best Test bowling figures of 9 for 56 came against England, Lahore, 1987 / 88