![]() ![]() Much of Atari's loss came about because of steep competition in the still-thriving home-video Last year's stock-market darling, reported a second-quarter loss of more than $310 million last week. The Atari division of Warner Communications, According to industry analysts, arcade income has dropped some 25 percent from last year's $7.3 billion nationwide. However, the Kirby report also sees laser-disk technologyĪs one way of lifting the ''sagging fortunes'' of the arcades. Research company in New York, about 200,000 video-game machines are being shipped this year, less than half the 480,000 shipped in 1982. According to a June report by Christopher Kirby, a video-games specialist with Sanford C. 'Sagging Fortunes' The manufacturers are hurting, too. Of game machines from arcades whose owners have gone broke have increased dramatically. Arcades are currently saturated with games, and auctions If laser-disk games are successful, they will be a shot in the arm for the wilting video-arcade industry. The game - which costs 50 cents to play, double the usual price - isĪveraging more than $1,000 a week per machine around the country. In Boise, Idaho, patrons are taping $5īills instead of quarters to the machine, signifying their intention to play game after game before relinquishing the machine. ''There have literally been 15 people crowded around the machine.'' At Captain Video's in Los Angeles, a television monitor lets customers watch others play the game while they wait their turn. Money as '' Pole Position,'' the game in second place. ''I've never seen a game this crowded,'' said Lance Boyd, assistant manager of Castle Park Arcade in Sherman Oaks, where ''Dragon's Lair'' is earning twice as much Video game with stereophonic sound and real animation, reached arcades two weeks ago and has become an instant sensation. ''Dragon's Lair,'' a coin- operated laser-disk " HOLLYWOOD, July 25- The cozy relationship between Hollywood and video games has moved a step closer to marriage. Review New York Times 1983 HOLLYWOOD PLAYING HARDER AT THE VIDEO GAME By ALJEAN HARMETZ ![]()
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