Word: pac-man
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...Pac-Man Finally Meets His Match Feverish competition takes its toll on video-game stocks...
...quite ready to declare that the stock market was flashing a bleak "Game Over" for the popular amusements. But it seemed clear that video-game makers would no longer be able to rack up record profits with the ease of a twelve-year-old joystick junkie who stars at Pac-Man...
...sold the cartridges and the consoles better than Warner's ten-year-old Atari. By acquiring the rights to popular arcade games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man, and designing them to fit players of its own manufacture, Atari saw its sales leap from $30 million in 1976 to $1.1 billion last year. As late as last summer it still held about 80% of the world market, and in doing so had got a lock on an enormously profitable business in which cartridges that cost only about $6 to manufacture can usually be sold for a retail price...
...Pac-Man. Gerald Dodge Denison, Iowa
...result means big bucks for the people who gave video-gobbler Pac-Man his own Saturday morning cartoon. Based on this show's success as the highest-rated children's show on television, the agents behind Pac-Man's TV career now bring us "Christmas Comes to Pac Land Presumably, Ms. Pac-Man will guest star in the Dec. 16 special, with Marty Engels as the voice of the electronic big-mouth...