Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening salvo in the battle for the Falkland Islands? No. The commander was merely playing Obliterate, a video computer game designed by Mercury 332, an electronic publishing company based in Manchester, England, that offers the game as part of the information it supplies through Prestel, a videotext information and entertainment service in eight countries, including...
...makes Atari's archcompetitor, Intellivision, says it has sold more than a million units at $249 and expects to be marketing 40 cartridges by December. One design will be based on an upcoming Disney movie called Tron, about a whiz who finds himself, Alice-like, trapped inside a video game. Hollywood fights back...
Atari, which marketed a home version of Pac-Man only last month, just helped Warner Com, its parent company, post a record 57% increase in first-quarter profits. In 1982, according to San Francisco Securities Analyst Ted James, Atari, the world's largest supplier of home-video consoles and cartridges, should sell around $400 million worth of coin-operated video games and some $1.3 billion worth of the home-video consoles and cartridges. This represents a revenue for Warner almost six times that of their record business, five times that of the film division and about 47 times that...
...most intriguing-some might say mind-boggling-success stories in the home-video game are smaller companies such as Activision and Imagic, which manufacture cartridges (at an average cost of $27) for machines produced by the biggies. "The magnitude of the growth has caught everybody by surprise," says Activision President Jim Levy, not without satisfaction. In 1979 Activision was launched with $700,000; it closed its books on fiscal 1982 sales of over $60 million. Game designers now often rate royalty agreements giving them 1% of gross sales, and over at Activision, each game comes with a prominent credit ("conceived...
...rather a television and movie documentarian ("The Selling of the Pentagon" and "Hearts and Minds"), and his technique in Hometown draws on this video background. The book consists of several contiguous but not exactly connected vignettes: a high school basketball game, a murder and subsequent trial, a bitter strike, a hot rumor. These usually fascinating little dramas, it seems, are metaphors for life in Hamilton, which is, in turn, a metaphor for life in these United States Sort of a little far removed...