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Sales of the Atari Corporation 2.0 1.5 1. 0 0.0 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986
No. 45.478 First Publlshed 1831 Tolophone: Business 2 0944; Classifieds 282 1122 32 pages 30 cents Monday, October 3, 1983 Atari video games take plunge into concrete WITH the video-game business gone microcomputer retail franchisors. sour, some manufacturers have been ComputerLand, says the industrv has dumping their excess game cartridges gone through unparalleled g wh on the market at depressed prices. during the world-wide recession ands Now Atari Inc, the leading video expected to continue as a gtuwth game manufacturer, has taken dump ndustry into the forseeable future. ing one step further. ComputerLand started in 197. and The company has dumped 14 truck- loads of discarded game cartridges and other computer equipment at the city landfi in Alamogordo, New has now grown to some 500 store. n 25 countries. But what may be true for the S Mexico. Guards kept reporters andmarket is not necessarily the same tor spectators away from the area as e local industry. According to ome workers poured concrete over the retailers, sales here have just not taken dumped merchandise. off in the way they have overseas Atari lost SUS310.5 million in the However, in Australia, Computer second quarter of the current fisca Land says that the last year has seen a year, largely because of a sharp drop 100 per cent increase in sales and that in video game sales. this type of growth is expected f. r e next few years. Despite growing pessimism about the future of the local micrcomputer market, one of the country's leading There are now 18 stores in Au and there are a further 10 fran 、. planned for 1984.
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