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the industry forever by michelle delgado smithsonianmag.com smithsonianmag.com | may , , a.m. when tim crist was five years old, he walked into a pizza hut in potsdam, new york, and his life changed forever. it was , and a new video game was getting a lot of buzz. crist slipped a quarter into the machine
arcade games. within a year and a half, namco sold pac-man cabinets —the equivalent of $ billion in sales today. by , americans were pouring an estimated $ million , quarter by quarter, into pac-man each week. in washington d.c., arcade games brought in so much revenue that the city council proposed doubling...
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