Beep. Bong. Replace Shh! in the Library When Video Games are Added to the Collection

Abstract

For the last two years the prices of Atari's games and computers have dropped so much that the company was forced to dump—literally—thousands of dollars worth of games and equipment. According to an article in The New York Times (September 28, 1983), faced with a major slump in the sale of video games and a loss of $310.5 million in the second quarter of 1983, Atari dumped 14 truckloads of games and computer equipment into a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. However, in spite of the decreasing sales of video games and decreasing attendance at arcades, attendance and circulation are up at the handful of libraries around the country that own/loan video games.

Citation

Emmens, C.A. (1984), "Beep. Bong. Replace Shh! in the Library When Video Games are Added to the Collection", Collection Building, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 15-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023136