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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1977
Page
5
A Gazette survey shows rising demand for board games and home entertainment this Christmas. Scrabble, Monopoly, Othello, and Mastermind sold out, while video game systems with cartridges and controllers attract buyers with color, sound, and variety. Experts predict 1977 video game sales may exceed ten million and foresee future home units that blend gaming with personal computers.
Evelyn Miller of Cedar Rapids operates Feature Games from her home drafting and marketing her own inventions. Her hits include Bowle and Chekorama with sales past 500000, plus Las Vegas Bingo and Walstrete, a stock trading game. She aims to find a manufacturer or partner to push Walstrete further despite high production costs.
In Martinsville Indiana the Grassy Forks hatchery stacks 900 acres with 500 ponds and a 30-person staff raising billions of goldfish for the U S and Canada. Ira Massey 72 recalls returning to work after a brief retirement saying the job is fascinating and the fish are beautiful. Eleanor Birdwell 51 has sorted fish by color shape and size for 12 years. The facility once led the world as the largest goldfish producer now surpassed by Italy.
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