Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihnss.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihnss!knudsen From: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.video Subject: Bad sales for Vectrex? Message-ID: <1912@ihnss.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 19:21:35 EST Article-I.D.: ihnss.1912 Posted: Mon Feb 6 19:21:35 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 10:08:28 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 12 Possible bad news for us Vectrex lovers. Went to the local McDade's yesterday (a catalog showroom discount chain around Chicago), and noticed that the once-crowded-and-dense video games & computer area was rather wide open. In particular, all Vectrex items were gone. The salesboy said they quit carrying the line. I said "Why, not selling many?" "Like zero" he replied, or words to that effect. Meanwhile, Sears has been selling the machines for $80. Hope they're moving, because poor sales will kill the golden goose for the rest of us. BTW, I've always thought that Vectrex games should sell a little cheaper (now that all other games systems are down in the teens & 20's), and they should have encouraged 3rd-party support, but did the oppposite (just like TI, rememember them?) mike k