^Everett M. Rogers & Judith K. Larsen, Silicon Valley fever: growth of high-technology culture, Basic Books: 263, 1984 [2015-04-18], ISBN 0-465-07821-4, (原始內容存檔於2017-01-15), Video game machines have an average weekly take of $109 per machine. The video arcade industry took in $8 billion in quarters in 1982, surpassing pop music (at $4 billion in sales per year) and Hollywood films ($3 billion). Those 32 billion arcade games played translate to 143 games for every man, woman, and child in America. A recent Atari survey showed that 86 percent of the US population from 13 to 20 has played some kind of video game and an estimated 8 million US homes have video games hooked up to the television set. Sales of home video games were $3.8 billion in 1982, approximately half that of video game arcades.