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RePlay Magazine Podcast - Eddie Adlum Part 2
As host publication RePlay Magazine celebrates its 50 years of covering the coin-op industry, it’s only right that Randy Chilton sits down with Publisher Eddie Adlum for a two-part episode. The...
Highlights
- Eddie Adlum coined the term 'video game' in Replay Magazine as an alternative to 'television games' or 'TV games'
- Replay Magazine has only raised subscription price $5 in its 50-year history
- The video game market crashed on June 5th, 1982, very abruptly
- Nintendo invented home video with the Alligator clips device that connected to TV sets
- Space Invaders sold over 300,000 machines with knockoffs; Mrs. Pac-Man sold 200,000 machines
- About 25 companies jumped to make Pong knockoffs after the original's success
- Billboard magazine offered to buy Replay Magazine during the video game era, but Eddie's wife Tippi declined the sale
- The record industry saw a 50% drop in revenue after video games emerged
- Pinball machines are making a comeback with manufacturers like Jersey Jack and American Pinball
Notable quotes
“I want to thank you for making me and my family financially secure for the rest of our lives.”
“I love you.”
“Eddie, you don't go into a bar to watch television. You go in the bar to promote a dame and get drunk.”
“because they see the gold at the end of the rainbow and they don't count the steps between now and then”
“over in Japan, space invaders is better than steamed rice”
“the video game fell off the cliff”
“Eddie, I got nothing to do. Says the most important man in the coin machine business.”
“I'm in the jukebox business. Right?”
“he needed a job that's his famous line I needed a job and he loves to talk and all he likes you know what he likes to do likes to talk and he likes to make pinball machines”
“You know who had the stories? Was Jerry Monday? Did you ever hear of him?”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Atari· company
- Chicago Coin· company
- Jersey Jack· company
- Midway· company
- Al Alcorn· person
- Art Dadis· person
- Bill O'Donnell· person
- Eddie Adlum· person
- Gary Stern· person
- George McCullough· person
- Ira Dettelman· person
- Joey Kamenkow· person
- Lou Walcher· person
- Mickey Greenman· person
- Nolan Bushnell· person
- Ralph Baer· person
- Sam Stern· person
- Sheila Schlender· person
- Tippi Adlum· person
- Billboard Magazine· product
- Cashbox Magazine· product
- Replay Magazine· product
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