ARCADE PROFITS DROP:

1983 July 17 (NB) -- The discouraging news is that video arcade profits are expected to drop from $7 billion last year to $5.3 billion by this December, with many arcade-houses seeing income off 25 to 50 percent. Many are banking on new types of games to win back the kids, such as the laser-disk animated cartoon "Dragon's Lair" from a former Walt Disney cartoonist Don Bluth.

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