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Meadows Games was a developer and manufacturer of coin-operated video games established by Harry Kurek as a subsidiary of his contract manufacturing company, Meadows Manufacturing, in 1974. Kurek established the company because he felt the economy of the United States was headed into a recession and he wanted to enter a business he felt would be "recession proof". The company scored a major hit with its 1974 release Flim-Flam, a cocktail-table ball-and-paddle game that sold over 12,000 units.[1] Subsequent games were not as successful, and Kurek sold the company to Holosonics in 1978. Holosonics closed the company down the next year.[2]

Games

  • 3-D Bowling (1978)
  • Bigfoot Bonkers (1976)
  • Bombs Away (1976)
  • Ckidzo (1976)
  • Cobra Gunship (1976)
  • Deadeye (1978)
  • Drop Zone 4 (1975)
  • Flim Flam II (1975)
  • Flim-Flam (1974)
  • Gridiron (1979)
  • Gypsy Juggler (1978)
  • Lazer Command (1976)
  • Meadows 4 In 1 (1976)
  • Meadows Lanes (1977)

References

  1. ^ Smith, Alexander (2019). They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry. Vol. 1. CRC Press. p. 180. ISBN 9781138389908.
  2. ^ Smith 2019, pp. 443

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