"Thrills and violence are the big money-spinners, you can exterminate aliens from outer space, pit your wits against a mad axeman, or simply crash you car, all in comfort."
Laurie Mayer reports from the Amusement Trade Show at Alexandra Palace. The amusement industry, once dominated by pinball and other largely mechanical mechanical machines, has wholeheartedly embraced the microchip revolution. The popularity of video game machines like Space Invaders, may have already changed the nature of the amusement arcade forever.
This clip is from Nationwide, originally broadcast 30 January, 1980.
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