Play Meter Operator/Industry Surveys

I don't know how much interest there is in this kind of information but the various industry trade magazines published yearly operator/industry surveys with a number of statistics on the coin-op industry.

I was recently reviewing the surveys from Play Meter and thought I'd publish some of the stats I found most interesting. Play Meter published its first survey in 1976.

First up - average weekly earnings per machine by machine type:

	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Video Games	40	44	50	64	102	140	109	70	53	57	57
Jukeboxes	49	46	52	54	50	55	51	50	40	47	55
Pinball	35	44	62	65	63	66	55	38	41	52	51
Pool Tables	41	41	53	57	66	67	63	58	60	58	61
Foosball	39	39	41	31	20	28	31	*	26	*	*
Shufleboards	23	29	32	41?	*	*	*	*	30	31	*
Wallgames	*	33	34	29	25	26	28	*	*	*	*
Cocktail Tables	*	*	*	49	*	115	97	*	*	*	*
Air Cushion Games	*	*	*	27	34	40	39	*	*	*	*
Arcade Games	26	*	*		33	36	46	*	59	55	55
Shuffle Alleys	30	29	32	41	28	31	48	*	36	*	*
Counter Games	*	*	*	*	*	37	49	*	52	57	*

A few other categories  that weren't reported regularly:

Ball Bowlers: 1976-$25
Video Phonographs: 1984-$176
Laser Disc Video games: 1984-$120
Bar Roll-Up Games: 1984-$98
Electronic Dart Games: 1984-$55, 1985-$57, 1986-$44
Kiddie Rides: 1982-$37, 1984-$50, 1985-$21, 1986-$33

Total Machines On Location

Video Games

1980: 540,000
1981: 780,000
1982: 1,375,000
1983: 1,491,359
1984: 1,095,361

Total Coin-Op Machines (includes coin-op games, kiddie rides, and jukeboxes)

1982: 1,793,000
1983: 1,876,389
1984: 1,652,324
1985: 1,500,741
1986: 1,450000

Total Coin-Op Industry Dollar Volume (in billions)

1980: 7.15
1981: 8.2
1982: 8.9
1983: 6.4
1984: 4.5
1985: 4.5
1986: 4.0

Operators' Preferred Video Game Manufacturer

1977: Atari (59%), Bally/Midway (31%), Other (10%)
1978: Atari (69%), Bally/Midway (27%), Exidy (1%), Other (3%)
1979: Bally/Midway (49%), Atari (47%), Other (4%)
1980: Atari (54%), Bally/Midway (43%), Other (3%)

Arcade Video Game Market Share

1981: Atari (30%), Bally/Midway (26%), Williams (12%), Stern (8%), Centuri (6%), Cinematronics (5%), Sega/Gremlin (4%), Taito/Taito America (2%), Exidy (2%), Other (5%)

1982: Bally/Midway (33%), Atari (23%), Williams (11%), Nintendo (10%),  Taito/Taito Ameria (6%), Sega/Gremlin (6%), Stern (3%), Centuri (3%), Cinematronics (2%), Exidy (1%), Other (3%)

1983: Bally/Midway (25%), Atari (19%), Williams (12%), Nintendo (9%), Sega/Gremlin (6%), Gottlieb (6%), Taito/Taito America (5%), Centuri (4%), Stern (3%), Universal (2%), Rock-Ola (1%), Data East (1%), Other (7%)

1984 (Dedicated): Bally/Midway (21%), Atari (19%), Nintendo (19%), Konami/Centuri (7%), Gottlieb (7%), Cinematronics (6%), Williams (5%), Taito/Taito America (4%), Merit (3%), Coin-It (2%), Stern (1%), Exidy (1%), Universal (1%), Data East (1%), Konami/Interlogic (1%), Other (4%)

1984 (Conversion Kits): Universal (18%), Taito/Taito America (14%), Nintendo (13%), Bally/Midway (10%), Konami/Centuri (7%), Konami/Intelogic (7%), Atari (5%), Crown Vending (4%), Data East (3%), Stern (2%), Centuri (2%), Magic/Eagle (2%), SNK (2%), Cinematronics (1%),
Other (9%)