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By 1980, some 300,000 Space Invader video arcade games were in use in Japan, and an additional 60,000 in the United States.
At that time, a game for use in entertainment arcades was considered a hit if it sold 1000 units; sales of Space Invaders topped 300,000 units in Japan and 60,000 units overseas.
Within one year of its US release, an additional 60,000 machines had been sold. One arcade owner said of Space Invaders that it was the first arcade game whose intake "represented a significant portion of the cost of [buying] the game in any one week." That is, it was the first video game that paid for itself within about a month.
As of mid-1981, according to Steve Bloom, author of Video Invaders, more than four billion quarters had been dropped into Space Invaders games around the world
But this is 1982, and the game Space Invaders – as the Disney handout enviously reminds us – grosses over $600 million a year.
According to TEC, Atari's arcade game Space Invaders has taken in $2 billion, with net recipts of $450 million.
They compare this to the box office movie top blockbuster Star Wars, which has taken in only $486 million, for a net of $175 million.
But this is 1982, and the game Space Invaders – as the Disney handout enviously reminds us – grosses over $600 million a year.
