SURVEY OF HIGH SCORES

RESPONSE TO SURVEY IN LAST ISSUE

It was just a few days after our first issue hit the magazine stands that we started to receive responses to the reader survey it it. Since this was our first issue, we had no idea what to expect. As it turned out, the return rate of the surveys was surprisingly high. When the forms and letters began to come in at the rate of 10 to 20 a day, we decided that the time had come to sit down and compile some statistics.

We found that nine out of ten readers are male, about the norm for video gaming and computer magazines. As with our parent publication, Creative Computing, the readers of Video & Arcade Games have a high socio-economic profile with an average household income of $35,280.

Most readers are young, enthusiastic game players, spending nearly 16 hours per week on average playing various kinds of games.

Average Number of hours spent per week playing:

Home video games..........6.9
Computer games.............3.7
Coin-op arcade games.....3.3
Electronic games..............0.9
Board games....................0.8

Under the free-response section, many readers voiced the same suggestions. Some of the most common include:

Jerry Botts, Jr.: "Publish more high scores of arcade and computer games."

--Due to the great number of you with this request, we have expanded our high score section to cover the most popular games on the leading systems. If we receive enough input, we will also cover the Astrocade, Odyssey, Vectrex, Atari 5200, and Vic-20.

Jeff Totty: "Print more color screen shots of gameplay with reviews."

--As you can see if you have been flipping through this issue, the magazine has taken on a much brighter look. We hope you like it.

Steve Davis: "Will you have a questions and answers column? How about letters to the editor?"

--We would love to publish letters to the editor, as well as answers to common questions. Unfortunately, we can't write the letters to ourselves; you have to do that part.

Lori Ciani: "No suggestions. I think it's great. It's the best magazine I ever saw."

--What can we say, Lori? Thanks.