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STATE OF THE INDUSTRY Would A Ban On Gray Area Video Games Hurt Your Business? Is The Telecommunications Industry A Threat To The Coin-Op Business? Yes 37.6% Yes, Soon , 36.1 % No 26.3% 78.6% How Much Are You Charging Per Play On Pool Tables? Are Gray Area Video Poker Games Popular In Your State? .50 45.5% Yes I 1.00 13.1% .75 41.4% 27.3% New purchases of CD jukeboxes continued at a healthy rate, close to 25,000. Purchases of 45 units have dropped to only several hundred reported. Operators have about 150,000 vinyl jukeboxes still on location and about 90,000 CD boxes. The major jukebox manufacturers have discontinued manufacturing the 45 jukeboxes, and as operators replace their older 45 units, the number of CD units on location PLAY METER will rise. Redemption and Novelty Now here's a Cinderella story for you: redemption . Average weekly gross revenues for this equipment was a tremendous $261 this time, up considerably from $137 last year. Amazingly, the peak revenues were in 1990 at $252, prompting many to predict redemption was merely a fad that would fade away. The $121 aver14 age weekly collection the following year seemed to verify the belief. But it was not to fade away, and instead has grown increasingly stronger. Perhaps a better array of equipment has signaled the rise in redemption. Nearly 78% said that they felt redemption was playing a bigger role in the coin-op industry, quite an increase from the 52% who felt it was playing a bigger role last 1994 DIRECTORY