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From: jvs@iwsl7.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Age of Video Game Players
Message-ID: <106@iwsl7.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Aug-83 09:14:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  5 09:14:50 1983
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Fellow Netters,

With all of this discussion about the typical age of video game players
going on these days, I think it's time that we attempted to settle this
question along with a few others.  Yes, I'm proposing a survey.  Any kind
of video game related information that any of us find interesting can be
accumulated this way.

All survey topic suggestions are welcome.  I myself would like to suggest
that we accumulate information on the following:

		player age
		most popular games
		highest scores on these games
		$$ spent on games (yearly, weekly, whatever)
		playing frequency

These are things that I'm interested in and I'm probably not alone.  This
list is not written in stone of course.  I think this survey should stick
to arcade type games since home video games are a whole different thing
(perhaps we could have a seperate survey for them).  I'm willing to volunteer
my services as surveyor and data collecter.  I will summarize all response
to me and later post it to the net.

First let's come up with a questioner (which I will post).  Once we come
up with a standard set of questions I'll start collecting info.

Tell me what you think.
                                              John V. Smith