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The amusement business had never seen anything like it with names like Pacman and Space Invaders video games instantly soared in popularity. The first new form of arcade game since the pinball machine, hundreds of millions of quarters poured into the games. They became so popular that towns across the country banned them, fearful that their youth would waste away as video junkies. Well, the boom years for video games are over despite *** new generation of ever more sophisticated games business at video games and arcades is off in some places as much as 80% arcades everywhere are suffering. Some are closing fun and games in Framingham, *** Mecca for such devotions. Video game income is down 20%. According to Paul Cohen, the owner who says the drop was predictable by the same token, it's still *** viable business. As you can see, plenty of people are here and enjoying themselves tonight. Why the decline? Well, there are more home video games around but sales of those are also way down. Cohen thinks negative news reporting about video games hurt some but basically the fad is simply past its peak video games I don't think are as popular as they were before. They aren't with you. Huh? How come more things to do? There are of course new video games coming on the market all the time with names like hyper Sports and Cobra Command. But the genre of video games is no longer new. The business people who invested their futures in that fad, the fad that is now waning are suffering at the Fun and Games Arcade in Framingham, David Rope for *** new center five tonight.