[The modem game market] should go through extreme rapid growth in the next few years, like software did in the early ’80s. I predict double-digit growth in the next five years.
Predictor: Gehorsam, Robert
Prediction, in context:In a 1990 article in Compute, Mickey McLean reports on the entertainment format of gaming by modem on the network. McLean writes:”Modem-specific games and online entertainment remain in limbo between software publishers and telecommunications services, but there’s hope that they may yet capture a significant share of the computer entertainment market – provided, of course, that they get the backing they need … ‘People three years ago didn’t know what a modem could do,’ says Robert Gehorsam, manager of editorial product development for Prodigy. ‘[The modem game market] should go through extreme rapid growth in the next few years, like software did in the early ’80s. I predict double-digit growth in the next five years.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1990
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Gaming
Name of publication: Compute
Title, headline, chapter name: Games By Wire: Modem Play and Online Entertainment Spark New Fire for PC Gamers
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 68
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty