Meadows Games was a developer and manufacturer of coin-operated
video game
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s established by Harry Kurek as a subsidiary of his contract manufacturing company, Meadows Manufacturing, in 1974. Kurek established the company because he felt the economy of the United States was headed into a recession and he wanted to enter a business he felt would be "recession proof". The company scored a major hit with its 1974 release Flim-Flam, a cocktail-table ball-and-paddle game that sold over 12,000 units. Subsequent games were not as successful, and Kurek sold the company to Holosonics in 1978. Holosonics closed the company down the next year.
[ Smith 2019, pp. 443]
Games
* 3-D Bowling (1978)
* Bigfoot Bonkers (1976)
* Bombs Away (1976)
* Ckidzo (1976)
* Cobra Gunship (1976)
* Deadeye (1978)
* Drop Zone 4 (1975)
* Flim-Flam (1974)
* Flim Flam II (1975)
* Gridiron (1979)
* Gypsy Juggler (1978)
* Inferno (1978)
* Lazer Command (1976)
* Meadows 4 In 1 (1976)
* Meadows Lanes (1977)
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