U.S.A. — Pong creator Al Alcorn told Australian IT, an online magazine, that future videogames will probably become more integrated with advertising. Novelist Stephen King writes in Entertainment Weekly that a proposed Massachusetts state law banning youth access to "violent' videogames is an obnoxious form of surrogate parenting. And Raw Thrills president Eugene Jarvis told a Chicago alternative newsweekly that "The classic arcade is probably dead," (though, he pointed out, FECs are thriving). Jarvis predicted the medium's future would increasingly see a blend of amusements and gambling. "It's no longer exciting to just play 'Pac-Man,' you gotta have money on the line," Jarvis said.

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