That movie game out during the early rise of the cartridge when movie makers thought that arcade movies were going to be box office gold.
ATK bought the ammunition-maker Federal Cartridge Company in 2001.
The Quantum Corporation, a maker of cartridges and disk drives that store computer data, said yesterday that it would cut an unspecified number of jobs by March, the end of its fiscal year, to reduce costs.
Indeed, some makers' "XL" cartridges may contain less ink than standard cartridges issued a few years ago.
In 1995 the game business slumped as makers left behind old cartridge formats for jazzier CD-ROM players.
This not only highlights the essentially unknowable vagaries of the entertainment business, but also points out a unique flaw in the business model for cartridge, as opposed to CD-ROM, game makers.
Most hobbyists will bristle at having to deal with a hermetically sealed case and filament cartridge but, as HP and other printer makers well know, the money isn't in the printer, it's in the ink.
So if you want to continue using the warranty, it is best that you buy inkjet cartridges that are manufactured by the same maker of your printer.
Some printer makers combine all the colors into one cartridge, which is convenient during installation.
The maker of the device, Fuhu, brags: No cartridges; no AA batteries and includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
