Thursday, February 7, 2008

Billboard Magazine: Glenn Rubenstein has got it going on (circa 1993)

LAS VEGAS--Want to know which hot video games home video retailers should have their control pads tuned to this fall?

Ask 17-year-old Glenn Rubenstein, author of the San Francisco Examiner "At The Controls" syndicated video games column.

He was a panelist here on a "Video Games 201: The Second Level Of Retailing" seminar during the 12th annual Video Software Dealers Assn. convention held here.

According to Rubenstein, the ways kids find out about new, potentially hot games are through consumer games magazines, newspaper columns such as his own, advertising, and "word of mouth." The latter is of critical importance.

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(Article originally appeared in Billboard Magazine)

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