Meadows Games

{{Short description|Manufacturer of coin-operated video games}}

Meadows Games was a developer and manufacturer of coin-operated video games 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.{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Alexander |title=They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry |publisher=CRC Press |year=2019 |isbn=9781138389908 |volume=1 |pages=180 |language=en |ref=refSmith2019}} 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