41.   Retailers nationwide maintain customer waiting lists for the game machine, and most stopped taking orders during the summer, said Funk.

42.   Sega, meanwhile, had fallen behind both Sony and Nintendo in the latest generation of home video game machines.

43.   Sega of America unseated Nintendo last year as the market-share leader in sales of the most powerful game machines in the United States.

44.   Sometimes, a computer gets demoted to doing different things, like being a game machine or someplace to experiment with Linux.

45.   Sony Computer is responsible for sales of the PlayStation game machine.

46.   Sony has several advantages compared with other game machine makers.

47.   Sony Corp. in January will debut its first game machine, the Playstation.

48.   Tetris is one of the mainstay games available for the Nintendo Gameboy, a handheld game machine.

49.   The business runs in fairly predictable four- to five-year cycles that begin when a new generation of game machines is introduced.

50.   The company will also write off stockpiles of unsold older game machines in the U.S. and cut more jobs, Nakamura told a Tokyo press conference.