#ORIGINAL DINER DASH UPGRADE#
The player earns points for getting the job done and is rewarded by getting to upgrade the restaurant, like hiring a mime to entertain customers. The player takes on her character as she races to seat customers, take their orders, serve food, bus up the tables and, of course, pick up the check. In the original Diner Dash, Flo quits her high-powered job as a stockbroker to open a restaurant. On MSN Games, it is consistently one of the top 20 among the hundreds of online games offered. They're still working their minds."ĭiner Dash has become PlayFirst's biggest hit and has been played more than 100 million times, the company said. You can jump in and out of the game," Sikora said. "Games become a place they can take 20-minute break. "Women don't admit it," Sikora said.įrom a series of focus groups, Microsoft found that women found the games a welcome distraction that allowed them to be productive in the long run. That demographic often is overlooked because women don't talk about their game-playing habits. At MSN Games, Microsoft's online gaming Web site, about 70 percent of the 9 million users are women, and more than 50 percent of them are 35 and older, said Lisa Sikora, group marketing manager for Microsoft casual games. "It's a new group who hasn't gamed before," said Michael Goodman, a senior analyst at the Yankee Group. The growth is largely from women, many of them 35 and older. Though often overshadowed by the male-dominated action game industry, the fast-growing market is expected to crack the $1 billion mark in the next three to five years, according to the Yankee Group, a market research firm.
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Like Diner Dash, they're easy to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time. These online games include puzzles, word scrambles, arcade and card games. Diner Dash 2 follows last year's original Diner Dash, which attracted hundreds of thousands of players and underscored the popularity of casual online games.