Location-Thirteen
guide to the equipment
GRAND PRIX:
Taito threw their considerable weight into the battle for laser game
sales with this considerable game. lt was the first driving
game-Taito tend to stick with what they do best!-to hit the laser
market and was a brilliant combination of cartoon images and
inter-related genuine film. Sound to emerge as one of the leaders.
M.A.C.H. 3:
Perhaps the leader at present, the Mylstar Electronics game has
certainly attracted · the lion's share of the media and trade press
attention-although we should temper that with the realisation that
the Atari piece has not yet really been thrown into the ring . A super
game of aerial warfare.
GOAL TOGO:
Another Stern game and one with very dubious appeal outside North
America because it is all about American football. Real film
sequences are used and interfacing with the player is strong . The
North American sales alone cou Id prove immense, so we're sure that
Stern are not bothered about the rest of the world with this one.
NFL FOOTBALL:
Within weeks of AMOA's launch of Stern's Goal To Go, Sally-Midway
launched this American football game, but the work that has gone
into it makes it obvious that it has been in research and development
for some considerable time. A tie-up with the National Football
League itself on promotion will undoubtedly help the game, even
without the heavyweight plugging that Sally-Midway's resources can
provide. The game processes close to one and a hait billion bits of
data, Sally's Robert Mullane claims.
LASER SHUFFLE:
A video card game with a simple laser connection built in the US by
Status Game Corporation. Depending on how you do with the card
game, a film sequence appears with a suitable comment from an old
feature film or a specially shot sequence. Novel and comparatively
inexpensive to put together.
The company of the same name in the United Kingdom manufacture
this horse racing game through Summit Coin. Very much a gambling
game in which the player places his bets in coin acceptors and plays
the odds against a real horse race, Video Turf has a precise but
lucrative market all of its own.
MUSIC too has its laser-operated products and the first to be announced in early October was
one from Wurlitzer, the West German manufacturers. Only a prototype of their unit linked to a
Philips Laser Vision player has yet been seen, but the advantages of using laser dises instead
of tapes is obvious and by the time ATE International opens at the end of February everything
should be complete.
VIDEO TURF:
LASER VIDEODISC:
From Videodisc Jukebox Inc., an American company, this was one of
two laser dise jukeboxes to be launched at the AMOA show in
October. lt is probably too early to say whether this particular product
is everything one would expect.
LASER VIDEO
MUSIC:
This was another at AMOA, this time frq_m Laser Dise Computer
Systems Inc. and again, it did not appear to ba totally complete.
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