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Editor . ..... .. ................. . ........ TONY CARTER
Advertising Manager ................. BERNIE ROGERS
Production Director ................. TONY MASHEDER
Technical Director ........................ BOB DUFFY
Editorial Addresses: Leisure Play, McMillan Martin,
Northgate, White Lund Industrial Estate, Morecambe.
Tel: 0524•3624 1.
Europe: Mary Openshaw, 44 Qua i Du Commerce
(BoxOO), 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium.
SPAINMoryOpenshawconcludesherfoscinating
seriesontheSponishindustry . ..................... . .... •••• 6
ATE Special Report and colour pictures on
the biggest and best ATE.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
.. .. 9-17
PERSONALITY FOCUS Mr. Eduardo Moroles. Vice-President
ofSegoso, Spoin.ondPresidentofFocomore.
the Spanish trade association • •••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 25
INSIDE STORY Crompton's, one of the oldest and
I best respected firms in the industry ......... . ............. 27
CENTURY A young firm with the world at its feet. .
..... · 33
ACTION Midway take action on copying. . . . . . . . .
· · · · · • · · • · 39
PR Why is the industry so reticent? ••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 41
THERAPY Video machines provide therapy for the disabled. · · · · 47
PARIS Mory Openshaw at the Foroinexpo ••••••••••••••••••••• 49
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BLACKPOOL The Northern show will be bigger than ever. ....... 57
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pTAKESStokesondprizesforAWPmochines-newrimits. .......
TECHNICAL Wiring change for Gorgor and new
Romtekmonitor .............. .. ........................ 60-61
ARTICAnewcomponywithonexcitingvideogome
plug-in concept •••• •• • • •••••••••••• • ••••• • •••••••••••••••• 69
Leisure Play Is published and printed by Tre lawney Press Lid,
White Lund Estate, Morecambe. Te l: os2, 362'1. Every care
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11 taken In 'compiling the contents of th is magazine, but the publishers
'assume no responsibility In the effect ri sing l heretrom. All p ri ces and
'data contained In advertisements are accepted by us In good fa ith
as being correct at the time of going to p ress. Adverllsers and
publishers cannot be he ld responsfble fo r any variations affecting
prices or ava ilability offer the publlca tlon has c losed tor press.
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COMMENT
The 1981 ATE was voted the best
ever by exhibitors and visitors alike. Not
many organisers of events can put on a
show as big as the ATE and please
virtually everyone. But that is exactly
what the organisers of this year's show
at Olympia achieved. They deserve the
unstinted praise of everyone in the
industry - from the record number of
exhibitors to the visitors who flocked to
Olympia in their thousands. There were
more foreign visitors than ever and they
must have gone away full of
wonderment that the British could put
on such a massive, well organised show
only months after the Alexandra
Pal9ce fire.
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Video games have come in for
some adverse publicity in the media
recently. Newspaper and television
reports have referred to the boy "who
stole so that he could play the games"
and the children who "spent their
dinner money on space theme video
games." Unfortunately there always has
to be a scapegoat these days. And it
seems video games are in line for a bit
of media bashing. It really is nonsense
to blame them for this sort of juvenile
crime. If a child has a tendency to steal,
he will steal. What he spends his ill
gotten gains on is quite immaterial.
Onahappiernoteitgivesusgreat
pleasure to report an exciting break-
through in the treatment of the severely
disabled - thanks to video game
machines (see page 4~).
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