Play Meter

Issue: 1975 February - Vol 1 Num 3

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I have just received Volume l/No. 2
of Play Meter and I am absolutely
delighted with what I see.
For too many years the music and
games segment of the coin machine
industry has been a stepchild to vend ·
ing and the time is long overdue when
games and music are recognized and
assume their proper place in the in-
dustry.
I am particularly impressed with
your editorials and the apparent in-
depth study that your staff must have
given those areas covered in your
editorials. You have a fresh new ap-
proach to publicizing our industry
which I am sure will make Play Meter
successful.
Let me take this opportunity to
t hank you for your favorable com -
ments regarding the D RA Price Guide.
We are celebrating our Tenth Anniver-
sary th is month and look forward to
many years of association with you as
one of our very limited membership of
coin machine publications.
Ozzie Truppman
President
D istributor s Research A ssociates
Miami, Fla.
We are pleased to inform you that
we received our January issue of the
new "Coin Industry Play Meter" and
we want to again compliment you on a
well -prepared issue.
Fred Skor
Wor ld Wide Distri butors, Inc.
Chicago, III.
Our office staff enjoyed reading the
first edition of Play Me ter very much.
We were impressed with not only the
writing style but the layout technique,
as well. We hope to continue reading
your informative magazine in the
future. Best wishes for a successful
publication .
Jeanne Werner
Commun i cations Director
Wiscon sin Music Merchants
A ssociation , Inc_
Milwaukee, Wisc.
I have just read V olume l / No . 2
and it is indeed impressive . The in-
dustry needs a magazine of this type
and I hope you will receive the sup-
port and help you will need to suc-
ceed .
I note that you have wisely avoided
the p itfall of attempt ing to compile
and print a price list. Good luck!
Joe Robb ins
Vice President
Empire D i str ibuting Co.
Chicago, III.
Congratulations on a f ine publica-
tion. I just read my complimentary
copy today .
Gerald D _ Goudeau, Owner
Gerald ' s Amusement Machines
Lafayette, La _
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By GENE BELEY
The winds of revolu tion are blowing.
In the coin-operated game field, until recent! .
you could fix alm o t any electro-mechanical ma-
chine with on ly th help of a schematic, screw-
drivers a pair of wire cutters. point file an i
point-ben ders.
inet per cent of the time, ex -
perienced op rators probably don't even need the
s h matic or more than one of those tool to fix
the machine. uch ingenius operator are equiva-
lent to th e
arly aviators who flew b
the
at-of-their-pant b fore ophi ticated navigational
instruments were introduced.
Now, with the intr duction of video and mor
solid-state games. the need for highly ophi ti -
cated tool becomes a pparent. I n fact, mo t oper-
ator mu t learn how to repair their own logic
board and
ideo problems [0 survive in the
marketplace.
Prob .
cillo cope. Logic prints. New word in
an operator vocabular. ew word. new t o ols for
a tota ll new era.
What cool doe a n operator need to begin
repairing olid-statc game ?
Jim Tomei, video game technician, .A . Robin-
on &
mpan, a large di tributor in Lo Angele.
first expre se a hope that more mechanic will
take courses in ba ic electronic. As for [001 . the
basic he recommend are:
- low \ attage oldering iron:
- video probe;
- logic probe.
LYLE LOWDEN. of Redondo Beach. California. another
one of the first class of students in the new Comit school.
works on a logic board. using a solder sucker to remove the
molten solder from his work area. prior to freeing the
desired component. Lowden. whose prior experience is in
the electronics field outside the game industry. came to the
Comit Institute of Technology "because this is a flew
technology just opening and I want to get into it now."
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