Play Meter

Issue: 1976 May - Vol 2 Num 5

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FREE Up·TO·DATE CATALOG and sam ples show 109
vending machine lables. manufactured to meet your
local requirements. SETON NAME PLATE CORP.
2050·Boulevard. New Haven. Ct. 00505
COIN MACHINES WANTED··We Will buv all your
flippers. large or small quantity . A r ~' :dte model
Ro ck·Dla phonographs. Call colle ct · NEW WAY
SALES COMPANY LTD .• Toronto. Canada 1416 1
531 ·2000.
Write for SPECIAL PRICESI
FOR SALE: HIGH HAND $485.00, GRAND SLAM
$385.00, BIG SHOT $585.00, SPACE TIME$515.oo, NIP
IT $495.00, OLYMPICS $515.00, GOLD RECORD $600.00,
TURF CLUB $415:00, SPEED KING $625.00. TWIN
SKEET SHOOT GUN $515.00, GRAND NATIONAL
$595.00, MOTD CHAMP $650.00, GANGBUSTERS
$625.00, GOAL TENDER $385.00, SUPER SHIFTER
$715.00. MONTE CARLO $350.00, STEEPLECHASE
$1 ,350.00, TANK $985.00, FORMULA K$l50.oo, OWAK
$615.00, Ramtek's BASEBALL $825.00, TRIVIA $850.00.
DYNAMO $425.00. FLYING ACE $635.00, BIO RHYTHM
$515.00, SWAGRAB $1 ,015.00. New Orleans Novelty
Co., 1055 Dryades St., New Orleans. Louisiana 10m.
Tel. 15041 52!1-7321 . CABLE: NONOVCD.
SC HOO L FOR GAM ES & MUSIC 0 E TO FOUR
WEEK COURSES Phonos . Flippers and BlOgos By
schema ucs CAL'S COl COLLEG E PO BOl 81 0
leoma Pa rk Dkla 13066 405 7 ~q 5343
Allied Leasure's
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FIREPOWER
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REPAIR PARTS . Downey·Johnson. Keene . Klopp
COin Counter. Sorters. We rebuild . 3.4. Barr el Belt
Changers. Write prices. Literature. AKRON COIN
COUNTIN G. 3720·PM E. 59th. Tulsa . Okla. 14135.
Phone 19181 142·5144
BRAND NEW
IN ORIGINAL CARTONS
LOGIC REPAIRS $1000 plus pans. 60 day guarantee
24 hour turnaround. ASC . 32 Franklin St.. OUlOcy. MA
!Tl169 611 713 1804
ATLAS MUSIC CO.
2122 N. Western Avenue
Chicago, ILL 60647
Phone: 3121276-5005
Established 1934
PLAY METER
CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING
SMALL OUTPUT , BIG II\JPUT
Coin Sorter Speeds Counting
• Sorts, stacks, groups
and counts
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• Aids wrapping
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• Verified counts
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• Cuts time by 50% to
:: •• , ~ 75% over hand work
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Only $39 .95
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order now f'o r two .-..Ie:
fre. t,I.1
NADEX Industries Inc. Dept.
Classif ied ad rate: 30 cen ts
per word. coun t ing a/l
word s that
ppear in ad .
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accep t ed
M i n irn u rn
S5 .00 CASH or CHECK
sho u ld accorn pany orde rs .
WANTED·Gottlieb Add A Balls, Tank II, Gun Fight,
Wheels, Clean Sweep, Indy 8, Racer, Digital Rockola
and Seeburg Jukes & Wall boxes, Bally Twin Win,
Gottlieb Home Run, Demolition Derby, Trak 10,
Statley Model S Coin Counter Sorter. Mail current list
with prices to Stehr Vending Co., Box 218, Sparta,
N.J. 01811 or call 1201 1 72!1-6171 .
WANTED
• Old Gaming Mnchines
• Old Counter Games
• Old Juke Boxes (Pre 1948)
WHILE THEY LA T
R econditioned·-R ef inished
ALLIED WILD CYCLE
A TARI GOTCHA TV
IRVING KA YE STANLEY
CUP HOCKEY, 7'
KEE PIKE, VOLLEY BALL
TV
MCI DE ERT FOX
MCI RED BARON
MCI U-BOA T,. Updat d
RAMTEK VOLLY TV
WILLIAM GRIDIRON, 2 PL.
NUTTING PA CE BALL TV
Terms: 25% Dep., Bal. ight
Draft
Write or call f or complete list:
Games, Music, V nding, etc.
World Wide Distributing Co.
2734 W . Fullerton , Chicago , Il60647
Phone : 31 21384·2300
A Div. of American Recreation Group
LOGIC REPAIRS
$10.00 plus parts
24 HourTurnaround
Call or Write
ASC DIST. SALES
32 Franklin St.
Quincy, Mass. , 02169
617-773-1804
Details Free
PLAY METER
P.0 . Box 24170
New Orleans. Louisiana 70184
liRE YOU A CLAM ? We hope not Th':i Vibrant young
• Old Nickelodeons or Orch -
estrians
• Old Arcade Games (pre 1940)
• Old Pin balls (Pre 1950)
• literature , Brochures or
Operating Manuals on same
Call person to person COL LEC7
to E.J. Cummings (605)336-3398
Or write to me at 300 South
lewis, Sioux Falls. S . D. 57103.
50
ONLY $195 EACH!
Mai l your message to :
17 4 2 6
220 Dell.lr. Ave., Bufhlo, N. Y. 14202
WANTED .. Any quantity Seeburg USC·2 Firestars and
SX 100 Marauder phonographs . Must be clean.
complete & Dperative, not necessarily shopped.
Send list & prices to Export Dept. P.O. Box 24110,
New Orleans, LA 10184.
trade lournal needs Vibrant writers from wllhll1 and
without the Industry . If you have something to say In
anlcle form. send queries to Dept. W. P.O. Box 24110.
New Orleans. La. 10184.
go to and play alone. The only other thing I could
play alone is solitaire and maybe some video games,
but the video games won't give me the sound or t he
ense of visual or auditory accomplishment.
PLAY METER: It's a physical endeavor as well,
isn't it?
SHARPE: Definit~ly. It is hand and eye coordin-
ation at its finest degree. If you don't have it right,
you're not going to get it right. You might as well
walk away from the machine if you can't relax and let
if flow .
PLA Y METER: A lot of video games are
beginning to put more of emphasis on hand and eye
coordination, too.
SHARPE: Fine and I commend them for it. But
video games are just a different medium for me; sort
of like the difference between communications critic
Marshall McLuhan's "hot" and "cold" media. A hot
medium is something with which you can interact
and pinball has that quality.
Most video games have a predetermined path for
that bleep to go across the screen and in most cases
you could probably physically pick up the machine
and throw it across the room and it wouldn't change
that. Some of them are changing a bit and there have
been some I thought were marvelous. But whether
any can capture or hold my interest for any long
period of time I doubt.
PLAY METER: Will video games ever present to
you the challenge, skill and intimacy of pinball?
SHARPE: I don't know . I've done a lot of thinking
on that in terms of where the industry's going and in
terms of solid -state, which will probably be a reality
before all of us die.
In a lot of ways it saddens me because I know
maybe within 10 years or so, there's going to be a
generation of players who will look upon the games of
the '70's the way we look upon games of the '30's. If
we're not careful we're going to destroy something
that is very special, unique and very much a part of
many people's lives.
You can't bastardize it; that's the only term I can
think of. The components are there for a pinball
machine to act they way it does. You have basics that
players expect--I want to see thumper bumpers, I
want to see flippers I want to see targets or
something, I want to hear that noise and see the
lights go. I want enough excitement there t hat I can't
get the quarter out of my pocket fast enough.
I commend the pinball manufacturers for taking
their time, for looking before they leap on solid-state.
They have something that has too much of a quality
to change overnight.
PLAY METER: If pinball provides this rich
entertainment experience, and it's obvious the public
thinks it does, why haven't many legislators kept
pace with the times?
SHARPE: There are only two large metropolitan
areas where they're outlawed--Chicago and New
York. (New York City may soon legalize them.) I
went to every major city in Europe and they were
thriving.
I think you have many legislators who go back to
30-40 years ago, who remember payout games, who
still think there's a criminal element involved with
pinball. They equate pinball with coin machines and
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