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Vol. 6, No. 12
July 1, 1980
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Coin Operated Amusements Ltd . of
Dublin Road , Kildare , Ireland recent-
ly hosted about forty operators in an
NSM Juke Box Technical Seminar.
The seminar was particularly con-
cerned with the Festival ES 160 and
th e new electronic system which has
been developed over the past few
years by NSM . The Festival ES 160 is
completely computerized and uses
so me of the most advanced techno-
logy to serve operator , site owner ,
and custo mer .
NSM juke boxes are manufactured
at Bingen -Rhine , West Germany and
the world distributors are Lowen
Automaten of Bingen . The seminar
was conducted by NSM technical
director Rupert Mosinger , and most
of those attending operate NSM juke
boxes .
Over the past two years , sales of
juke boxes have increased and it is
expected that with the new techno-
logy and the advantages to operators
that more operators will become
involved in the phonograph end of
the coin-op business in the future ,
said Mosinger .
Coin Operated Amusements Ltd .
are also Irish agents for Electrocoin
Video Games (U.K .), Universal
Video Games (Japan) , Recel pin -
games
(Spain) ,
Compu-Game
Amusement Machines (U .K.) and
Micro Electronic Systems (Bally-
linian , County Kildare) , who recently
commenced production of video
games , the first of which is called The
Poker Game and has become
popular with operators since it came
on the market , early in 1980.
Coin Operated Amusements took
part in Coin Op '80 , the first Amuse-
ment Trades Exhibition , which was
held at the Leopardstown Exhibition
Center, April 22 to 24 , 1980,
displaying the agency's complete
range of equipment.
A detailed report on Coin Op '80
by PLAY METER's International
Editor David Snook , will be included
in the July 15 issue of PLAY
METER.
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DUBLIN - The Republic of Ireland's
first-ever coin machine trade exhibi-
tion April 22-24 proved very suc-
cessful as a show - and it presented a
platform on which Ireland's two trade
associations could push their case for
relaxing laws on slot-machine
operations .
Pressure for change in the Irish
gaming laws to permit a more
widespread , but controlled , use of
slots was a central theme in the Coin
Op 80 show . There were , however ,
few slots at the exhibition at
Leopardstown Racecourse . Of the
65 exhibitors at the show , 26 of them
were from the coin operated amuse-
ment machine business .
The Irish trade's experimental joint
exhibition (Irish Amusement Trades
Association with Irish Amusement
Caterers Association) was unques-
tioned as a large success for a first
year's effort .
A review of the Coin Op 80 show
will appear in the July 15 issue of
PLAY METER , as filed from Dublin
by International Editor David Snook .
Atendees at the recent NSM technical seminar in Kildare , Ireland hear
Martin Dempsey , sales manager of Coin Operated Amusements Ltd. and
Rupert Mosinger (right) , technical director of NSM.