Play Meter

Issue: 1982 January 01 - Vol 8 Num 2

Letters to
the editor. • •
In that vein, I have submitted
another qui z, which I hope your
readers enjoy. It's a the me quiz, and
covers coin-op games that have
appeared on TV or movies.
W illia m Bro h a ugh
C inc innati, Ohio
I Ed. note: Y o u caught us napping, Bill!
Readers will find Brohaugh's "Media
Quiz" inside an upcoming issue. ]
Results marginal
operator. The idea is great but the
results have been marginal on our
route.
On all video accounts where new
machines are requested I include a
guarantee.
I have been disappointed to find
someone came alo ng behind me and
offered a 50/ 50 s plit. I guess it will be
slow, like going to 50¢ on pool. (We
were one of the first).
Everyone should wake up to the
cost in this business and realize you
are a fool to give it a ll away.
Tony Pola nsky
Ever ead y Ve nding In c.
Dallas
I read wit h interest all letters and
articles about a better split for the
Dynamo Announces
Are there r easons?
I write to you as a concerned
employee of the coin-operated
business. I pose a question that I ask
you address to the manufacturers of
today's coin-o pe rated video games
and to the leadership of the AMOA. I
also ask that a poll be taken of the
industry to see if there is a number of
those who share my feelings.
My question is this: "Why doesn't
this industry have a nationa l adver-
tising campaign, directed at the
family, as the bowling industry does?"
These ads should expound on the
pure enjoyment of playing video
games!
Are there good reasons why we
don't ha ve television advertising? If
so, possibly we could hear them in
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It seems that our industry is
already in television advertising
thanks to Atari. How long before
Chuck E. C heese Pizza T ime
Theatre s are doing it also? So, why
not the manufacturers, with a little
push from AMOA?
Ton y P rocopio
Bally North east Distributing
Syracuse, New York
In a trivial vein
I enjoyed the coin-op trivia quiz in the
annual Buyer's Guide [Play Meter,
Oc tober 15]. However, I take slight
issue with one of the questions: #2
asks which is the only pingame
depic ted on another pingame's
backglass. Wizard is technically
right, but in addition to Capt.
Fantastic , Wiz ard appears on Sliver-
ball Mania.
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Army and Air Force PX operators signed on board the association: shown here with AMOA President Pink (ce nter).
Copyright battle is ongoing
AMOA officers map action
for industry crusades
By Ray E. T illey
The AMOA put on its war paint to
ready for a new round of legislative
fighting over the jukebox copyright
royalty issue while celebrating its
past year of activity and electing
officers for 1982, in its October 30
general membership meeting during
the Expo in Chicago.
Outgoing President Norm Pink
told the members hip: " If there's any
change I would like to remember
from my a dministration, it is
coop e ration between manufac -
turers, distributors, and operators ....
Our indus try is changing, it is
growing, and we must grow with it;
1982 promises to be a fruitful year for
all of us."
To usher in the association's new
year, the members ratified the
election of Mrs . Leoma Ballard
Belle, West Virginia operator, a~
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AMOA president. An AMOA
me mber since 1954, she was elected
to the board of directors in 1968. She
told her fellow AMOA members: "I
have a solid feeling of accomplish·
me nt. I look forward to serving as
your president. I believe people in
this indus try a re beautiful and unique
people."
In he r inaugural talk, Ballard
s tressed a belief in the free enterprise
system a nd called for "unity to reach
our goals." When the AMOA
recently was not able to receive relief
from jukebox royalty fee require·
ments, she said, "failure just meant
we found a way it didn't work," and
s he called for a new goal to be
reached.
Pink pointed to such a goal in the
jukebox fee fight , with a $25 per-box
fee approaching in 1982. "This
industry can no longer sit bac k and
have our equipment ta xed away," he
declared. He noted the former
MOA's defeat of royalty bills prior to
1967 and that in 1969 the association
agreed to the concept of a per-box
fee only if no upward sliding
adjustment were to be made.
With both those burdens, a pre·
jukebox fee and a sliding scale, now
in effect by Copyright Royalty
Tribunal edict, the AMOA has
petitioned Congress to amend the
Copyright Royalty Act of 1976 and to
repeal Section 116 of that law,
thereby exempting coin-op phono-
g r aphs from infringement of
copyright- which would undercut
the requirement for per-jukebox fees
if the AMOA initiative succeeds.
(See related story o n the AMOA's
amendmen t proposal to Congress.)
Pink called on membership to
wage "a campaign we have never
seen befo re." He pointed out that, in
legislative battle agai n st the
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