Twice a Month Publication for the Coin Operated Entertainment Industry
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CONTENTS/volume
8 . Number 19/0ctober 1, 1982
Note: Most of Ploy Meter's regulorfeotures hove been omitted from this special issue.
They will appear in the next issue of Ploy Meter-October 15.
BUYERS' GUIDE SPECIAL ISSUE
Your Shopping Guide
12
How do you use the 13uyers' Guide? The introduction tells you how the equipment is
presented and includes information about abbreviations and footnotes. A factory-by-
factory index informs you where each manufacturer's products ore found.
At Last!
14
Mike Show talked to people throughout the industry who tell you what to do with used
games. Warehouses and video scrap heaps don't hove to be the only locations for
used equipment.
Phonographs
25
A comprehensive listing from 1975 through 1982.
Pinballs
46
Domestic pinbolls manufactured since 1978.
Videos
83
Starting from 1978. here ore the videos produced through August 1982.
Table Games
135
From 1977 through 1982. There ore separate categories for billiard tables and other
table games. Shuffle alleys ore also included.
Novelty Games
145
Novelty games from 1976 to 1982 ore displayed. Cocktail games from 1978 ore
included as well as kiddie rides.
Cover Credit: Thanks to Atori. 13olly, Rowe. and Volley for their photographs
representing the variety of equipment in the coin-op industry. Pictured ore: Atori's
Asteroids. 13olly's Space Invaders, Rowe's Gold Mogle. and Volley's Cougar.