Play Meter

Issue: 1983 December 01 - Vol 9 Num 22

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Twice a Month Publ ication for the Coin Operated Entertainment Industry
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.Yember Business Publ ications Audit
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CONTENTS/volume 9, Number 22/December 1. 1983
FEATURES
AMOA Exposition Preview
Equipment Preview ........ . . ... . ...... . . ....... .. .............. .. .... . . . 51
Operators Hesitant About Buying Equipment . .' .. . . .... ......... .. .. ... . . ... 56
Five Years Ago (in Play Meter's AMOA Show issue) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Schedule of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Exhibitors' List ....................................... .... .... . . .. .. .. ... . 68
Coinman: AMOA President Wes Lawson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
What I Hope to See at the AMOA (by Frank Seninsky) .... . . . ... . .......... 102
An Introduction to New Orleans
106
The History of the Crescent City ............... .. ....... ... . . .............
New Orleans' spicy cuisine . .... . .. . . . ........... . . ... . ...... .. . .........
Highlights of the Hilton . .. ... . . ........ .... .. .. ... .......... . ..... . ......
The bars and taverns and their jukeboxes . . ...... ... .. .. ... ... . ...... . ...
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Harry Williams: an Exceptional Man During Exceptional Times by Roger Sharpe, p. 48;
G. Manufacturing Produces Bali Dowler by Dill Kurtz. p. 125; Leverage: a Two-Edged
Sword by Charles Ross. p. 127; Can the Coin-op Industry Design Games Players Want?
by John Boyd, p. 134; Cut Your Taxes with this Year-end Tax Planner by C. Hohenstein.
p. 138; Record Keeping for the Small Business by John Cotton. p. 144; and The Name
of the Games. and the Game of the Names by Oill Drohaugh. p. 149.
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DEPARTMENTS
6 Up Front
9 Letters to the Editor
12 Equipment Poll
18 AOE '84
19 News
46 State Update
1.52 Legal Hints
1.54 Our 'cades
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For Promotion
Critic's Corner
Scoring Success
New Products
Aids to the Trade
Classified Advertising
News Drlefs
Cov•r Cr•dlt: Advertising Posters Inc. Chicago. Illinois. Artists Druce Schofernak and
Tom Schmelzer.
Publish., and Editor:
Rolph C. lolly II
Editorial Dlr.ctor:
Valerie Cognevlch
Monoglng Editor:
Lauro R. Braddock
LOW
COST
Alaocloc. Editor:
Mike Show
Edltorlol/~orch:
Down Adorno
ARCADE INSURANCE
Art Dlr.ctor:
Kotey Schwark
Typogroph.,:
Jo Ann Anthony
Dione Cooper
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Graphics O.slg~Wr:
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* Premium Financing Plans
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Jon Eisen
c/o CORROON & BLACK KN§URANCE
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Bill Brohough
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Bill Kurtz
Charles C. P.oss
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