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Williams Electronics and Dolly Manufacturing ore In the process of coming to on agreement
whereby Dolly will purchase the coln-op amusements assets of Williams.
P.ecent dramatic declines in the price of Williams' stock has led the company to consider
divesting itself of Its coln-op business. which will show o $5 million to $6 million pre-tax operating loss
for the fourth quarter 19&3, and concentrate on Its gambling casino business. which already has
netted o $16 million gain this year.
Neither company would discuss further the proposed transaction because of a lock of a signed
agreement. (More details will appear in the January 15 issue.)
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ew York City police made seven arrests ovember 9, culminating a five-month ' sting " operation
conducted to determine the influence of organized crime on video gam locations. " We attempted to set
up a legal video parlor ... we couldn't get very far without falling into illegal activitie ," commented
Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman at a press conference. Two organized cri me figur s were
among those arrested . (More details will appear in an upcoming issue of Play M t er. )
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Mylstar has added two distributors. Audio Visual Am us ments of St. Louis wa s tak n into the Mylstar
network when its president, Peter Entringer, bought Morris ovelty, the Mylstar (Gottlieb ) distributor for St.
Louis for more than 30 years. Mylstar strengthened its position in the Milwaukee mark et by adding London
Distributing Corporation.
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The AMOA has initiated a special scholarship fund in honor of former association Pr sident Wayne
Hesch. Hesch died during a vacation in Miami following the 1982 AMOA Exposition . AMOA is asking for
contributions to set up the fund, which will be administered under a new education foundation being
established as a division of AMOA . Once the fund principal is established, interest from the account will be
disseminated each year to students whose applications are approved by an AMOA c holarship co mmittee .
Application for scholarship funds is open to the public.
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The confusion over who has the right to market electronic dart games to the coin-op industry has
been furthered by an antitrust and libel suit filed by Arachnid , the manufacturer of Engli h Mark Dart ,
against IDEA Ltd., the producer of Century Dartes. (Play M t r, September 1, 1983 p. 26.) Among other
accusations, the suit claims IDEA and its marketing partners took design ideas from Arachnid to develop an
electronic dart game with the intention of squeezing Arachnid out of the dart market. It also claims an
O ctober 1, 1983, ad in Play Meter contending IDEA's products are not copyright infringements of Arachnid's
product is "libelous, defamatory, false, and otherwise misleading."
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PLAY METER, December 31 , 1963