Helping You Buy
Novelties, shuffle alleys, pingames, and .countertop
games-these are a few of the equipment highlights of 1983
and late 1982. Play Meter's 1983 Annual Buyers' Guide
helps you find the equipment you need because it includes
all these types of amusement devices.
The Buyers' Guide is a comprehensive catalog of
phonographs produced since 1976, pingames from 1979,
videos since 1979, table games starting in 1978, novelty
pieces since 1977, and kiddie rides. A new category,
countertop games, is also included in the 1983 guide.
For a wrap-up of what equipment was sold in 1982
and 1983, turn to page 32. Mike Shaw interviewed manu-
facturers, open.ttors, and distributors and asked them what
they bought and sold in 1983. Although he found that
operators, for the most part, didn't buy dedicated videos,
they did buy other equipment, including conversions. To
help you figure out which models are conversions, or come
also in conversion form, these games are indicated by the
abbreviation Conv. placed next to their names.
Some manufacturers did not or could not release
pictures of games-they were either out of production,
never made production, or were not photographed within
Play Meter's deadline for this Buyers' Gui9e. But Play
Meter did make a thorough effort to get all the material,
and the editors believe that missing games represent an
insignificant percentage of machines in use.
To help you locate specific companies within the
Buyers' Guide, an index of all the manufacturers in the
guide and the 'Pages where their products appear is listed
below.
If you prefer to examine all the games within a specific
category, for example countertop games, turn to the Table
of Contents to see where the section begins. Once you
reach the countertop section, you'll see that all the pieces
are listed first in alphabetical order by manufacturer and
then in chronological order by production date.
And if you don't know who manufactured a piece of
equipment; the 1983 Buyers' Guide has an added feature to
make your searching easier. On page 15 is an alphabetical
listing of equipment by name, in categories-phonographs,
videos,pingames, table games, counteriop games, shuffle
alleys and bowlers, novelties, and kiddie rides.
Here are a few more pointers about your guide.
• Games from September 15, 1982 to September 15,
1983 are included.
• Footnotes are included at the bottom of some pages
to give you extra information about products. Whenever
possible, information about new equipment was foot-
,..
•
noted.
Index of Manufacturers
A & A ....................... 157
ADI ......................... 144
Air Table Hockey ............. 150
American Arcade Specialty Co .. 157
American Shuffleboard
Table Games ................ 144
Shuffle Alleys and Bowlers ... 152
American Suntronics ........... 89
Amstar ................... . ... 89
Amusement Technology ........ 176
Arachnid ..................... 157
Atari
Pins ....................... 63
Videos ......... . . . ......... 89
ATW ........ : . ..... . ........ 94
Automatic Toys Modena ....... 176
Autorovo / Canada ............. 178
Cinematronics ................ 101
Comefly Cartoon Factory ....... 158
Computer Kinetics ...... .- ...... 174
Continental ................... 185
Cosmos . ..................... 102
Bafco ........................ 183
B & C Mfg ................... 157
Bally I Midway
Pins ....................... 63
Videos ..................... 113
Big G Mfg. Inc ............. . .. 152
Bio-Rhythm .................. 157
Bob's Space Racers ............ 158
Brunswick ......•.............. 144
Eight-Ball National
Billiard Mfg. Co .............. 146
Elcon Industries
Videos ....... .. .......... . . 105
Novelties . . ................. 158
Electro Mobiltechnik .......... 186
Electro-Sport ................. 105
Entertainment Enterprises ...... 174
Enter-Tech ... . .... . .......... 106
Exidy
Videos ...... . ............... 106
Shuffle Aileys ~nd Bowlers ... 152
Carousel ..................... 185
Centuri ...................... 94
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Data East ..... . .............. 102
Destron
Videos . ..... . .............. 113
Novelties .. . .. · . . ............ 158
Digital Controls ............... 174
Dufferin Inc . . . .. .. ............ 152
Dynamo
Videos ... ... . .............. 104
Table Games ..... . .......... 145
Other Table Games .......... 150
J.F. Frantz Mfg ............... 158
Galaxy Amusements ........... 187
Game-A-Tron · '
Videos ..................... lll
Novelties ................... 164
Game Plan Inc.
Pins . . ..................... 73
Videos ..................... Ill
Gametronics .................. 164
Gino Rondina
Novelties ................... 164
Kiddie Rides ................ 187
GLAK Associates ............. 112
D. Gottlieb (Mylstar)
Pins ....................... 73
Videos ..... , .. . ............ 112
Honda ....................... 164
House of Cards ............... 174
IDEA ........................ 166
Innovative Concepts
· in Entertainment ............. 166
Innovative Promotions ......... 166
Intermark .................... 166
International Billiard ........... 146
Irving Kaye ................... 146
Jiffy Rides .............. , ..... 190
PLAY METER. October 1, 1983