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Parental guidance
In refe rence to the c o lumn " Ba n
A ut ho r C ritiq u es Indu stry, " ( Play
Meter, August I, p . 12) wit h great guys
like Tho mas Jackson p ro tecti ng the
wo rld fr o m evil, k ids don 't need paren-
ta l guidance, just Mr. J ack son .
Arleen Goodman
Nashville, Tennessee
rea l sk ill a nd perscverc nce. We wou ld . - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.....
like t o sec mo re video-p in ba ll co m-
Something on your mind you want to
binatio ns such as Gottli eb 's Ca veman vent? Got a gripe? Full of praise.' Ha ve a
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Long live pinball!
In respo nse to Bill Bro ha ugh's a rt icle
t itled .. Is There a G limmer of Ho pe for
Pinba ll?" (Ju ly 15, 1983. p. 48), Stan
H a r r i ~ & Co. Inc. o f Ph ilade lp hia
who lehearted ly agrees wi th his p lea.
Manufactu rers m ust co ntinu e t o pro-
du ce pi n ball mac hines a nd kee p the m
in t he public eye.
When o pe ra ted and ma inta ined
prope rly, these nipper games have
mo re stay in g power, both in invest-
ment return and overa ll entertainme nt
value, than those fe w vid eo ga mes th a t
have been s uccessfu l. T h e hundreds o f
video ga me failures a re a lmost too
pa in fu l to discuss.
I a m a ma 7ed whenever I s pea k to
o pe ra to rs aro und th e cou ntry wh o'
lament t heir a lmost no n-existent pin-
ba ll mar ket. In the Mid -A tla ntic reg io n
of the Un ited Sta tes, ou~ pin ba ll
players a rc very much a live. Pinball
m a c hin e~ co ns titute appro xima te ly 35
perce nt of our to ta l ga m e placeme nts,
45 pe rcent of o ur game d o lla r volume .
and actu a lly o utea rn the videos al o ng-
~ i de t hem a lm o~ t o ne-third o f the time.
H owever. successful o pe rati on and
good mainte na nce is a bso lute ly vital.
Wit h some o f the newer ty pes (e .g.
co mbina t io n video- pinball). it tak es
ptA Y
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