Play Meter

Issue: 1985 November 15 - Vol 11 Num 21

Alleu cats
Williams Electronics , Inc ., offers
traditional pins or novel bottle -shaped
pins with its Alley Cats shuffle.
With cartoon graphics, the theme
af Alley Cats is animated with new
sound effects and speech. In addi-
tion to regulation, triple strike, strike-
90, and flash, the game offers super
strike, in which a strike earns 90 points
and activates the flash value for up to
800 points on the second shot.
Williams' shuffles offer front -door
accessibility for game adjustments,
diagnostics , and bookkeeping func -
tions .
For details see your Williams dis-
tributor or contact Williams Elec -
tronics , Inc ., 3401 N . California Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60618, or call (312) 267-"
2240.
PlAY METER. November 15. 1985
smart Darts
Arachnid , Inc ., has announced the
availability of Smart Darts , the home -
practice version of the company's
coin -operated darts game, English
Mark Darts .
The Smart Darts board has been
stomoln'
Bally Sente has introduced the
nation's first no-hands video game,
Stompin', and a new concept titled
Floorplay.
Part of the Sente System of inter-
changeable video games, Floorplay is
controlled by a player moving his
entire body, not simply his hands .
Players don't use their hands at all.
The game works with a pressure -
sensitive pad attached to the base of
the game cabinet. The pad synchro-
nizes player foot position and weight
to the action on the screen .
Stompin' is the first Floorplay
game. Players crush an armada of
critters, including mice , frogs , and
spiders , trying to descend on a food
item in the middle of the screen. A
player's success depends either on the
amount of food remaining at game's
end or on the number of critters
stomped .
For more information, write Bally
Sente , 10601 W . Belmont A ve. ,
Franklin Park , IL 60131, or call (312)
451 -9200 .
redesigned with interconnecting seg-
ments and a reinforced spider that
give it more solid construction. Smart
Darts games , being manufactured by
Arachnid's Custom Injection M olding
Division in Rockford, Ill. , also are now
available at a lower price . The
complete line of English Mark Darts
accessories also is available for use
with Smart Darts .
Smart Darts comes in a new dis -
play package complete with the Smart
Dart board , six darts , six replacement
tips , game rules, wall -mounting
instructions , and an accessories order
form.
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cas no nona
Capital Tel Systems, Inc ., is offer-
ing the Cashphone pay telephone
system.
Cashphone is updated by down-
loading the latest exchange and tariff
data over phone lines, enabling accu-
rate costing of every call. It features a
built -in microcomputer that can
access all 46,000 exchanges in the
U.S. , and through its central com-
puter system can make rate changes
in minutes. Cashphone can calculate
rates according to distance, time of
day, and length of phone conversa-
tion.
The phone's screen displays
operating instructions and allows for
advertising. It requests overtime
charges, counts down remaining time
for the last 30 seconds, and can accept
all major credit cards. A voice feature
requests coin deposit and additional
payment, if needed.
The phone has a Mars multi-coin
mechanism that rejects foreign coins
and slugs. Speed-dial buttons enable
the caller to order special local ser-
vices such as gas stations hotels
taxis, and airlines.
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Cashphone uses the American
Phone Meter Corp. software tech-
nology originally intended for the busi-
ness-phone market to display and
control phone costs. Capital Tel is the
exclusive distributor and marketing
and sales company for Cashphone.
For more information write
Capital Tel Systems, Inc ., 305 Fairfield
Ave., Fairfield, NJ 07006, or call (201)
882-0640.
ChODIIItar
Sega Enterprises, Inc ., has an-
nounced Choplifter, a new horizontal
game kit. Chop/ifter is a helicopter
seek-and-rescue game that combines
action and skill as players save cap-
tured troops in enemy territory.
Choplifter tests players' ability to
guide the helicopter through enemy
lines while battling fighter jets, ground
jeeps, enemy submarines, battleships,
hot lava caverns, and hostile city
buildings.
By rescuing captive forces and
returning them to base , players
advance to the game's next stage.
For more about Choplifter, con-
tact your Sega distributor or write
Sega Enterprises, Inc ., 2149 Paragon
Dr., San Jose , CA 95131 , or call (408)
435-0201.
PGD's Progressive Music Triuia is
available as a countertop or universal
P.C .B. kit. It offers categories of rock
and pop , country music , movie and
television themes, and mixed bag.
And it holds regular trivia test
questions . There are five or seven
questions a game, player's choice, and
bonus questions for correct answers.
The game can hold more than 12 000
questions .
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One kit fits all games and moni -
tors. Hori zontal , vertical monitor , and
table flip -flop all are software-adjust-
able on location and off. The kit
includes a complete printed circuit
board, assembly instructions, sche-
matics , new wiring-harness buttons, a
control-panel overlay, and a marquee
header.
· Operators can mix music and
regular trivia questions for up to nine
ca.tegories in the game at once . New
music categories are available each
month.
For more information, write PGD ,
1985 Friendship Dr. , Suite J , El Cajon ,
CA 92020, or call (619) 449-9010.
PLAY METER. November 15, 1985

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