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McKenna. and APMA technical advi-
sory committee chairman Ray Musci
of Data East USA. Inc .. covers all
aspects of the identification process
from shipping documents to the PCBs'
electronic circuitry.
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Status Game appoints
exclusive UK distributor
Status Game Corporat ion of
Newington. Connecticut. has appointed
P.C.M. Ltd .. a subsidiary of Whitbread
Inns. as exclusive distributor for its Triv-
Quiz game in the United Kingdom . To
obtain the distributorship. P.C.M. has
placed initial orders for game units
exceeding S I million.
"This is the largest single order in
our company's history." said Irving
Yaffa . Status president. " We are
gratified to work with a company as
highly regarded as Whitbread. and
we look forward to a continuing.
rewarding relationship." he added.
Whitbread Inns. one of the largest
breweries in the United Kingdom.
operates approximately 7.000 pubs.
The game. which Status programmed
with questions specifically lor the
British market. will be updated every
eight weeks with new question kits.
Yatla said.
Triv-Quiz is now being made avail-
able to the home computer market.
Yaffa added.
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Rock-Ola jukebox filmed
for "American Treaswy"
CBS News visited the U.S. Copyright
Office Ucensing Division August I 4 to
film the I 948 Rock-Oia jukebox cur-
rently on exhibit in the division for a
segment of the new "American Trea-
sury'' series.
According to Nancy McGovern
and Steve Kaufman. assistant pro-
ducers. the spot containing the juke-
box footage is scheduled to air
December 26. I 985. at 3:58 p.m.
The M odel I 428 Magic-Glo phono-
graph filmed for the series was manu-
fadured in I 948 by the Rock-Oia
Manulacturing Corp. II was donated
to the Ubrary o f Congress October 27.
I 984. by David C. Rockola. founder
and chairman of the board. on behall
of the Amusement and Music Opera-
tors Association and National Sound
Industries of M ex ico.
The "American Treasury" series
consists o f approximately I 00 different
one-minute informationa l broadcasts
fo r young viewers for the CBS Televi-
sion Network's I 985-86 season.
The televised segments focus on
interesting and unusual fads about
people. places. and events in real life
and fiction with each segment based
on materials and information found in
the Ubrary of Congress.
Popular personalities familiar to
the young audience from the worlds of
music. film. sp orts. television. and the
theater will be the narrators of "Ameri-
can Treasury." To date. they include
Olympic boxing champion Mark
Breland. Olympic champion skater
Scott Hamilton. act resses Stephanie
M ills and Ann Reinking. and model
Cheryl Tiegs.
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Sente to produce
U.K. trivia version
Bally Sente o f Sunnyvale. Califor-
nia . has negotiated with Trivial
Pursuit's merchandisers to develop a
British video game version of this
newest edition based on the Genus I
game.
Bally Sente is a software design.
research and development subsidiary
of Bally Manulac turing Corporation.
Chicago.
"We alone are authorized to use
the exact questions and answers from
the board game." explained Bernard
Powers. director o f marketing and
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"The video game's successful earn-
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buted to both the distinctness and
familiarity of these questions."
No announcements w ere made to
con v ert Genus II. Baby Boomers.
Young Players. All-Star Sports. or Silver
Screen to British board or video
games.
In the arcade version of Trivial
Pursuit. the player chooses one of four
characters-Baron v on Rightoften.
Cleofactra . Smartacus. and Billy
Genius. The die rolls au!omalically.
and the character moves that number
of squares on a rectangular game
grid. A question appears. and four
successive answer choices follow.
After each question. the player
must hit a button indicating w hether
the answer is right or wrong Points are
earned on the number o f c orrect
responses.
When a player answ ers one o f the
four comer questions correctly. there's
a chance to earn a piece of the pie
and bonus points. The monitor switches
to a theater-like setting. and the
playing character strolls across the
center stage to face a challenging
new question. Four choices again
app ear and correct responses earn
higher point scores. If all four pieces of
pie are earned before the lime runs
out.the player is awarded a bonus and
listed on the high score table.
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AAMA opposes
tax reform measures
The American Amusement Machine
Association ( APMA ) has contacted
the chairmen of the Congressional
tax-writing committees to voice the
industry's opposition to several tax
reform proposals now under consider-
ation.
In a letter to Senate Finance Com-
mittee chairman Bob Packwood ( R-
Oregon) and House Ways and Means
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