Sounding Off (I)
Taito Quality
Sounding Off (II)
Media Watch
Terry Royer
Royer Amusement & Vending Company
Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania
Evan Wessel
Mercury Amusement Company
Havertown, Pennsylvania
CONTROL PANELS
Taito needs to take a longer look at their
current games and make some much
needed improvements. The first Chase H.Q.
that I received worked for a day and a half
before the control panel fell out!
SUBJECT
Media Watch: A couple quotes from one of
the Coin-Op Industry trade publications.
The control panel is just glued and stapled to
the bottom of a drawer made of particle
board. There isn't anything to hold the top of
the panel from flexing during play. Anyone
should be able to look at that design and
realize that it wouldn't last on a game with a
steering wheel and a shifter!
STEERING ASSEMBLY
They had the same problems on Continental
Circuit. The steering assembly on Chase
H.Q. looks to be the same as in Continental
Circuit, which also had flexing problems.
I called Taito with a list of problems on
Continental Circuit. Included in these prob-
lems were the steering assembly and the
control panel. The service tech was aware of
all the problems. He transferred me to an
engineer. The engineer informed me that the
problems were being taken care of. He said
he would send me new steering parts for the
Continental Circuits and that the next game
would be better. This was months ago and I
still have not seen any parts.
QUALITY REQUEST
My game is going back to the distributor and
I will not be buying any additional Chase
H.Q. games. I also will not be purchasing any
new Taito games until the quality is im-
proved. I urge all operators to do the same.
,.. From Howie Rubin of Jaleco on his com-
pany's new kit, Legend Of Makat "Titi.s type
of game play does fantastic on home systems
and we feel it will do very well in coin-op."
Huh? What, do we come second now? I hope
I'm reading this the wrong way!
,.. From Nintendo's Vice President Alan
Stone about his company's dedication to ~'
coin-op: "We're going back to basics, doing
what we do best. And that means working
hard to give operators solid, technologically-
advanced game systems and an ongoing
staple of quality software. Exactly what they
need tostayprofitable. We'reallinittogether
for the long haul."
Hey, Are we talking about the Playchoice 10 I
5/Vs systems aka Nintendo Home
Entertainment System? Gosh, I should go
back and look at their system again so I can
better appreciate those technologically-ad-
vanced games and become more profitable!
This guy must have worked in government
or the "Tobacco Institute" to come up with
this!
I guess that I just find it hard to support
factories that manufacture for another mar-
ket which competes with mine...
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