December 1991
STAR*TECH Journal
Prince's Corner
Donald B. Prince
D&RMusic
Bozeman, Montana
Moving Out!
Operating Your Shop While On The Move
Well, it's another year ending, and in retrospect, it was a good year for the Coin-Operated Industry.
There's been growth in new technology, with the bit-map displays, solid state flippers
and 32 bit graphics. Some old technologies had a resurgence. Systems were upgraded
with the Neo•Geo system and the Sega Time Traveler system.
This leads to a big mess to sort out at the new
Video disks made a come back with Time Traveler
location.
and Dragons Lair II. Lots of dedicated spin-offs
from movies, TV, and the
The best plan is to start 2-4
weeks ahead of your deadline
comics with Terminator II,
The Simpsons, and Captain
departure date. Start by
America. All-in-all, more
packing all the non-essential
stock, leaving the day-to-day
games available this year
than any other year I can
things for that last weekend.
remember.
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Start by examining your
timetable for repairs, with
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consideration for packing
This month I'd like to talk
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time. From this information,
about the thing any operator
move all games that will not
hates most, Moving. Re-
get repaired until you reach your new destination
cently, I had the pleasure(?) of moving to a tempo-
- this includes cabinets for JAMMA games that are
rary location until another is ready to move into.
waiting for board repairs. You can link the two up
This monster task turned out to be a good lesson in
after you do the bench repair on your JAMMA
what is stock and what is pack-rat junk. I thought
I would give a few benefits of this experience.
bench.
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FIRST THINGS FIRST
THE HEAVY STUFF
The first task was to pack up all the junk from the
present location. Try to leave yourself time to get
out of the old location. Don't trytodoitall in the last
weekend of the month you occupy the old location.
Then move the bulky stuff your not likely to use:
Old boards, coin doors, spare backdoors, pinball
glass, skeleton games (cabinets waiting for game
conversions), and stock that won't be used before