Star Tech Journal

April 1993
if the plane crashes on the return
flight you can burn this liquid to
keep warm ... ), a can of Honey-
Roasted Cashews, Frito-Lay Vin-
egar Chips, and Sharon's favor-
ite-the gigundo feedbag size of
Lay's Chips (best when eaten in
front of a late night tv ) ... (better
write this gourmet snack list
down for the next convention)
We tapped the night clerk for info
on the 24-hour food delivery res-
taurants and their favorite order-
ing spots, but never needed
them ... buffets abounded!
TUESDAY
We learned from PBS-TV that
mint sprigs or scent repels mice
(great household tip here, al-
though totally unrelated to the
topics at hand) ...
Buffet Day: Lunch at the Golden
Nugget (heavenly bread pud-
ding) and dinner at the Binion's
Horseshoe Seafood Buffet... to-
tally satisfying!
Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage,
11PM, for $72 a ticket, there cer-
tainly is a cast of four dozen danc-
ers and illusionists working hard
during their movie-length pre-
sentation, including a vanishing
elephant and five cute tiger cubs
plus the rest of the Mirage white
tiger gang and a couple of magi-
cians fresh from the Ed Sullivan
Show 25 years ago with facelifts
and good tans ... but more impor-
tantly, two drinks, a souvenier
program, lots of special effects, a
huge hydraulic medieval/futuris-
tic dragon, and a good Michael
Jackson custom theme song ...
WEDNESDAY
We learned from PBS-TV how to
make stained glass windows ... for
m
more info subscribe to Glass Pat-
terns Quarterly Magazine ...
It's Dolphin Day-time to visit our
650-lb. friends of the sea over at
the Mirage triple swimming
pools ... three bucks.
Distributor Sneak Preview
Evening: Time for a look and a
chance to play TWILIGHT ZONE
pinball and CREATURE FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON pinball...
Williams/Bally has done it
again with this attractive block-
buster pin pair ...
Buffet Time: Rio Casino's World
Buffet, with its international buf-
fets including the Amazon Grille,
outstanding!...
Later at 11:30PM, Cook E. Jarr
and the Krums, the best lounge
act in Vegas as voted four years in
a row by the local newspaper
readers, drew us to the Sahara
Casbar Lounge three nights in a
row ... kind of like a 55-year-old
Soupy Sales in glitter boots and
stuffed spandex pants who inter-
views and picks on his audience
and works them into the takeoff
songs with his cordless micro-
phone as he wanders beyond the
lounge into the casino ...
THURSDAY
Show floor opens today if you can
ever get out of bed ... Machine-O-
Matic won our personal "Best
Display of Show -Golden Beaver
Award" for their ceiling-busting
tall multi-column gumball dis-
play... these are the Beaver
gumball machine people ... P & H
Company, the Rope Light guys
getting honorable mention with
their sparkling columns instead
of the blinking floor whips of pre-
vious shows ...
STAR*TECH Journal
Restaurant Outing: You didn't
see these cheap conventioneers
arguing over the check after this
dinner at Y olie' s Brazillian Steak
House with ten courses ofsword-
carved shish-kabobbed steak
meats individually carved onto
your plate... Playmeter's Chris
"The Food Editor" Caire and
Carol "Want-ad" Lea (fax 504/
488-7083) wrestled the check
away from Bill "Red Baron"
Beckham (fax 419/841-6484) ...
Thanks!... Other friends grazing
included
"Tosh"
Mori ta
(Fillmore, inc., fax 011-81-6-845-
2510 for his Pcb list), Helmut
Astheimer (G & F Apparate-
Vertriebs GmbH, fax 011-61-31-
68-83-34 to contact him for major
import/export in W. Germany),
Leon Cauchois (Palisades
Amusements, Las Vegas, fax 702/
367-9987 for his used list) ...
Gambled with luck ... actually
walked away at +$245 from the
blackjack tables at the end of the
night!... Of course, $200 was re-
invested into the casino the next
night ... CookE.JarrNightAgain.
FRIDAY
Show Floor Open, hurry up and
walk the whole floor ... no b.s.'ing.
Jim Miskell, now at American
Sammy, featured Pastel Island
(collect the hearts 3-D cartoon
maze), Play Girls (Arkanoid style
with joystick) and Pocket Gal
(Pool Table Video) ...
Namco's Lucky and Wild, two
seat single steering wheel
sitdown driver with passenger,
each with a handgun ...
Irem's In The Hunt submarine
game ... R-Type goes for a swim? ...