Star Tech Journal

Issue: 1993-December - Vol 15 Issue 10

December 1993
STAR*TECH Joumal
NAMCO
DATA EAST
CRACKYCRAB
To PAY
TICKET
WILLIAMS
DRIVE
ROYALTIES
Edward Romasko
Champions Amusement Ctr
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PROBLEM
Ticket meter on Namco Cracky
Crab is not turning.
SOLUTION
After having determined that
the meter is good, replace the
2N2222A transistor on the
ticket dispenser board.
~
DRIVE
On the Deltronics model D 1-4-
P-S ticket dispenser, this tran-
sistor drives the ticket meter.
MuRPHY S LAW
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Never argue with
a fool
-people might not
know the
diff ere nee.
Williams Electronics Games,
Inc. ("Williams"), Data East
USA, Inc. and Data East Pin-
ball, Inc. (jointly "Data East")
announced today that they
had settled two suits that Wil-
liams brought in the Federal
court in Chicago in 1992 and
1993 against the Data East
companies and Gary Stern
and Joseph Kaminkow.
Williams suits claimed that
the individuals induced the
infringement of certain Will-
iams patents and that Data
East infringed such patents
and certain trademarks, en-
gaged in false advertising, and
violated a prior settlement
agreement with Williams.
Data East and said individu-
als have denied these allega-
tions and any wrong doing. As
part of the settlement, Data
East agreed to license from
Williams the patents and
trademarks which were the
subject of the litigation and
pay royalties to Williams for
any use thereof; other details
of the settlement are confiden-
tial.
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December 1993
AMOA
VIDEO
GAME WINNERS
GAME
ATEXPo'93
MESSAGES
Game Award winners were announced on October 22 in
Anaheim, CA, at the awards show during AMOA Expo '93,
the association's international expo for the coin-op industry.
MosT PLAYED VmEo
GAMEAWARDS
SUBJECT
GAME
This is a message to all manu-
facturers, especially foreign
ones.
MOST PLAYED POOL TABLE:
Valley Cougar by the Valley
Co., Bay City, MI
(DEDICATED):
NBA Jam, Midway Manufac-
turing, Chicago
PROBLEM
MOST PLAYED JUKEBOX:
Rowe LaserStar CD 100 by
Rowe
International,
Whippany, NJ
MosT PLAYED PINBALL GAME:
Addams Family, Midway
Manufacturing
(Bally
Games), Chicago
MOST PLAYED REDEMPI'ION
GAME:
MOST PLAYED CONVERSION
Krr:
Mortal Kombat, Midway
Manufacturing, Chicago
Skill Crane by Grayhound
Electronics, Toms River, NJ
MOST POPULAR OTHER GAME:
MOST INNOVATIVE NEW
TECHNOLOGY:
Air Hockey by Dynamo Corp.,
Richland Hills, Texas
Virtua Racing, Sega Enter-
prises USA, San Jose, CA
NEW EQUIPMENT AWARD:
Mortal Kombat II by Midway
Manufacturing, Chicago
(This award was voted on-site
by operators.)
MOST PLAYED DART GAME:
Galaxy Darts, Arachnid, Rock-
ford, IL
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It is a nice thing and almost a
standard thing to put the anti-
drug abuse screen into a game:
"Winners Don't Use Drugs".
That's still fine nowadays ex~
cept that the director of th~ _
FBI is no longer William Ses-
sions. He was canned awhile
back. Don't you guys keep up
with current events?
SoLUTION
Putting the video message:
"Winners Don't Use Drugs"
without him as the FBI direc-
tor would be more accurate.
SUGGESTION
One thing I would like to see
instead of this recycling crap
messages video game manu-
facturers are starting to put
into the games, is what game
manufacturer Sente did some
years ago: They put pictures o~
missing children in the games.
Now that, in my opinion,
would serve a more worth-
while purpose .

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