Atari Coin Connection

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"This game used to be great, but now
it's yuckie." This was tl1e comment of a
frustrated player about a pinball game
that was poorly maintained. We were at
the local skating rink and tried to play
the ga1nes, but the play fields of the
pin ball games were so dirty you could
hardly see the artwork; the ball sho_oter
barely bunted the ball onto the playf1eld;
the flippers were slow to flip, and the
bu1npers lacked bu1np. Players migl1t l?ut
in one coin to play while taking a skating
break but the games were in such bad
shape'. they certainly wouldn't play again .
This location has the potential for very
high collections, with l1undreds of peopl_e
passing by the games every week. It 1s
certain tl1at the inco1ne from these
parti,cular games could be two or three
tin1es higl1er. If they we re clean, they
would attract more players and would be
more fun to play again and again.
Pebble Beach (Continued)
The golf tourna1nent winners included
Claus Arrhens, tl1e Cherry Group, Eng-
land, and Mr. M. Nakamura of Atari
Japan, who both took first place, winning
golf club bags. John Gatens and Jerry
Becker won second place; Irving Green
and Arnold Kan1inkow took tl1ird in the
golf tourney. The low gross winner was
Bud Patton and higl1 gross winner of a
divot was Shane Breaks. The contest on
tl1e 18 hole putting green was won by Al
Hawkins.
The tennis events were divided into
tearns of 6 people. First place went to
Atari, Inc.
1265 Borregas Avenue
P.O. Box 9027
Sunnyvale, California 94086
ATARI®
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A warner Commun1cahons Company
Chuck Arnold, Jin1 Weatl1erhead, Shirley
Waldman and Anne Betti representing
distributors, and Curt Russell and Debbie
Spear of Atari. Each me1nbe_r of ~he
winnino I::> tean1 received tennis attire .
Those distributors on tl1e second and
tl1ird place winning tean1s were: Bob
Haim Al Betteln1an, Maurice Cardinale,
Lind; Breaks, Cl1et McMurdie, Barbara
Gordon Jeanette Galante and Ed Miller.
Lou 'Sinoer
of Central Distributing,
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01nal1a, said, "We enjoyed the meeting
very mucl1. It is a delightful place. The
program and activities were superb. I~ was
much 1nore personal than otl1er business
meetings, which made it even better."
Harriet Singer, his lovely wife, added,
"Everything was just great!"
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Ira Bette/man and Ray Galante prepare for the
serve in the tennis tournament.
Service Schools (Continued)
covered to help the1n service Atari
equipment. "We learned much abo~t l1ow
to find the problems and repair the
games. We appreciated the informative
sessions without any hard-sell of
product," noted several operators .
The Atari representatives discussed the
new test equip1nent for solid state games
that will be available in the near future to
further assist in technical troubleshooting
on location. Tl1ey demonstrated the tools
and techniques for pinpointing problerns
and repairing the pinball and video games.
FUTURE SERVICE SCHOOLS:
Service schools are presently being
schedule d for late April and May through
the following Atari distributors:
Music Vend Distributing Co .
Seattle, Washington - May 8 & 9
Dunis Distributing Co.
Portland, Oregon - May l O & 11
Empire Distributing Co.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Belam Florida Corp., Miami, Florida
For further in formation on these or other
service schools to be held, please contact
the Atari distributor in your area, or call
Fred McCord at 800-538-6892, or witl1in
California call ( 408) 984-1900.
Publisher - Atari, Inc.
Editor - Carol Kantor
Art Director - Evelyn Lim
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