Atari Coin Connection

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NEW IMPROVED:
MIDDLE EARTH™
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The new and unique Fire Truck TM
will add profits to your location.
Fire Truck is the first driving game
that features exciting teamwork
and cooperation of the players as
they maneuver the realistic hook
and ladder fire truck through city
streets and race to the fire . For a
complete description of Fire Truck,
refer to the May issue of the Coin
Connection. This game is sure to be
a major attraction. See Fire Truck
today at your local Atari distrib-
utor's showroom.
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FIRE TRUCK™
NOW AVAILABLE
Extensive field testing of Atari's
MIDDLE EARTHTM pinball game
has provided direction for many
improvements that have been in-
cluded in the games now in produc-
tion. Not only has the earnings po-
tential of Middle Earth proven to be
one of the highest on the market
today, the serviceability and reli-
ability have been further developed
and improved significantly.
Some of the new features now in-
cluded on this dynamic pinball
from Atari include the following:
• New linear flippers with re-
placeable coils and reinforced
flipper buttons are designed
and tested for longer life.
• An improved hold down bar
that goes on and off for easy
serviceability.
• New discrete match credit and
score boards.
• New snaplock method of
mounting the printed circuit
board eliminates the springs
and problems caused by vibra-
tion.
• New multiple drop targets
have been tested to over
1,000,000 cycles without fail-
ure.
• New wireforms behind the
slingshots will minimize ball
trapping.
• New coin switch and actuator
wire will eliminate possible
faulty coining of free plays.
• New mini posts designed for
high resistance to breakage.
• Spinning targets have been re-
designed to alleviate sticking .
• Modified star rollovers mini -
mize sticking.
In addition to all of these new
features, Middle Earth comes with
a new complete illustrated parts
Atari has developed a portable
ROM/RAM Test Unit for simplified
troubleshooting in the field or in
the service shop. This unit mea-
sures only 9" x 6" x 1 1/2" and can
be easily set up on location. It will
be an extremely useful aid to tech-
nicians to quickly pinpoint prob-
lem areas on Atari games.
The ROM/RAM Tester can be used
on the majority of Atari's micro-
processor pinball and video games .
It can save many hours of trouble-
shooting time by enabling a tech-
nician to test the ROMs and RAMs
on a PC board in just a few minutes.
The tester can also be easily used to
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ATARI TEST UNIT
AVAILABLE