Atari Coin Connection

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Atari's Game Room-
Recreational Therapy
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The Stanford Children's Hospital
has a mini game room of their own
with Atari's Breakout®, Super-
man™* pinball and Touch Me™.
They will soon be adding an
Asteroids T M to this collection,
thanks to the efforts of Michelle
London, Director of Recreation
Therapy at the hospital. Contribu-
tions to buy the game came from the
Woodside-Atherton Auxiliary and
from Willie Nelson, the popular
country singer. Asteroids was
chosen as the new game for the
l Letters to the Editor
Each month, Atari receives many
letters regarding the games we pro-
duce. We thought that you, the
operators and distributors, might
be interested in reading some of
these letters, to see what your
players are writing to us.
Beginning this month, there will
be a new Player's Response column
appearing in each issue of the Coin
Connection. In this column we will
reprint excerpts from some of the
letters we receive each month.
This month's letter is from Ms.
September Mirghanbari of Sabine
Pass, Texas, who has asked us for
help.
"About four months ago my hus-
band and I were taking a short
vacation from work. We had a
wonderful time. I baked in the sun
while my husband ventured off to a
game room. I was furious when he
returned four hours later and $24
shorter. Had he spent our money on
Atari, Inc.
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Sunnyvale, California 94086
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hospital's "rec room" after much
consideration on the part of the
hospital staff. They reviewed the
recommendations of the Atari
Marketing staff, but their decision
was to a large part based on the
reaction of the kids, who over-
whelmingly chose Asteroids as their
favorite game.
Atari is proud to have the oppor-
tunity to serve the community in
this way. Games can be more than
just fun when. they are used to
benefit a special program and
special kids like these.
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another woman, I ask you? He was
involved with someone named
Asteroids. What kind of name is
that for a woman?
I learned my lesson. I decided to
check her out for myself.
What an odd looking machine.
Could my mind and fingers take it?
After finally figuring out the game,
I walked out $22.50 less. What a
fabulous and exciting game!
After challenging the rocks and
ships every chance we get ($345.25
worth), we're ready for medical
help. Could you please tell me where
the nearest AA is lt):cated? No, we' re
not drunks. We £teed an Asteroids
Anonymous. HELP!"
If you or your players have any
comments or questions regarding
Atari games, please send them to
The Editor, The Coin Connection,
Atari Inc., 1215 Borregas Avenue,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Who knows?
You may see yourself in print!
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TECHNICAL TIP
Sit-Down
Missile
Command
Convergence
TM
Remember that the horizontal
yoke wires have been reversed.
When performing color convergence
outside the game, the right horizon-
tal adjustments affect the left side of
the screen and the left adjustments
affect the right side of the screen.
It is best to perform color ad-
justments with the monitor in the
game. Since the mirror will invert
the picture, the right and lert color
adjustment will correspond to the
mirror image.
New International
Distributors
Three new Atari international
distributors were recently an-
nounced. Effective October 23,
Amiro France and Salmon S.A. will
be Atari distributors in France. And
on November 9, Nova Apparate
Gmbh and Company will join Lowen
Automaten as an Atari distributor
in Germany.
Sue Elliott, International Sales
Manager, commented: "We are very
pleased to welcome these three
distributors to our international
distributor group. They will help to
keep our operators in France and
Germany up-to-date on all the latest
Atari games.' '
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