Leisure Play

Bigger Shows
for Milan
Dublin
and
Milan
People wishing
show are advised to
advance. Once the
there is not a hotel
found in the
surrounding area.
to visit the
book well in
Fair starts
room to be
city
or
the
|
Dublin Coin Op show will be
Fair will be held, as
always, from April 14th to 23rd.
This is a large general trade fair
with a very important section for
automatics. Last year this section
was moved tc a new hall with
much more space available and
about 50 firms participated.
There will probably be more firms
taking part this year.
The automatics section at
this show is very international in
character and attracts visitors
from all over Europe and from
further afield.
All the large Italian
manufacturing firms participate
as well as producers of novelties.
bigger and better than last year,
says Mr. Fraser Pelley, the
Exhibition Director for the firm
which organises the show.
Support has been excellent
and a number of firms from the
UK and Ireland who were absent
last year — the Irish Amusement
trade's first show — will be
taking part this year. The show
will be held from April 29th to
May 1st at the Leopardstown
Exhibition Centre.
The dinner and dance, which
was such an enjoyable event last
year, will be held this year at the
Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dublin.
JOINT VENTURE ON
VIDEO FOR GREENMARK
& MAYFIELD DIAMOND
STERN
ANNOUNCE
"THE END"!
The latest video game from
Stern Electronics, Chicago — THE
END — is a one or two playe
solid-state game, launched last
month. It will be distributed in the
UK by London Coin Machines Ltd.
The Cocktail table model is to be
followed by production of an
upright model.
THE END, already voted
popular in selected test markets,
|
features explosive non-stop
play/action. In the Stern tradition,
the artwork is of bold, striking
design — colourfully dramatising
the game theme of cosmic
warfare.
THE END challenges the
player to defend against an on-
screen invasion of aliens,
programmed to attack and
dismantle the players defence
base. Object of the game is for the
player to shoot down attacking
aliens before they transport
defence base units to the top of
the screen and spell out E-N-D.
Two firms — one based in
London
and the other in
Lancashire — are to co-operate in
the production and sale of video
games.
They are Greenmark Ltd.,
of Kentish Town Road, London
and
Diamond
Mayfield
Annes, Lancashire. Gordon
Electronics Ltd., of Lytham St.
Marks, Managing Director of
Greenmark and Eddie Carter, his
opposite number at Mayfield
Diamond, reached agreement
recently.
Gordon Marks and his
colleagues will concentrate on
buying kits for games they
consider will be popular and the
games will be assembled at
Mayfield Diamond.
The Lytham St. Annes
company will also design and
manufacture the cabinets for all
the games.
Both companies attach great-
importance to an efficient-spares
service and they claim their
spares return service will be the
fastest in the UK. On this side of
the business Greenmark will
cover the London area and the
South of England and Mayfield
Diamond will look after the North
of England and Scotland.
Page
Sixty
features rousing
explosive
warfare sound effects. Among
innovative scoring features are:
* Player
may score double by
THE
game
e
Gordon Marks.
To
start the join venture the
two companies are offering"’Moon
Cresta, Puckman and Firebird.
These will be available in an
upright full-size cabinet and a
mini cabinet and were shown at
the recent Blackpool exhibition.
Greenmark and Mayfield
Diamond are already looking for
suitable distributors in European
countries.
END
starter and
destroying
aliens
that are
transporting defence base units.
* Player
may counter attack
and dismantle units from the
E-N-D formation by destroying
aliens during the third invasion.
* Ten highest
scores to date
are registered on screen.
* Everyy
players’ final score
is displayed for comparison
against highest to date.
Leisure Play
—
March
|