Play Meter

video converters welcome
It is with interest and some mild degree of surpirse that we report to you
this month about the emergence of the video cocktail table as one of the
most popular forms of coin-operated entertainment in America today.
In researching and writing the story, for example, we learned that the
reluctance of "conventional" operators and distributors to accept the
cocktail table game has brought "new blood" into the industry - new blood
which some argue helps the industry and some argue hurts the industry.
But there still remains to a large extent the problem of resistance to the
concept from operators and distributors who still point angrily to their
warehouses, stockrooms and garages littered with the long-cold ashes of the
upright video tennis type games whenever a cocktail table representative
approaches them.
"Why can't you give me something to make that thing pay again?" they
point at the cobwebby uprights. We agree. Why can't manufacturers provide
operators with techniques, kits or the actual services to convert the
now-useless uprights into money-making machines once again?
A couple of companies, in fact, have done exactly that. They provide
conversion kits or will convert the games themselves. We commend them for
their efforts and hope they will be able to alleviate to some extent the
frustration and anger long-felt by operators and distributors toward the
upright video tennis-type game.
7