Play Meter
Issue: 1980 May 15 - Vol 6 Num 9 - Page 3
Volume 6, Number 9
May 15, 1980
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Staff
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Token Play ..................................... . . 22
Publisher and Editor:
Ralph C. Lally II
Editorial Director:
Managing Editor Ray Tilley investigates the reasons for
switching over to token play at your arcade.
David Pierson
Managing Editor:
Ray E. Tilley
International Editor:
David Snook
Editor, Coin Slot
Testing Games on Location .............. . ........ 28
A spotlight on Mother's Pinball outside Chicago . Writer
Tony Licata tells what sets this arcade off from others .
Technical Editors:
Zac Oliver
Randy Fromm
Jim Calore
Correspondents:
Roger C. Sharpe
Pat Matthews
Dick Welu
Charles C. Ross
Start out Right . .................................. 34
Arcade operator/writer J. W. Sedlak returns to PLAY
METER's pages with this informative article on what to
consider before starting your arcade.
Art Director:
Katey Schwark
Administrative Assistant:
Valerie Cognevich
Circulation Manager:
Renee Pierson
Classified Advertising:
Va lerie Cognevich
Getting the Edge on Mall Locations . ............... 46
Editorial Director David Pierson has some suggestions on
how the enterprising operator may be able to wrest the
mall locations away from the exclusive grip of national
arcade operators.
Staff Illustrator:
Mars Walker
Advertising Manager:
David Pierson
European Representative:
Esmay Leslie
PLAY METER,
May 15, 1980.
Volume 6, No . 9 . Copyright 1980 by
Skybird Publishing Company. PLAY
METER ( ISSN 0162-1343) is pub-
lished twice monthly on the 1st and
15th of the month. Publishing
offices: 320 Old Hammond Highway,
Metairie, La. 70005, P. 0.
Box
24170, New Orleans 70184. Tel. 504/
838-8025. Subscription rates: U. S .
and Canada - $25; Europe and Japan
-$45; elsewhere-$50. Multiple-
subscription orders: 2-9, $20 each;
10-24, $17 each; 25 or more, $15
each. Advertising rates available on
request. No part of this magazine
may be reproduced without ex-
pressed permission. The editors are
not responsible for unsolicited manu-
scripts. Second-class postage paid at
Metairie 70009 and additional mailing
offices . Postmaster:
Send Form
3579 to PLAY METER, P.O. Box
24170, New Orleans, La. 70184.
PLAY METER
European office:
Promotions, "Harescombe" Watford
Road , Northwood Middx. England,
Northwood 29244.
PLAY METER, May, 1980
A Golf Link Can Be a Bonanza ..................... 55
Ray Tilley reports on a recent development with Putt-Putt
golf courses. It appears that a new location possibility is
opening up .
Mafia References, Kids Without Quarters, and All the
Other Joys of Being an Arcade Operator . .......... 84
Dick Welu shares with us the never-ending little pleasures
of running one of the key arcade operations in his
brother-i n-law Vito's Syndicate.
From the Editor ................................... 4
Mailbox ......................... . ............. . .. 7
Coin man of the Month . ............................ 8
Operating . ....................................... 18
Special When Lit ................ _ ................ 40
Distributing ...................................... 60
Equipment Poll . .................................. 71
Manufacturing . .................................. 72
Music ........................................... 76
Technical Topics . ................................ 88
Critic's Corner . .................................. 93
New Products . ................................... 97
Classified . ...................................... 101
News Briefs . .................................... 106
May 15, 1980
......................
Staff
II
Em
•••••••••••••••••••••••••
~LAY
Token Play ..................................... . . 22
Publisher and Editor:
Ralph C. Lally II
Editorial Director:
Managing Editor Ray Tilley investigates the reasons for
switching over to token play at your arcade.
David Pierson
Managing Editor:
Ray E. Tilley
International Editor:
David Snook
Editor, Coin Slot
Testing Games on Location .............. . ........ 28
A spotlight on Mother's Pinball outside Chicago . Writer
Tony Licata tells what sets this arcade off from others .
Technical Editors:
Zac Oliver
Randy Fromm
Jim Calore
Correspondents:
Roger C. Sharpe
Pat Matthews
Dick Welu
Charles C. Ross
Start out Right . .................................. 34
Arcade operator/writer J. W. Sedlak returns to PLAY
METER's pages with this informative article on what to
consider before starting your arcade.
Art Director:
Katey Schwark
Administrative Assistant:
Valerie Cognevich
Circulation Manager:
Renee Pierson
Classified Advertising:
Va lerie Cognevich
Getting the Edge on Mall Locations . ............... 46
Editorial Director David Pierson has some suggestions on
how the enterprising operator may be able to wrest the
mall locations away from the exclusive grip of national
arcade operators.
Staff Illustrator:
Mars Walker
Advertising Manager:
David Pierson
European Representative:
Esmay Leslie
PLAY METER,
May 15, 1980.
Volume 6, No . 9 . Copyright 1980 by
Skybird Publishing Company. PLAY
METER ( ISSN 0162-1343) is pub-
lished twice monthly on the 1st and
15th of the month. Publishing
offices: 320 Old Hammond Highway,
Metairie, La. 70005, P. 0.
Box
24170, New Orleans 70184. Tel. 504/
838-8025. Subscription rates: U. S .
and Canada - $25; Europe and Japan
-$45; elsewhere-$50. Multiple-
subscription orders: 2-9, $20 each;
10-24, $17 each; 25 or more, $15
each. Advertising rates available on
request. No part of this magazine
may be reproduced without ex-
pressed permission. The editors are
not responsible for unsolicited manu-
scripts. Second-class postage paid at
Metairie 70009 and additional mailing
offices . Postmaster:
Send Form
3579 to PLAY METER, P.O. Box
24170, New Orleans, La. 70184.
PLAY METER
European office:
Promotions, "Harescombe" Watford
Road , Northwood Middx. England,
Northwood 29244.
PLAY METER, May, 1980
A Golf Link Can Be a Bonanza ..................... 55
Ray Tilley reports on a recent development with Putt-Putt
golf courses. It appears that a new location possibility is
opening up .
Mafia References, Kids Without Quarters, and All the
Other Joys of Being an Arcade Operator . .......... 84
Dick Welu shares with us the never-ending little pleasures
of running one of the key arcade operations in his
brother-i n-law Vito's Syndicate.
From the Editor ................................... 4
Mailbox ......................... . ............. . .. 7
Coin man of the Month . ............................ 8
Operating . ....................................... 18
Special When Lit ................ _ ................ 40
Distributing ...................................... 60
Equipment Poll . .................................. 71
Manufacturing . .................................. 72
Music ........................................... 76
Technical Topics . ................................ 88
Critic's Corner . .................................. 93
New Products . ................................... 97
Classified . ...................................... 101
News Briefs . .................................... 106
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