Play Meter

Can you
dig it?
Transparent
music player
NSM's new Festival ES 160 phono-
graph features a showcase cabinet
which displays the record playing
mechanism . On request. the interior
light may be either dark blue or dark
red. The housing is also designed " to
offer no refuge for glasses . Where
there are no glasses to spill. there will
be fewer service problems ." states
the manufacturer.
Large digital display numbers on
the new N M machine show the
position of the record selected in the
Top Nin Hits for each particular
location .
A special servicing feature is a
PC -board that gives the collector an
automatic memory that will readout
at his operation's accounts office -
and each board can handle details
from sixteen phonographs.
The vertical playing mechanism
holds 0 records ( 160 selections). A
total of eight speakers form the stereo
system . Total music power is 150
watts. with two separate amplifiers .
Remote speaker terminal boards are
integrated in the control center.
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Celestial
watcher
Star Gazer. a four-player solid state
game scheduld for late -July release
was announced by Stern Electronics
a its n w "space -th emed " pinball
game .
Th e n w gam combin s the latest
pinball t chnology with a constella -
tion o f n w playfield f atures . Th
manufactur r announc d that its
attracti ons includ :
- Brilliantly -colored backglass art.
with vi ual features set in synch roni -
zation with "outer spac " sound
ff ct
- Being fir I in the gam s industry
with " loop -action return. " a new
d sign that sends the ball "in to orbit"
from the bottom o f th e playfield .
- " Add -a-ball" giving th player
up to fiv ex tra balls on a single play .
- even digit scoring of up to
9.999.999 points . High r scoring
cues th e xplosion of a sound and
light display and gives players an
extra ball fo r scoring maximum on
bonus.
- Target de ign o f twelv Zodiac
targets and thr e drop targets for
variabl bonus coring. plus three
spinning targets for variable value
coring .
Star Gazer was designed and
manufactur d by
tern's Universa l
R search Laboratories . Inc .
Gremlin Industries of
an Diego.
ali fornia has announc d the release
of its new . full -co lor Digger video
game to di tribu tors.
Gremlin Pr sid nt Frank Fogleman
aid Digger is designed for broad
player app al. H e explain ed. " What
s ts Digger apart from all oth r vid o
th at it do n't just test a
play r· p d and d ex t rity . Digger
al o I t you plan and try different
game trat gi .
o it challenges
your mind a well as your reflexes .
And that xtra challenge mean extra
profit pot ntial for operators ...
Digger play action take place in a
maze- like de rt canyon in which the
play r dig hoi s on th e cr en to
trap att acking creatu re . Points are
cor d wh n th e play r fills in hole
that hold trapp d creatur s.
Gr mlin'
xclu iv
MultiPh ase
maintain game inter st by in reasing
th e challeng as play r skills im -
prove . Th
playing fi ld hang s
aft r ach ucc ssful game phas -
and the number of enemy crea tures
increa
De ign d for on or two play rs.
Digger f atu re I n auth ntic game
sound and c lorful cabine t graphics .
PLAY METER. September, 1980