Play Meter

..... Game Plan , Inc ., was in negotiations with several com-
panies wanting to purchase interest in the pinball and slot
machine manufacturer in late July . One potential purchaser
corporation ' s board of directors was reportedly considering
an acquisition of Game Plan at this magazine ' s press time .
Game Plan general manager Wendell McAdams commented only that
federal rules governing public companies do not permit the names
of negotiating parties to be divulged before a joint agreement
between them is final .
( Game Plan is a subsidiary of AES Tech -
nology Systems , Inc . The current games from the Addison , Illi -
nois man u facturer are Pinball Lizard and the Tora - Tora air - naval
battle video .) ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. .. . Larry Siegel , administrative vice - president of Stern
Electronics , said that company would need some six weeks to move
the physical assets of Seeburg Corporation to Stern ' s Diversey
Street plant in Chicago . All p u rties were reported confident
that an arrangement for Stern to buy all Seeburg assets except
patents would be completed July 25 . As PLAY METER went to press ,
Stern officials wer e negotiating with some of Seeburg ' s creditors
to purchase " work in progress " on the floor of the Dayton Street
facility leased by XCOR International to Seeburg . Seeburg Corp .
filed bankruptcy proceedings in court October 19 , 1979 , and the
plant has been idl e si nce that time .
( For f uth er details of the
proposed Stern /Seeburg arrangement , see the Manufacturing sec -
tion of th i s issue .) Stern is committed , said Siegel , to hav ing
volume prod uction of j ukeboxes in full swing by late October .
Meanwhile , Stern had a second video game in the final stage of
development . Called Berserk , it involves a ma ze and chase format,
and it was bound fo r selected test locations in late July ........ .
. . . . . Th e strengt h - testing Punc hb all machine by Zamperla had a
supporting role in the Paramount movie " Urban Cowboy " starring
John Tra volta . In the Gilley ' s nightclub setting of the movie,
there is a Punchball competit i on . The game will also be s h own
on tele v ision 1n a new series on NBC , " The Games People Play " .
. . . . . Hans Rosenszweig , fo rmerly associated wi t h Lowen - Automa ten
of West Germany , was reported at mid - July to have purchased an
interest in Nova Apparate , Hamburg, and to be stepping into an
executive post wi t h t hat distributor . Rosenszweig i s a veteran
of the Swiss and Ge rman coin - op industry ...... . ............... .
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PLAY M ETER , September, 1980