Play Meter

Letters to
the editor • • •
tions which have used electron ic
games for teaching purposes, which
games they have used, and how they
have used them.
I understand that these lessons are
extracts from Kurz -Kasch 's
"Correspondence Course for
Electronics."
Since I am currently employed at
Taito Corporation as a tech writer, I
am interested to know more about
this course. So if you have brochures
on it, which gives the contents and
price of your course-! would
appreciate it very much if you can
arrange to have your people airmail a
copy to me.
Robert J. Coltrane
Director of Training
Pizza Time Theatre, In c.
1213 lnns bru c k Drive
Sunnyvale, California
[One of the more recent and thorough
articles on the educational ualue of the
games, Steuen Czetli's article "Coin·
Operated Instructiue Games," was
published in the December 15, 1980issue
of Play Meter. Copies of this and other
pieces, such as on the use of games by
the handicapped player, haue been
forwarded to the writer at Sunnyuale.
- ed.]
Satoshi Takeshita
Yokohama, Japan
[Due to many calls and letters from
operators and techs wanting missed
lessons of the Kurz -Kasch series, Play
Meter is preparing to reprint the Digital
Circuit Design Course at a near date.
That will be announced as the reprint is
auailable, and we will reproduce the
other printed portions of the series,
including the currently serialized I.C.
Logic Course, in the future with the
coo peration of Kurz -Kasch , the
copyright owner of the series.]
Educational
Clipped
The article, "Layman Gets Burned"
[Play Meter, September 1, page 41],
really hit a hot spot with me. I'm in
the same boat as this man is. I bought
six video machines last February;
this sounds so much like what I
bought..
The salesman sold me down a bed
of roses that turned into thorns.
Also, I hired so-called locations
(finders) for $175 each game. They
clipped me .. .I'm out $25,000 for dead
machines. I know of three other
parties (in similar situations).
Carol C. Herman
Lansing, Michigan
[We haue receiued too many calls
concering "disappearing salesmen" for
them to be coincidental stories of tao·
high sales prices for too-low quality
games. Play Meter is preparing an
inuestigatiue report into the widespread
blue-suede shoes "smoot hies. "- ed.)
Reprintable
I would like to know whether your
magazine has printed any articles on
the educational value of electronic
games. I am looking for specific
information regarding any organiza-
Something on your mind you want to
uent? Got a gripe? Full of praise? Haue a
question? If you haue comments on the
coin operated entertainment industry,
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PLAY METER, December 1, 1981
Recently, I had the pleasure of
reading the series in "Technical
Topics" (Play Meter, June 1, 1981
issue) which gives lessons on
Transistor Circuits.
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