Play Meter

Letters to
the editor • • •
Thoughtful queries
We're rather new in the business and
would like some enlightenment-
!. Why is the industry always on
the defensive?
2. Why does a business that in
many game rooms does not permit
drinking even a Coke or smoking a
cigarette pay so many license fees
and is so controlled?
3. What qualities does it take to
be an outstanding game player?
4. Does playing video games
develop abilities toward success in
any other endeavor? Is it edu·
cational?
5. How long would it take an
eight-year-old who plays a game for 2
hours for a quarter to become an air
traffic controller? Two weeks or
less?
articles for you-none of which I
ever eventually posted because I felt
that they were not good enough. All
of them were to do with lack of
serviceability, unreliability, and
modifications which we've made to
our many machines over 14 years.
Thankfully you now have Frank
Seninsky to cover that gap, and I
hope that you continue with this
section. One aspect which I would
like to see you continue is the short
notes which you used to have in the
past, detailing common faults on
games; e.g. screech on Super Bug
Drag Race. I keep a file of all these
jottings and you can imagine how
useful that file has been over the
years.
Maybe I will one day blossom into
print finally, with an article for you,
possibly detailing some of the hassles
with being an operator in this little
island, south of the main world;
everything we buy comes in by air-
freight (the freight companies love
us, when we pay our bills!) because
the waterborne services are too
susceptible to the Australian
penchant for going on strike.
In the mean time, keep up the
good work on an excellent
magazine.
Erwin H. Boot
A uto m a tic M usic Co. ·
H obart, Tasm ania
' Timely editoria l'
O n behalf of our company, Aladdin's
Castle, Inc. and myself, we would
like to thank you for your timely
editorial, Up F rant, Play Meter,
September 15, 1981.
Myrel A. Gordon
Vice P reside n t/ Leasing
Aladdin's Castle, Inc.
C h icago, Illinois
[Ed. Note: The editorial referred to the
case pending before the U.S. Supreme
court, in which Aladdin's Castle
contests a Texas municipality's
ordinace banning children under 18 from
playing games in an arcade.]
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[Ed. Note : To questions 1 and 2 above,
we would reply that it is the instinctual
posture of the operator to be on the
defensive. (Better to be cautious; see the
Guest Editorial, this issue.) In many
cases, the media have forced this
stance; but the operator can be on the
offensive in this area: see "The Idea
Bank," this issue. To questions 3 and 4,
we really don 't know, to question 5, it
takes 22 days, give or take, fifteen
minutes, for a video game player to
develop the skills necessary to be air
traffic controller.]
Far-south operator
We receive your excellent magazine
through the good office of George
Campbell in Brisbane- ! think he
has a batch air-freighted to his
company, and then he distributes
them here locally.
Over the years, I have (I think on 3
occasions) sat down in front of the
typewriter , as now, and penned
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