Play Meter

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Twice o Month Publication for the Coin Operated Entertainment Industry
WBPA
Member Business Publications Audit
CONTENTS/volume 8, Number 23/December 1, 1982
FEATURES
Dig Time for 'Burger Time'?
35
Data East personnel ore excited over the prospects of their new interchangeable
game, 'Burger Time.' But Mary Claire Blakeman goes beyond the potential hit game
and examines the company's philosophy about its interchangeable products.
Declining Collections
40
Valerie Cognevich talks to o small sampling of operators to find out how their collec-
tions compare to lost year's toke. Finding: Operators collect less or if they toke in as
much money as they did in 1982, their escalating costs offset any profit.
S-T -1\-E-T -C-H
44
Dr. Jerome Sehulster talks to Mary Claire Blakeman about videos exercising mental
abilities-memory, learning, and recognition . He also discusses why some parents
fear videos.
DEPARTMENTS
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Up Front
Letters to the Editor
Equipment Poll
News
Our • cades
Puzzle Answers
64
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70
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86
Frank's Cranks
New Products
AJds to the Trade
Classified
Snapshots
Cover Credit: Atorl and Marriott's Great America developed the Atorl VIdeo
Adventure In Santo Claro, Collfomlo. However, Its games offer more than aesthetic
appeal . According to Dr. Jerome Sehulster's remo~s on page 44, games stretch
our mental abilities.