Play Meter

Letters to
the editor • • •
What's in a name?
I d o thank you for your prompt letter
indicating that Fun & Games Ltd. of
Granite City, Illinois, is not the Fun &
Games that you had reference to in your
article on page 74 of the Play Meter issue of
May I, 1982.
Fun & Games Ltd . is a distributor of
Elcon Industries Inc., convertible equip-
ment only. We do not attempt to sell cus-
tomers equipment' where we can not service
the account. We are not a "road show"type
of company .
We have service technicians that make
on site repairs to the equipment that we sell
to our customers, thus we are limited in the
area we may sell equipment , as travel to
distant cities is not profitable nor possible
for us.
We do the best we can not to have any
customers dissatisfied with our firm, and
thus far we have succeeded .
B. L. Bradley
President
Granite City, Illinois
[Ed. reply: The Fun & Games spoken of in
our issue of May I is now defunct. We have
received no similar complaints against any
of the other many firms across the country
which bear that name.]
Richards ' injunc tion noted
I have read wit h interest in your edition
of March 15, the article you wrote regard-
ing the ATE and the American visitors'
viewpoints .
Throughout this article you draw to
everyone's attention the success or other-
wise of booths DL9 and 10, namely Com-
petitive Video and John Richards, and you
quote him extremely freely throughout ,
even suggesting that he was producing
reproductions of Qix, a Taito game. You
also draw attention to the sort of poster
PLAY METER, June 15, 1982
that he displays.
It is a pity that the situation did not
allow your research to find out what the
attitude of major manufacturers in the UK
was on this subject. You must be well
aware of the efforts and successes currently
being achieved by Vic Leslie on behalf of
Sega in the protection of their games in the
UK . Mr. John Richards was served with an
injunction by my company during the last
day of the ATE and was forced to remove
any suggestion that he could offer Qix
conversions. That injunction has since
been upheld and a lifetime ban placed on
his attempts to provide Qix, resulting in
the gentleman in question now applyirig to
us to purchase authentic goods and
become a licensed converter of old
machinery into updated Qix machinery,
which would rather, in my humble opinion,
discredit the ad poster that you highlighted.
David B. Coren
Managing Director
Talto Electronics
London
[Ed. Note: I read with interest y our leiter
of April 23 and want to point out that the
situation at the A TE did allow me to find
out the altitude of the major game manu-
facturers on the game copying problem.
Obviously, the major game manufacturers
are, as y ou say, trying to do something
about the problem - althougH factory
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