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Entertainment System
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A Unique New Form of Musical Entertainment
Now you can delight and fascinate your
guests with the fabulous 51 GALONG ••
Entertainment System which plays their
favorite music and lets them sing along by
displaying the lyrics of each song in time with
the music. This revolutionary development in
club entertainment combines the famous
PJANOCORDER reproducing system with
our versatile new SUPERSCAN'" display con·
sole. an electronic screen composed of solid
stale light emitting diodes (LED's).
Using factory encoded tape cartridges, the
SINGALONG system operates the piano keys
and pedals, producing an amazingly lifelike
performance, while the song lyrics dance
across the screen. Each song is programmed
with its own dazzling light and motion effects
to delight your guests. Our long playing car-
tridges contain about 67 old and new favorites
each, and additional tapes are available from
our extensive Pianocorder tape library. giving
you an almost limitless supply of music.
We11 also, program into your system an
advertising message of up to 200 words which
will be displayed on the screen continually while
the SINGALO G mechanism isn't playing.
The SING ALONG system is available in
both coin-op and free-play models, installed in
our handsome Ragtime Piano. It can al o be in·
stalled in any other piano quickly and easily,
without impairing the piano's structural in·
tegrity or tone. The SUPERSCAN console can
be placed anywhere, in single or multiple unit
displays, and it can be used independently of
the system as one of the most versatile user
programmed message centers on the market.
The SINGALONG system is virtually
service-free; in the unlikely event that you
ever have a problem with it, help is as near as
your phone. If there's trouble with the con·
sole, simply ship it back and we'll send you a
replacement while yours is being repaired.
The MARANTZ SINGALONG system is
unique in club entertainment. It will captivate
your patrons play after play, night after night,
at a substantial savings to you in entertain·
ment costs. And because it's self operating. all
you have to do is change tapes.
It 'll pay YOU to take a look at the
MARANTZ SING ALONG entertainment
system . Call us toll-free at 1-800-438-7023 for
more information.
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p . .) for the third time and alii can do
i hake m y head from ide to ide in
amazement and no little anger. Mr.
Boasberg eem to me to be talking
down to hi fellow operator and di -
tributor a people unable to think for
our elve about a real problem that
face u , name I the home video game .
Hi compari on of our problem to
"TV v . the mo ie " i lightly erro-
neous, in that it doe not full explore
the whole picture . ( o pun implied.}
TV , cable, and HBO , I agree , have
not killed the new exciting movie like
"E. T.," "Toot ie," "The erdict," etc.
ing the few hit movie a an example
i like comparing M . Pac-Man with a
bad game. Who doe not remember
the a t number of thea ter that went
out of exi ten e? You can afel wager
that theater owner did not welcome
T with open arm .
I do agree with Mr. Boa berg that
there i nothing like pia ing a real live
ideo game in an arcade or location.
We actuall be orne the howroom for
the manufacturer . Howe er, the
manufacturer ha e got to con ider
the con equence of their hort ighted
policy of no ding the market with
home video game at the ver arne
time the are elling to the di tributor,
operator. and arcade people .
If we don't ur ive. they will no
longer ha e their local howroom . I
wa dumbfounded a hort while ago
when on m TV creen came tari'
commercial ad erti ing the home
ideo Pole Po ition.·and I had not yet
recei ed my coin-operated si t-down
model.
The home ideo pia er. with all of
hi practice n the current game, pia
for a longer period of time than the
a erage pia er. We are therefore
taking in le quarter per hour. and it
i killing a current game.
I can't remain ilent hen I read
omething that i threatening our
bu ines . namely complacenc , or
wor e. welcoming our wor t competi-
tor a bu ine companion . If we all
think like thi . we ha e nothing to fear
but Chapter II .
I think the manufacturer owe u
omething. There hould be a reason-
able lag time between a current game
a nd the arne game for home ideo.
We certainly need e clu i e time to try
to get our large t co t factor back .
I think if enough of u make our
feeling felt. we can make a difference.
a Ia the Pac-Man peed-up kit .
a muel Gaffin
Ma nager
Marty's P lay la nd
Ocean Cit y, Maryla nd
PLAY MITER. August 1. 1 98~