Play Meter

IEWS BRIEFS
au Mille Shaw
There will be 180 exhibitors and an estimated 10,000 attendees at thi s year's Amusement and
Music Operators Association International Exposition in ew Orleans, according to AMOA Executive
Director Leo Droste . Droste said a few booths became available in September when Sega , which
recently sold its video game production rights to Bally, dropped out of the show. Those spaces were
quickly picked up, Droste said, by companies previously unable to secure space.
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The anticipated AMOA Exposition premiere of Nolan Bushnell's new video game concern , Sente
Technologies, has been delayed . An Atari suit delayed progress (Play Meter, June 1, p. 12), so Sente's
booth space at the New Orleans trade show will not contain any games .
Instead, Bushnell will premiere his new product at a distributor meeting December 9 at Sente's
Sunnyvale headquarters. (He will also present his distributor list at that time .)
According to a Sente spokesman , the firm's ' 83 production has already been promised to sister
firm , Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatres. " The general operating public," the spokesman said,
" will be able to buy Sente games as of January 1984."
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The new Cuine s Book of Records will , for the first time , include high video game scores
substantiated by Walter Day's Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard , another kudo for the Ottumwa ,
Iowa , arcade which has legitimized player scores as significant competit i ve accompli hments.
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ShowBiz Pizza Place 's new Showscan theatres will be featured in two European test units to be
built in England in the spring of 1984 under a franchising agreement with Imperial Leisure and
Retailing Ltd . of London . Showscan , developed by Hollywood producer Douglas Trumbull , is a motion
picture process in which high speed projection of 70 millimeter film on a giant cree n creates
enhanced realism, dimensionality, and clarity, and is designed to develop a sensatio n of involvement
for the viewer.
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Universal U.S.A. introduced its new conversion , Mr. Do ' Ca tie , to a September open house
attended ·by more than 200 people . The Santa Clara firm awarded several prizes to attendees including
a free trip to the AMOA to David Mace of Mace Leasing .
Williams Electronics has continued its diversification into the hotel and casino industry with its
acquisition of 80 percent ownership interest in the Condado Holiday Resort and Sand Casino in San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
Siggraph's 1983 two-day computer graphics conference will be held ovember 19-20 at the
California Institute of Technology in Pasadena . " Visual Dynamics: Showcase '83 " will explore
techniques and uses of computer graphics in animation, advertising, entertainment, freeform art, and
industrial design . Speakers include Atari 's Stephan Keith.
Billiard accessorres and supplies firm lnSport has been acquired by EBSCO Industries, parent of
the ational Billiard Manufacturing Company. lnSport Pre ident Gary Pepple wa retained as western
representative for ational Billiard and will be responsible for marketing products bearing the F. Grote
& Hubbell name.
PLAY METER. December 1. 1963