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CONTENTS/ Volume 10. Number 23/December 15. 1984
FEATURES
Special Year in Review Section
Even Orwell Couldn't Predict How Dod It Was .... 20
1984 was not a year to write home about in the coin-op amusement business,
but the editors hove compiled a yearlong summary of industry events for those
with the morbid sense of re-reading all the gory details about the year tne video
boom turned to bust.
Guide to Play Mettn 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
A complete index to all feature stories. news articles. regular departments, and
product introductions appearing in the pages of Play Meter during the post year.
Every Which Way Dut Up . ....................... 09
Correspondent Roger C. Sharpe tokes on overview at the year's uneven
introduction of new equipment and draws some conclusions about the industry's
direction in 1985.
The Economics of Leasing Vehicles
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Correspondent Joseph Arkin explores the feasibility of operators leasing their com-
pony vehicles.
Cigarette Vending, Minors, and the Role of NAMA
52
The ubiquitous decal forbidding the sole of ciogrettes to minors was the work of the
notional vending association (N.A.M.A.).
DEPARTMENTS
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Up Front
Letters to the Editor
News
National Play Meter
Coinman Interview
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Tax Tips
Frank's Cranks
New Products
Aids to the Trade
Classified Advertising
Cover Design: by Morgret Vincent. If one con tell the future by examining the post.
then this "Year in Review" Issue should serve as the industry's astrological guide to
1985 and thereafter.