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ASSETS OF MVLST AR/GOTILIEB
PURCHASED IN JOINT VENTURE
Premier Technology Company
has bought certain equipment and
parts of the discontinued Mylstar/
Gottlieb pinball product line through
a joint venture of several unnamed
companies. Gil Pollack, former vice
president of marketing for Mylstar
will assume the managing of the
new company.
Parent company Columbia Pic-
tures (owned by Coca-Cola) an-
nounced it was closing Mylstar
effective September 30. Only hours
before opening day of the recent
AMOA in Chicago (October 24-27),
papers were signed for the Premier
purchase of the Mylstar/Gottlieb
assets. However, the name Gottlieb
was not available. Pollack said the
name Premier was chosen because,
"I have always looked upon Gottlieb
pins as the premier product in the
industry."
Premier Technology is in the
process of moving its operations to
759 Industrial Drive, Bensenville,
Illinois. Lenore Sayers, regional sales
manager for Mylstar will become
the national sales manager for
Premier Technology, responsible
for all domestic sales. She will
remain in Los Angeles for the pre-
sent time. Pollack said a number of
previous Mylstar/ Gottlieb engi-
neering and manufacturing per-
sonnel will remain with Premier.
Premier will be responsible for
full service and parts for past
Gottlieb games.
Premier Technology exhibited
two pins, ElDorado and Touchdown ,
at the AMOA, and those games will
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bear the Gottlieb name. Future
games, however, will have Premier's
name but will be made with the
same reliable Gottlieb parts and
electronics .
"We were pleased with the
verbal and hard orders we received
at the show," Pollack said. "All
details are not yet worked out about
the distributor network, but most
Mylstar/ Gottlieb distributors will
carry the Premier line."
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P AMMA VS. LCB
The Pennsylvania Amusement
and Music Machine Association
(PAMMA) has gone to court against
the Pennsylvania Liquor Control
Board (LCB) over the operation of
video card games in the state.
PAMMA is trying to stop the
state board from enforcing a recent
threat it made against operators of
the machines. PAMMA sought an
immediate restraining order against
the state liquor control board, but
the Commonwealth Court denied
PAMMA's request, though it did set
a November 1 date for a hearing on
a temporary injunction against the
liquor control board.
On October 24, the state liquor
control board told PAMMA 's coun-
sel that the LCB enforcement agents
would enforce the law in accordance
with strict guidelines . PAMMA
argued that it was unable to obtain a
copy of those guidelines. The, LCB
allegedly said it would use discretion
in enforcing the law and that it
would not act outside of its interpre-
tation of a recent state supreme
court ruling concerning two elec-
tronit poker game machines.
That meeting between PAMMA
counsel and members of the LCB
was one day after PAMMA delivered
a letter to Dania I Pennick, chairman
of the liquor control board, asking
the board to postpone its threatened
enforcement action for thirty days
so that PAMMA could concentrate
its legislative efforts on passing a
Video Poker Control Act.
When PAMMA failed to win that
concession, the state association
filed its f etition for review in
Commonwealth Court. The legal
action PAMMA seeks is that the
state liquor control board be
restrained from citing licensees for
processing electronic video poker
machines unless there's proof that
the machines are possessed illegally.
The P AMMA petition also asks that
the court make a judicial determi-
nation of the propriety of the LCB's
sweeping enforcement pronounce-
ment.
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PLAY METER. December 31, 1984