Star Tech Journal
Issue: 1986-April - Vol 8 Issue 2 - Page 1
SIAR1f IECHJOURNAL
THE TECHNICAL MONTHLY FOR THE AMUSEMENTS INDUSTRY
APRIL 1986
A look At ibe First ACJm SlOW
By John Batistic
Univid Test Systems
Cleveland, OH
The AQIB show that was held at the
Expocenter in downtown Chicago March 7th
through March 9th was well attended by
operators fran around the country. M::>st of
the exhibitors I spoke to were pleased by
the turnout.
AQIB presented an opportunity to see a lot
of new product that is coming down the
line. I will review some of the highlights
of the show for th:>se of you who were not
able to attend. There is not enough space
to cover every single item or to go into
the games too deep, so I will just give a
brief mention of what I consider
important.
Atari showed a three player driving game
called SUPER SPRINI'. This game was being
played everytime I went by and seemed to
get a very favorable reaction.
Bally/Midway/Sente had three pieces that
are worth mentioning: Bally showed LADY
LUCK -a new pin game. Midway showed a
driving game called RPM that used a split
screen and actually was three different
driving games in one. Sente exhibited
S'IDMPIN and a catchy game called Nl\ME THAT
'IUNE which seems to have enorrrous
capabilities.
CAPCa'1 showed S&:TION Z which is a
conversion kit for raster-scan games.
STAR•TECH JOURNAL, April 1986, Volume 8,
Number 2. Copyright (c) 1986 by Ster*Tech
Journal, Inc. All rights reserved. Address
inquiries to: P08 1065, Merchantville, NJ
08109.
Phone: 609/662-1080.
James Celore: Publisher/Editor.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2
Cinematronics held everyone's attention
with a new bowling game called ALLEY
MASTER. This game is part of their CINEMAT
System.
Data East gave us SPEED BUGGY in both a
sit-down three-ronitor version and a new
upright version. This is a good driving
game, folks. They also showed three
good-looking kits: EXPRE:sS RAIDER,
BREAKTHROUGH and RIN:; KIN; II.
Guess what? KUN; FU MASTER, COMMANOO and
SHOOI'CXJT are all available as conversion
kits now.
Digital Controls had a new counter top
game called PACER POKER.
R.H. Belham was there with a host of
rederrption equiprrent like cranes and other
assorted versions. There seemed to be rore
rederrption-based product at this show than
ever before. Maybe we should take note of
this trend?
Kitkorp was showing their GAMATRON pinball
conversion kit along with a video
conversion called GUARDIAN.
Romstar showed three nice kits: GHC6TS
GOBLINS, PATI'LE LANE FIVE and TROJAN.
&
Sega showed three outstanding dedicated
games. They had one called SPACE HARRIER
available in upright, sit-down or in a
simulator. MAJOR LE.AGUE is a new baseball
game that uses trackballs and all kinds of
controls but presents a very realistic
situation. Sega's new gun game SHCX)TIN:;
MASTER is probably the one likely to
succeed.
STAR•TECH JOURNAL (ISSN 0739-1048} is
published monthly during the first week of
the month vie First Class Mail in North
America, vie Air Mail elsewhere.
Subscription rates: USA $56, Canada/Mexico
$63 ($US), Other countries $98 ($US}.
THE TECHNICAL MONTHLY FOR THE AMUSEMENTS INDUSTRY
APRIL 1986
A look At ibe First ACJm SlOW
By John Batistic
Univid Test Systems
Cleveland, OH
The AQIB show that was held at the
Expocenter in downtown Chicago March 7th
through March 9th was well attended by
operators fran around the country. M::>st of
the exhibitors I spoke to were pleased by
the turnout.
AQIB presented an opportunity to see a lot
of new product that is coming down the
line. I will review some of the highlights
of the show for th:>se of you who were not
able to attend. There is not enough space
to cover every single item or to go into
the games too deep, so I will just give a
brief mention of what I consider
important.
Atari showed a three player driving game
called SUPER SPRINI'. This game was being
played everytime I went by and seemed to
get a very favorable reaction.
Bally/Midway/Sente had three pieces that
are worth mentioning: Bally showed LADY
LUCK -a new pin game. Midway showed a
driving game called RPM that used a split
screen and actually was three different
driving games in one. Sente exhibited
S'IDMPIN and a catchy game called Nl\ME THAT
'IUNE which seems to have enorrrous
capabilities.
CAPCa'1 showed S&:TION Z which is a
conversion kit for raster-scan games.
STAR•TECH JOURNAL, April 1986, Volume 8,
Number 2. Copyright (c) 1986 by Ster*Tech
Journal, Inc. All rights reserved. Address
inquiries to: P08 1065, Merchantville, NJ
08109.
Phone: 609/662-1080.
James Celore: Publisher/Editor.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2
Cinematronics held everyone's attention
with a new bowling game called ALLEY
MASTER. This game is part of their CINEMAT
System.
Data East gave us SPEED BUGGY in both a
sit-down three-ronitor version and a new
upright version. This is a good driving
game, folks. They also showed three
good-looking kits: EXPRE:sS RAIDER,
BREAKTHROUGH and RIN:; KIN; II.
Guess what? KUN; FU MASTER, COMMANOO and
SHOOI'CXJT are all available as conversion
kits now.
Digital Controls had a new counter top
game called PACER POKER.
R.H. Belham was there with a host of
rederrption equiprrent like cranes and other
assorted versions. There seemed to be rore
rederrption-based product at this show than
ever before. Maybe we should take note of
this trend?
Kitkorp was showing their GAMATRON pinball
conversion kit along with a video
conversion called GUARDIAN.
Romstar showed three nice kits: GHC6TS
GOBLINS, PATI'LE LANE FIVE and TROJAN.
&
Sega showed three outstanding dedicated
games. They had one called SPACE HARRIER
available in upright, sit-down or in a
simulator. MAJOR LE.AGUE is a new baseball
game that uses trackballs and all kinds of
controls but presents a very realistic
situation. Sega's new gun game SHCX)TIN:;
MASTER is probably the one likely to
succeed.
STAR•TECH JOURNAL (ISSN 0739-1048} is
published monthly during the first week of
the month vie First Class Mail in North
America, vie Air Mail elsewhere.
Subscription rates: USA $56, Canada/Mexico
$63 ($US), Other countries $98 ($US}.
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