Star Tech Journal
Issue: 1992-November - Vol 14 Issue 9 - Page 6
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STAR*TECH Journal
November 7 992
OPERATOR FRIENDLY:
1990
1991
1992
ANOTHER FEATURE FOR
STANJJARDIZATION
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St Paul, Minnesota
MONITOR UPDATES
All monitor articles
SUBJECT
The operator today always gets a
location complaint that a button
or joystick is not working cor-
rectly. Unfortunately, many
games do not have a switch test.
The ones that do many times re-
quire crawling inside the cabinet
(often in dark dingy bars) to oper-
ate the switch test.
Another problem is that most
likely you don't have the game
manual or even know wherie to
look for the adjustment. This
happens all the time, and not just
when the game is new but when
that game goes into another cabi-
net or sold -things get lost and
forgotten.
THE FIRST
Fabtek has made a significant
change with their new game
Heated Barrel. When you get
your kit installed and hold the
right joystick on power-up, you
will find the complete DIP switch
settings and switch test.
covered in 1989/'90
For example, if you think that
there may be trouble with mak-
ing the 45 degree shots, hold the
joystick on the 45 degree angle
and verify it. Simple.
'92 published in a
The screen will tell you also if the
game is set for easy or hard play,
etc. All games in the future
should incorporate this feature.
What a time and headache saver.
or 1990/'91 or 1991 /
handy easy-to-read
format. Over 25 new
video monitor Symp-
toms and Fixes in
each. These tips pre-
STANDARD
As a matter of fact, this feature
will be presented at the next
AMOA Standardization Commit-
tee meeting as an item that is
necessary to further help the op-
erator to run his business more
efficiently.
viously appeared in
STAR*TECH Journal's
Volume l l, 12 or 13.
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STAR*TECH Journal
November 7 992
OPERATOR FRIENDLY:
1990
1991
1992
ANOTHER FEATURE FOR
STANJJARDIZATION
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St Paul, Minnesota
MONITOR UPDATES
All monitor articles
SUBJECT
The operator today always gets a
location complaint that a button
or joystick is not working cor-
rectly. Unfortunately, many
games do not have a switch test.
The ones that do many times re-
quire crawling inside the cabinet
(often in dark dingy bars) to oper-
ate the switch test.
Another problem is that most
likely you don't have the game
manual or even know wherie to
look for the adjustment. This
happens all the time, and not just
when the game is new but when
that game goes into another cabi-
net or sold -things get lost and
forgotten.
THE FIRST
Fabtek has made a significant
change with their new game
Heated Barrel. When you get
your kit installed and hold the
right joystick on power-up, you
will find the complete DIP switch
settings and switch test.
covered in 1989/'90
For example, if you think that
there may be trouble with mak-
ing the 45 degree shots, hold the
joystick on the 45 degree angle
and verify it. Simple.
'92 published in a
The screen will tell you also if the
game is set for easy or hard play,
etc. All games in the future
should incorporate this feature.
What a time and headache saver.
or 1990/'91 or 1991 /
handy easy-to-read
format. Over 25 new
video monitor Symp-
toms and Fixes in
each. These tips pre-
STANDARD
As a matter of fact, this feature
will be presented at the next
AMOA Standardization Commit-
tee meeting as an item that is
necessary to further help the op-
erator to run his business more
efficiently.
viously appeared in
STAR*TECH Journal's
Volume l l, 12 or 13.
Update your techni-
cal library with these
valuable references.
1$ 12.95
A
D
V
E
R
T
s
N
G
.
?
each I
add $3.50 s/h
Prepaid or COD
{f;,!ii,D,fl, !?©ff1 'iJ{}Ufl /AfJ©~'il !t;©/AfJ!P&'ilU'ilUW'&
~[Q) ~'[fg~
UlNl 'illbfl& UfNl@(!J}~'ilrt1Wa
609/662-108CI
OR FAX
609/662-0537
S*TJ
PO Box 1065
Merchantville, NJ
08109.609/662-1080.
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