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STAR*TECH Journal
September 1993
ATARI WORLD RALLY
WITH
25'' IIANTAREX MONITOR
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St. Paul, Minnesota
SUBJECT
Some time ago, I purchased
several Chase HQ video games
with both 25 and 19 inch moni-
tors. I am now noticing about a
40% increase in
total earnings
with the big
monitor.
eamwhatitshould. Youmight
be better off giving your money
to the Red Cross for flood re-
lief. If you are serious about
When doing your
conversions with
a game like
World Rally by
Atari, it really
pays to use a new
25 inch monitor.
Driving games
have a much
longer life than
most other video
games. (Most of
us are still run-
ning Pole Pos i-
t ions from 1980!)
Two factors are of major im-
portance with the monitor.
The first is the size of the moni-
tor. Not all 25" monitors are
the same size!
The difference
is the angle of
the CRT. Most
sets have a lO(k
degree tubl'6"
The
new
Hantarex 25"
Polo has a 110
degree tube
which makes it
about
2"
shorter
in
depth. This can
be very impor-
tant when in-
stalling the
game in a cabi-
net where a 19"
monitor came
out of.
CABINET/MO NI•
TOR
BY THE NUM•
The big problem
with doing a con-
version with World Rally is
choosing the right cabinet. If
you install it in an ten year old
cabinet your new game won't
BERS
earning money, you need to
have a new 25" big screen
monitor for your game.
The numbers
that are important are 22-5/t'
wide and 16-5/8" deep and 20:
5/8" high. This monitor weighs
almost twice what a 19" moni-