Star Tech Journal

october 1994
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VIDEOGAME
Monitor
SECURITY STANDARDS
Proble111s?
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AREAS OF CONCERN
As reported by the Industry Stan-
dardization Committee. Based
on customer comment cards and
a phone survey to operators the
top three areas of concern on
video games are:
MONITORS:
SYMPTOMS/SOLUTIONS
Includes all monitor
articles from
1) Cashbox
1990, 1991, 1992,
1993 & 1994
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0 1991
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0 1993
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$14.95
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$14.95
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2) Control panel
3) Back door
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The control panel is
easy to "pop" on
most games and it is
easy to get into a
game from the back
door. Once the back
door is open, the con-
trol panel can be
opened as latches are
presently used.
The kids have found
tha t stealing the
game boards and sell-
ing them into a sec-
ondarymarketisnow
more profitable than
steeling the money
game.
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side wall of the cabinet that
makes it difficult to pry open the
control panel from the outside.
BACK DooR
The back door cannot be elimi-
nated mainly due
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to UL require-
ments which state
that high voltage
"The
electronics need to
be
inaccessible
back door
from the front of
the cabinet for
cannot be
safety of the gen-
eliminated eral public. (It also
must protect a thief
mainly
who goes for the
cash box
-we
due to
wouldn't want him
or her to get elec-
UL
trocuted).
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req u 1 re-
It was also pro-
posed that the front
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of the cabinet be
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made of plywood
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to give the operator
more security (bet-
from the ter base to mount security hard-
ware on).
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CONTROL PANEL
TALLY
It was proposed that the control
panel be made such that it can be
secured directly to the cabinet
and become an integral part of
the cabinet. Dynamo uses a
bracket that is mounted to the
control panel that inserts into the
The votes were split between
manufacturers who make dedi-
cated games and those that make
general systems cabinets. All
cabinet manufacturers will be
polled to come up with a pro-
posal. Results will be upcoming .
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