good orders for the piece during that U.K. convention). Electrocoin builds the game for SNK there, as Dynamo does Stateside; the difference is the size of the unit (since U.K. pub locations are smaller, so is the console on which the three guns are mounted).
SNK will continue to produce Beast Busters on distributor order. Meantime, they've readied their following release which begins shipping early this month. It's a price game called Search and Rescue. As the name implies this dedicated upright is a one- or two-player search for survivors and the black recording box of a space craft that has crashed on a mysterious planet. Enemy alien creatures are out to prevent the success of their mission. It uses SNK's rotary joystick previously "made famous" on their Ikari
Warriors and Guerilla War games.
Come ACME, something truly
special will be unveiled for Ameri
can operators. SNK's awaited Neo
Geo System multi-game upright will be premiered at their show display (international dealers will have seen it beforehand at a special Jan. 31 showing in Osaka). The Neo-Geo will offer four games in a 19" monitor cabinet or six in a 25" model, all of which are reportedly "state of the art" designed for the coin machine business. "This system is very advanced and should not be confused with any other multi-game video now on the market," Jacobs advised.
So, from uprights, to kits, to system games, SNK is offering a rather full menu of video fare for early 1990 and beyond, including the modestly-priced Search and Rescue upright that could show a lot of things in the rather testy market America finds itself in at present times.
FIND THE STERN IN THE STOCKADE - Maybe "stockade" is a bit stringent, but you have to have been at Chicago's Zum Deutschen Eck Restaurant the night of Dec. 8th to know the true feeling of "togetherness. " It provided the setting for Atlas Distributing's annual Christmas party and as usual, the crowd that turned out busted the walls. Now to the contest. Since everybody knows what Gary Stern looks like, see if you can locate him in this sea of trade humanity. Score yourself a hundred points if you do (score only 1 each for Jerry Marcus, Eddie Pellegrini and the Atlas wives; score 5 points for Rich Robbins, Mike Minor, Mort Ansky, Frank Pellegrini and Bob Lentz. Those finding Gary can throw away their eyeglasses (and RePlay will give a free subscription to its printer for a job well done).
