From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Computer addiction, etc
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.322
Posted: Tue May 18 12:36:16 1982
Received: Thu May 20 01:53:04 1982
References: watmath.2412


In response to John Winterton's article mentioning that the Video Arcade used
only "tokens", rather than quarters.  I saw an interesting sign in one of the
arcades here at Purdue (Lafayette, Indiana).  It read something like:

			NOTICE
	It is *ILLEGAL* to use Pin Pan Alley tokens
	in any other arcade, and also *ILLEGAL* to
	use tokens from another arcade here at Pin
	Pan Alley.  

The sign went on, however, this was what surprised me.  I know that most arcades
use tokens which are "unique", i.e., I have tried using the "wrong" tokens at
a couple of the arcades in town, and they don't work anyway.  I did find it
interesting that there is a law which covers this.  

Any lawyer types out there who know if this is a new law, or is it covered 
under some older law?

--Dave Curry