And a Hearty Howdy to everybody:

*****WAHOOO!  ITS A CONTEST!   WITH A PRIZE FOR THE WINNER!!*******

Simulation Products is faced with a prickly challenge: What do we call our 
driver training simulator? Lots of names have been suggested, hurled, called,
or otherwise communicated, and while nothing has been categorically ruled
out (except perhaps  "Car 54"), there must be a great one out there, 
lurking in the shadows of someone's imagination....

The inital target market for the trainer is the law enforcement community,
and while most of us probably don't have a lot of exposure to this world,
names which evoke feelings or ideas associated with law & order might be a good 
area to explore.  Cops have a sense of humor,too (occasionally).

Some of the feelings or concepts we may want to convey in the product name 
include: dynamic, interactive, many vehicles at once, judgement, wisdom, grace 
under pressure, hi-tech, computer generated imagery, police lingo, exciting, 
fast, sure, discriminating, rational decision making, quick decision making, 
etc, etc...  We're open to a wide range of ideas.

Rules of the Game:  Outright names are OK, as are acronymns. The name ATARI 
cannot be used because the product is not a game, but the name could possibly 
be referred to in an acronymn via the letter "A"  If you submit an acronymn,
also specify the words which each of the letters stand for.

FIRST PRIZE:  ONE WEEK IN CLEVELAND

SECOND PRIZE:  TWO WEEKS IN CLEVELAND

OK, OK

THE REAL FIRST PRIZE:	WHATEVER YOU WANT (as long as it costs less than 25 
			bucks)

			PLUS; your name in the credits as the genius who 
			thought of this clever name.

Some of the names tossed up so far  (now don't be judgemental...):

AMOS	(Atari games corp Mobile Operations Simulator)
DES	(Driving Environment Simulator)
ASP	(Atari Simulation Products)
TAGCAR	
SAFE	
PLATO	
RAMBO
PARTNER
MOBETA SIMULATION
P-25
XP-92 TRAINER
CODE THREE 
A.T.A.R.I.	(Advanced Training Automation Resources Inc)


SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO THE E-MAIL ADDRESS: GRAVES


Progress will be reported, and a winner announced as soon as we have one!

Well, hello again Everybody:

In the spirit of Friday afternoon, and of fostering ongoing creativity, 
I am going to list the names that people have so far suggested for our
new driving simulators...

Can't say as though we have a winner yet, but with our add copy deadline 
rapidly approaching, we're going to have to come up with something good,
really soon.  Hopefully, seeing these suggestions will inspire those of
us who haven't yet contributed to gush forth with a wellspring of blindingly
inspirational stuff.  Or something.  Anything.   And if you've already replied,
but have thought of something else, let's hear it!

Read 'em and weep.  Hope to hear from you soon.  Reply to Graves or call me @
extension 3725.

Here they are,in all their unexplained glory:

ASDD;		ES92;		AMOS;		DES;		ASP;	
TAGCAR;		SAFE;		PLATO;		RAMBO;		PARTNER;
MOBETA;		WDNNSBT;	HSPT;		ST-1000;	C.O.P.-ulator
TSI;		THE STIMULATOR;	SQUAD CAR;	BLACK & WHITE;	ALBT;
ONE FOR THE ROAD;		FAST CHASER;	ASSAULT;	COP-O-MATIC;
COP-IN-A-BOX;	P-25;		CODE THREE;	DUIDD;		DWEEB

If you can do better, have at it!  Yea team!

************* CONGRATULATIONS!!! ****************

Dave Pasquinelli is the winner of the "Name That Thang" contest.

Simulation Products received scores of innovative, hilarious,
disgusting and creative suggestions for a product name for the
advanced driving simulator being developed.

("C.O.P.-ulator" is not the winner...)

Dave Pasquinelli's initial suggestion, sent to us on the first
day of the contest, was ST-1000, for "Safety Trainer" or "Simulation
Trainer 1000".  The name selection committee went through the huge
list of suggestions, and Dave's concept was adopted and adapted and mixed
with Eric Aker's idea ("Sim-Vee") to create a list of "family" designations 
for all the models of the driving simulators.

Thus, the basic 5-screen law enforcement driver training simulator
will be known as the *** SV5000LE *** for Simulation Vehicle, 5-screen,
Law Enforcement. A 3-screen simulator for general education driver training
will be known as an *** SV3000GT ***

Once again, thanks Dave for your suggestion, and you are the proud recipient
of a twenty-five dollar gift certificate.  Please see Larry Graves and shake
him down for it.