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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.2


THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AND THE OTHER SECURITIES ISSUABLE
UPON EXERCISE THEREOF HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT (1) PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE ACT, (11) TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE,
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER SUCH ACT (OR ANY SIMILAR RULE UNDER SUCH ACT RELATING
TO THE DISPOSITION OF SECURITIES), OR (111) UPON THE DELIVERY BY THE HOLDER TO
THE COMPANY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO COUNSEL FOR THE
COMPANY, STATING THAT AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT IS
AVAILABLE.

THE TRANSFER OR EXCHANGE OF THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE IS
RESTRICTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WARRANT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.

                            EXERCISABLE ON OR BEFORE
                    5:00 P.M., NEW YORK TIME, APRIL 14, 2005
No. W-1                                                          42,000 Warrants

                               WARRANT CERTIFICATE

                  This Warrant Certificate certifies that GunnAllen Financial,
Inc. or registered assigns is the registered holder of Forty-Two Thousand
(42,000) Warrants to purchase, at any time from April 14, 2001 until 5:00 P.M.
New York City time on April 14, 2005 ("Expiration Date") up to Forty-Two
Thousand (42,000) shares ("Shares") of fully-paid and nonassessable common
stock, par value $.005 per share ("Common Stock"), of NTN Communications, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), at the initial exercise price, subject
to adjustment in certain events (the "Exercise Price"), of $3.75 per Share upon
surrender of this Warrant Certificate and payment of the Exercise Price or
notice of cashless exchange at an office or agency of the Company, but subject
to the conditions set forth herein and in the warrant agreement dated as of
April 19, 2000 ("Warrant Agreement") between the Company, Starr Securities,
Inc., and GunnAllen Financial, Inc. Payment of the Exercise Price may be made in
cash, by certified or official bank check in New York Clearing House funds
payable to the order of the Company, or any combination of cash or check, or in
shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Notice of Exchange in accordance with
Section 3 of the Warrant Agreement.

                  No Warrant may be exercised after 5:00 P.M., New York City
time, on the Expiration Date, at which time all Warrants evidenced hereby,
unless exercised prior thereto, shall thereafter be void.

                  The Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are part of
a duly authorized issue of Warrants issued pursuant to the Warrant Agreement,
which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part
of this instrument and is hereby referred to in a description of the rights,
limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder


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of the Company and the holders (the words "holders" or "holder" meaning the
registered holders or registered holder) of the Warrants.

                  The Warrant Agreement provides that upon the occurrence of
certain events, the Exercise Price and/or number of the Company's securities
issuable thereupon may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted. In such
event, the Company will, at the request of the holder, issue a new Warrant
Certificate evidencing the adjustment in the Exercise Price and the number
and/or type of securities issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants; provided,
however, that the failure of the Company to issue such new Warrant Certificates
shall not in any way change, alter, or otherwise impair, the rights of the
holder as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

                  Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Warrant Certificate at an office or agency of the Company, a new Warrant
Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the
aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee(s) in
exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided
herein and in the Warrant Agreement, without any charge except for any tax, or
other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

                  Upon the exercise of less than all of the Warrants evidenced
by this Certificate, the Company shall forthwith issue to the holder hereof a
new Warrant Certificate representing such number of unexercised Warrants.

                  The Company may deem and treat the registered holder(s) hereof
as the absolute owner(s) of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any
notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose
of any exercise hereof, and of any distribution to the holder(s) hereof, and for
all other purposes, and the Company shall not be affected by any notice to the
contrary.


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                  All terms used in this Warrant Certificate which are defined
in the Warrant Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Warrant
Agreement.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant
Certificate to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:  April 19, 2000                      NTN COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

                                            By:      /s/ Stanley B. Kinsey
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                                            Name:  Stanley B. Kinsey
                                            Title: Chairman of the Board and
                                                   Chief Executive Officer
[SEAL]


Attest:

       /s/ Kendra S. Berger
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Name:  Kendra S. Berger
Title: Chief Financial Officer


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                         [FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE]

                  The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the
right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, to purchase Shares and herewith
tenders in payment for such Shares cash or a certified or official bank check
payable in New York Clearing House Funds to the order of _____________________
in the amount of $_______ all in accordance with the terms hereof. The
undersigned requests that a certificate for such Shares be registered in the
name of ____________________, whose address is _____________________ and that
such Certificate be delivered to whose address is ___________________________.

[ ] The Undersigned hereby elects to exercise the Warrants held by it in
accordance with Section ___ of the Warrant Agreement dated ______________, 2000.

Dated:                                Signature:________________________________
                                      (Signature must conform in all respects to
                                      name of holder as specified on the face of
                                      the Warrant Certificate.)


                        (Insert Social Security or Other
                          Identifying Number of Holder)

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                              [FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]

                  (To be executed by the registered holder if such holder
desires to transfer the Warrant Certificate.)

                  FOR VALUE RECEIVED _________________________________ hereby
sells, assigns and transfers unto


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                  (Please print name and address of transferee)

this Warrant Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein,
and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________________,
Attorney, to transfer the within Warrant Certificate on the books of the
within-named Company, with full power of substitution.


Dated:                                Signature:
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                                      (Signature must conform in all respects to
                                      name of holder as specified on the face of
                                      the Warrant Certificate.)



                        (Insert Social Security or Other
                          Identifying Number of Holder)