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........ The City Council of oakland, California has put a curfew for young-
sters in effect fer video and pinball arcades during school hours and after
10 p.m. on school nights. On Fridays and Saturdays, youths under 18 may stay
in the arcades until midnight. Parents, educators, and neighborhood groups
supported the measure, news accounts said. (Inside this issue, detailed
reports cover neighborhoods' resistance to arcades in other games.) •.........
........ Acceptance of the resignation of Noah Anglin as president of Exidy,
Inc. by Pete Kauffman, Exidy chairman, was announced in late December. Anglin
toJd of no imrediate future plans but said he was resigning to pursue per-
srnal interests. Kauffman and Anglin stressed that the parting is an amicable
one . ........................................................................ .
. . . . . . . . According to Pete Entringer, of St. Louis's AVA distributorship, a
General Cinemas theater in St. Louis during Christmas week assigned ushers to
keep people in a single line as they crat.tied to play the Nintendo video game
Dmkey Kcng. Patrons later couldn't remember the movie that was playing but
rerranbered the game, Entringer quipped ...............••..................•...
• . . • . . . . Meanwhile, Seattle-based Nintendo of America, having established U.S.
copyright and trademark rights for Donkey Kong, is in the process of taking
legal acticn in several areas against apparent infringers of the video game,
according to marketing manager Alan Stone ...............••...................
. . . . . . . . Hoei International Inc. of Tckyo has announced that it has granted
Sega Enterprises Ltd. of Tc:kyo and Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp. of Chicago
rights to produce its video game Jump Bug. The new game was unveiled at the
Japan trade sho.v and at the Ar10A Expo. Sega has rights to the game in all
areas except for the U.S. , where Rock-Ola holds rights to manufacture it .....
. . . . . . . . Would you believe Ms Pac-Man ... ? That's the follow-up to Midway Manu-
facturing's record-running game. What might be called "The Liberated Pac
W:man" will be in prcrluction at Midway in February, indicated Larry Berke,
sales manager "I'd say the appeal of Ms Pac-Man is going to kindle the fire
of Pac-Man," said Berke. It will feature "more challenge" than the earlier
game, with t:v;Q to four exits at given times mo.ring around the screen's
lx>rders, rather than ranaining fixed, among other play effect additions.
Midway fieJd tested the new game under a different (maiden?) name, and dis-
tributors were repcrted enthusiastic ....................................•....
....•... Arnold A. Kaminkaw, president of Bally Northeast Distributing,
recently announced that Jack Shawcross has been promoted to vice president of
New York state operations for the company. Shawcrass has been in the coin
machine industry 32 years and has been manager of New York state operations
for Bally Northeast f cr eight .....................................••.........
. . . . . . . . Monroe Distributing of Orlando, Florida announced on January 14 the
opening of its new 20,000-square-foot facility as a complete sales, service,
and parts center. John O'Connor, formerly with Monrce's Cleveland office will
be the Orlando manager. The Orlando distributor is lccated at 10705-12 Rocket
Blvd., Regency Industrial Park; phone 305/857-1181 .......................... .
. . . . . . . . Rock-ola Vice President/Sales Hugh J. Gorman recently announced that
Betson Pacific Distributing/Los Angeles was appointed as the exclusive fran-
chise distributor for the Rock-ola phonograph line in Northern California.
Betson Pacific officers Peter Betti and Jerry Mcnday noted that sales and
service of the Rock-ola product will be carried rut fran the distributor-
ship's 960 Havard Street office in San Francisco, as well as 1319 West Pico
Boulevard , los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... .
. . . . . . . -~ International, Inc. set a grand opening party for February 11
and 12 at its new Phoenix, Arizona address: 3828 North 28th Avenue. Rr::Me/
Phoenix retains the sales phone number 602/279-2314 and -2315, with parts
calls encouraged at 279-2283 and service calls to 279-2316 .•.................
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PLAY METER, February 15, 1982