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(co ntinu ed fro m p age 10)
THE
CALENDAR
F•bruary 22- 24
MOMA Show. Minnesota Operators
of Music a nd Amusements. Radisson
Hotel. St. Paul. Minnesota. Telephone
612/ 927-6662.
F•bruary 28-March 2
SADA '85. Victoria Eugenia Palace.
Barcelona. Spain.
March 1 - ~
Amusement Showcase International.
Expocente r / Downtown. Chicago.
Illinois. Telephone 312/ 771 -3290.
March 4-7
AMOA Executive Deve lopment
Program. The Center for Continuing
Education. Notre Dame. Indiana.
Telephone 312/ 654-2662
March 8-10
South Carolina Coin Operators Asso-
ciation Show. The Carolina Inn.
Columbia.South Carol ina.
March 24-27
AMOA Execu ti ve Deve lopment
Program. Notre Dame. Indiana .
Telephone 32/ 654-2662.
March 29-~1
Amusement Operators Expo (AOE).
New Orleans Sheraton Downtown .
Telephone : 504/ 488-7003.
Did You Know ...
Van Brook Tokens are used for
the Vending Machines at the U.S.
Mint in Philadelphia.
VAN BROOK OF LEXINGTON
P. 0 . BOX 5044
LEX, KY.
40555
606-231-7 100
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four games are poor substitu tes for
current video game p roduct.
Ball y Man u factur ing Corp ., a
Chicago video game ma n ufactu rer,
is the lottery commission's pa r tner
in the video lottery venture. Bally is
also t he exclusive opera tor of t he
video lottery mach ines.
Bally chai rman Bob Mu lla ne to ld
Play Meter recent ly t hat h is com-
pa ny did not p lan to use any of its
existing amuseme n t game concepts
"a t this time." H owever, the Bally
chairman refused to ru le out Bally's
usi ng the copyrighted video game
characters and games in the video
lottery format at some later date.
According to the Chicago Tri-
bune , " Among the games being
developed ... are a color matchi n g
cube game and a bal loon-shooti ng
game . Also under consideration are
anot her space invader game and a
game in wh ich the likeness of a bar-
tender mixes beer bott les on t he
sc reen . The player must try to
choose whi ch bottle will explode in
the bartender's face when opened ."
De pit media reports which
focus in on th low earnings of the
machines to date, both Bally and the
lottery supe rintendent insist the
video lottery test is progressing ve ry
satisfactori ly.
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Stroll resigns from Williams
Michael Stroll resigned as presi -
dent of the Chicago based William s
Electronics January 2. Reported ly,
the rea son fo r h is resignation wa s
that he refused to accept a cut in pay
as part of W ill iams' cost r duction
p lans.
W il liams h as continued to suffer
substantia l losses due to t he declin -
ing coin-operated video game
market. Time Magazine in its iss ue
named W illiams Electronics as one
of the worst companies on t he New
York Stock Exchange for 1984
showing a minu s 71.8 percent
change. The co mpan y, according
to attorney Jeff Segal , ha s imp le-
ment d a cost cutting prog ram in
whi ch executive sa laries were ca ll ed
into question . Stroll wa s asked to
take a voluntary c ut in sa lary, but
Strol l declined , opting to resign .
Stro ll and Wi lliams negotiated a
settlement on the 3Y2 yea rs remain-
ing o n hi s employment co nt ract.
Stroll had been presi dent at Wi ll iams
si nce 1977.
Loui s icastro , chairma n of th e
board , assumed t h e presi den cy ,
agreeing to a cut in salary.
Nicastro and Stroll agr ed to
salary cuts in July of 1983 when
stockho lders filed suit in Delaware
against Wi ll iams claiming execu-
tive 's sa laries were excessive and a
Michae l Stroll
waste of co rporate funds . At that
time , reportedly , St ro ll's salary and
bonu ses amounted to $1.7 million
and Nicastro 's totaled $1 .3 mi ll ion .
In another cos t cutting mea sure,
according to Segal , the factory
remained closed from ea rl y su mmer
until after the October 31 AM O A
show. He noted the fa ctory is now
op n on a limited ba sis producing
Spac Shuttle and Strik e Zone. Segal
al so m e ntion e d the company ' s
p lan s to open the facilities for
" board stuffing " for other com-
panies.
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PLAY METER. February 1. 1985