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AAMA group visits China Can't . from page 12 COIN-OP NEWS Capcom promotes Gillin Capcom USA has promoted John Gillin to director of marketing for both the coin-op and consumer divisions. His rise from marketing manager of the consumer division comes on the heels of Capcom's most successful year. Product sales in 1993 reached record levels , and revenue doubled to over $800 million worldwide. "Much of our recordbreaking success in 1993 can be attributed to Capcom ' s aggressive and innovative marketing efforts under John's direction," said senior vice president Joe Morici. "With his guidance and new level of responsibility, the unified, strategic direction of our market- ing will pave the way for continued growth and leadership, product diversification, and unrivaled success." With the aid of Gillin's management, Capcom's headline product-Street Fighter II for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System-became t he best-selling game of 1992, with sales topping two million units. Sequel In China it's common to see homemade pool tables outside in the towns and villages. Mark and Jenny struhs stand beside this attempt at a Dynamo pool table. Nice try. products-Street Fighter II Turbo for the SNES and Street Fighter II, Special Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis -sold about two million units each by the end of 1993. Prior to Capcom, Gillin worked for Del Monte Foods for five years as a product manager. This retired general, a former head of the Red Army, enjoys a game of air hockey at AAMA's Hotel Expo booth. Arachnid names Mondial Arachnid Inc. has appointed Mondial International Corp . as its exclusive distributor for dart machines in South America and the Caribbean. Mondial will handle sales of Arachnid in South America and the Caribbean are aware of the earning potential of these machines," said Fernando Galeb , Mondial's export sales manager. Sales representatives Galaxy, Coors Silver from Mondial and ArBullet, and English Mark achnid will be present at Darts machines from its all seminars and toumaheadquarters in Pelham ments to demonstrate to Manor, N.Y. local operators the viaMondial has already bility of darts in the ir scheduled seminars and region. "Arachnid h a s tournaments in the demonstrated its sup countries where it has port for the ope rators , the exclusive. "While and we're proud to be a darts have enjoyed rapid part of their team ," growth in the U.S. mar- Galeb added. ket, not many operators PLAY METER 13 enthusi asm a b ou t the potential of the Chinese market. 'Tm excited not just fo r m y comp a n y , Dyn a m o, but for the whole coin-op industry," he said. "It m a k es yo u fe el good to see the kind of r eaction th ey h a d to our industry's products . They'r e u sed to junkie copy g~m es a nd e qui p m ent that's terribly outdated. At the Hotel Expo we showed an air hockey table, a pinball m achine , a CD jukebox, a nd a vid eo , N BA JAM. The Chinese just loved all of it. "The governm e n t is encouragin g and devel- op in g r e form s for the economy; th ey'r e trying to raise t h e industrial outpu t of t h e country. But t h e p e opl e are demanding it as well, so it would be very difficult to try to quash that. The gove rnm e n t wan ts to secure and develop a lot of technology in order to cre a te jobs and we alth fo r C h in a. Fo r most countries GNP growth of two to fo ur p erce nt a year is astronomical. In China it was 15 per cent last year and is projected to b e n in e p erce nt this year . That's unheard of! " FEBRUARY 1994