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Issue: 1994-July - Vol 16 Issue 5

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NAMCO MERGES
U.S.
NINTENDO AND WILLIAMS
ARCADES
Namco Operations Inc. will
merge with Aladdin's Castle Inc.,
the U.S. arcade chain purchased
by Namco in December 1992, to
form a new company on June 1,
1994. The name of the new en-
tity
will
be
Namco
Cybertainment Inc. It will be
headquartered in Chicago, Illi-
nois.
In other news, Namco recently
purchased MetroMidway, a
27,000 square foot entertainment
center located in Phoenix, Ari-
zona. The arcade will likely serve
as a pilot for Namco's future en-
tertainment center projects in the
U.S.
July 1994
ANNOUNCE GET-TOGETHER
Nintendo's American subsidiary,
Nintendo of America, has signed
a license agreement with com-
mercial game machine manufac-
turer Williams Industries to de-
velop software for its "Project
Reality" 64-bit home game ma-
chines.
sional graphics for commercial
machines and then move to
games for home use.
A joint venture has been estab-
lished to handle software devel-
opment. Under the terms of the
agreement, Williams will supply
all the game software it develops
solely to Nintendo.
The new company will be respon-
sible for managing the develop-
ment of software technology for
the 64-bit hardware unit as well
as providing licenses and technol-
ogy to other companies.
The name of the new company is
Williams Nintendo and the in-
vestment ratio has not been dis-
closed.
The plan is to begin supplying
fighting games with 3-dimen-
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