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82
Featuring
this month
presented at the AMOA Show .. ... . .. ..... . .
. . ... Southwest Vending Sales Co . counted
3,000 persons in attendance for its
first-ever distributor preview, held
November 7 in Dallas, timed to follow the
AMOA show and featuring all major manu-
f acturers and the ir equipment on hand .
Operators' interest in the new games was
high, and Southwest Vending featured ser-
vice seminars with factory representa-
tives conducting sessions. Details will
follow in Play Meter .. .. . .. .... ... . .. .. . .
..... Atari announced on November ll that
it had entered into an agreement with
Namco, Ltd. of Japan for the exclusive
manufacture and sa le of Namco's n ewest
video game in the United Sta tes and
Canada, plus othe r territories. The Namco
game would b e announced later. A Namco
spokesman said the relationship be t ween
the two manufacture rs will be to excha nge
"both t e chnical and marketing ideas" in
other joint projects .... .. . . .. .. . ....... .
.... . Be tson Enterprises has set a product
s howing f o r December 2 at Leonards of
Great Neck, Northern Blvd ., Gr eat Neck,
New York, featuring the n ew Rock-Ola 488
jukebox as we ll as a new game product
premiere .. ...... . .. . ..... ... . ..... .... .. .
... .. Stern Electronics, I n c. has ap-
pointed Gil Williams, a v e t eran coin-op
games industry executive, to the post of
corporate consultant. He will supervise
the establishment of a full-line Ste rn
producti o n facil ity in Limerick, Ireland,
which wi·l l begin assembly processes in
January . Williams currently operates
Galaxy Arcades in Cali f ornia and has
serv ed as Ata ri' s vice president of manu-
factur ing ...... . ..... . . .. . .. . .. ...... . .. .
..... Patrick L. O 'Ma lley has been named a
member o f the Board of Directors of Bally
Corp . O'Malle y is c hairman e meritus of
Canteen Corp . and is a member of the
board of the Chi cago Area Regional Tran-
s i t Authority. As well as holding other
public posts , he is an officer in a num-
b er o f fi nancial institutions including
Michigan Avenue National Bank, Chi cago ...
. .... The Governor of Puerto Rico repo rt-
edly has signed an executive order delay-
ing the removal of 380 slot machines from
the island' s seven casin os on December
31 . Gov. Carlos Romero apparently wants
to give the l egislature time to recon-
sider its o rder that al l slot machines be
removed by August of 1 982. From al l s l ots
in Pue rto Rico, 60 percent o f the income
goes to the government treasury , accord-
ing to the gaming trade press . ....... ... .
PLAY METER, jan uary 1, 1982