Coin Op. Journal

DIGEST OF THE COIN JOURAL
The Amusement Machine
Show, as was customary with
the amusement industry, start-
ed from September 30 for a
3-day period at the Inter-
national Trade Center in
Harumi, Tokyo, and ended
without external accident at
least. But it was very eventful
for us.
On September 30th, the first
day of the show, when the
staff of Coin Journal came
back to its booth just after
the opening ceremony to begin
to cover the show, the secre-
tariat unexpectedly ordered
Kobayashi, president of Coin
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Journal, to report to him.
Through the unavoidable cir-
cumstances of Kobayashi's ab-
sence due to illness, Kitanaka,
the chief editor of the Europe
bureau, reported to the secre-
tariat of the show and was
given notice of the suppression
of the magazine by Mr.
Nakamura viva voce, which is
The
Amusement
Machine Show
the beginning of this story.
"Advertisements of gambl-
ing devices are conspicuous."
This seemed to be the prepared
reason for suppression. Yet
such a measure towards an
exhibitor who followed the
necessary procedure is surely
rude, oppressive and arrogant.
The Tokyo show is the
trade's biggest function, and it
may safely be said that every
exhibitor had been devoting
himself to developing new
games and rides so as to ex-
hibit them at the show.
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We were in a similar situa-
tion. Covering all newly-
announced games energetical-
ly, we had given information
about the games to all our
readers and, at the same time,
sold magazines to visitors at
the show.
This sale at the show has
been carried into effect as our
yearly project, and is also one
of our biggest undertakings.
Mr. Nakamura urged suppres-
sion on the very first day of the
show.
It was natural that Kitanaka,
attending the secretariat, refus-
ed to accept Mr. Nakamura's
request and that he called upon
Mr. Nakamura to present a let-
ter of advice, in writing, if he
wouldn't change his attitude.
Regarding this incident at
the show, Mr. Nakamura had
telephoned Kobayashi on the
day before the show started,
Sept. 29, however, as he was
absent, Mr. Nakamura asked
to be put in touch with him
within the day.
Since we
couldn't get in touch with him,
Noda, a chief editor, rang up
the head office of Namco, but
Mr. Nakamura was out. Then
he phoned the exhibition place
and asked a male clerk what
Mr. Nakamura required, but
he replied that he didn't know
anything about it. Of course,
Noda didn't know at all what
Mr. Nakamura was driving at.
It was at about 4 p.m. and thus
the day soon ended. And the
next day started with the sur-