Coin Op. Journal

月刊コインジャーナル

Issue: 1982-December - Vol 7 Issue 12 80

DIGEST OF THE COIN JOURAL
prise letter of advice from
Mr. Nakamura said, may be
In the meantime, Mr.
Nakamura's written letter was
sent from the secretariat as had
been required by Kitanaka.
The content of the letter is as
a magazine including incon-
Nakamura.
follows:
Sept. 30, 1982
To Mr. Kobayashi, president of
About an hour later, we
were visited by Mr. Mori,
the reason. Does he mean that
president of Esco Trade, and
Mr. Fukuda, president of Data
East, who also suggested either
withholding the sale of the
magazine until Kobayashi of
Coin Journal appeared at the
committee, or writing a note in
which we would promise them
spicuous advertisements would
be alright? He must clarify this
point, otherwise he must put
an immediate stop to dis-
crimination based upon his
private
feelings against an
exhibitor.
Coin Journal
H
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The committee of the Amusement
Machine Show notifies you herein
IN
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S
that the committee has decided
M
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T
MA
CH
to suspend the selling of Coin-
Op Journal temporarily until Mr.
M
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S
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Kobayashi attends the committee
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of the show to defend himself.
Reason:
gambling devices defined ac-
association's aim.
Masaya Nakamura, chairman of
the committee
The above letter presents an
obvious logical contradiction.
It says that the committee
"suspends the selling of the
magazine until Kobayashi at-
tends the committee of the
show to defend himself," but
we can't understand against
what we defend ourselves,
since it doesn't touch upon any
accurate reasons that would
necessate a defence.
"The magazine includes
conspicuous advertisements of
gambling devices," which, as
.....
cording to the association's
standard, is contrary to the
.....
.....
.......
The magazine, which includes
conspicuous advertisements of
アミューズ
Mr. Masaya Nakamura
The committee must be
always be fair and disinterested
to every member of the associ-
ation, however, we doubt it is,
because it hasn't been ascer-
tained yet whether or not the
to terminate all advertisements
of gambling devices inserted
in the magazine within a few
months.
Mr. Mori and Mr. Fukuda
committee has sent the same
urged us, with a high-handed
attitude, to choose between
We decided to accept it,
missing to terminate adver-
letter to another trade publish-
er, Game Machine.
but, needless to say, we re-
fused to accept the suggestion
of temporary suppression of
Coin-Op Journal in considera-
tion of the reasons mentioned
before.
temporary suppression of the
magazine or the note pro-
tisements, and moreover they
required our prompt reply.
What an ill-mannered be-
havior to an exhibitor who
followed the regular pro-
ceedings! Besides, they did this
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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


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-

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