helping Capcom USA achieve its goals."
Rounding out the Cap
com team are several wellknown and likeable industry personalities. National sales manager is Brian Duke, who recently returned to the company after a stint at a virtual reality firm. Western regional sales manager is Dennis ("the tie") Sable, who's been with Capcom for several years. Eastern regional sales manager Ron Malinowski has been aboard with Capcom for a couple of years now, following his key management position at Aladdin's
Castle arcades. Experienced tradester (and Chicago transplant) Shelley Sax is aboard as Capcom USA's sales administrator, while the savvy Li Kramer is marketing director. Hardworking Mr. Kazushi Hiaro serves as U.S. chief operating officer.
"We're proud of our new staff for taking a new direction to make Capcom the leader in the coin-op arena, as we should be," said Joe Morici. "The product speaks for itself, and our new team is ready to build stronger relationships with our operators and loyal distributor customers."
The parent company, Capcom Co. Ltd., is a publicly traded firm on the Japanese stock market. The firm's
1992 revenues nearly doubled those of the preceding year, reaching a staggering $689 million thanks largely to the smash success of Champion Edition. This magazine once tagged Capcom founder Mr. Tsujimoto as industry's "quiet giant" because, for quite a few years, many of Capcom's hit games were marketed through other companies. Now, with the runaway sales of the Street Fighter games marketed under Capcom's own label, we'd have to call him "the extremely prominent giant"!
ABOUT SUPER SF 11
Super Street Fighter II joins an incredibly profitable line of forebears.
The combined series of SF games has grossed billions of dollars in coin-op revenues around the world. (By the way, Capcom has sold over 8 million copies of the home video versions of the series as well.)
Super's new hardware platform is called the BGS System. "It offers much greater computing power for better graphics, memory and object motion," said Joe Morici. "The improved quality of visuals can instantly be seen by just looking at the screen. I can instantly tell the difference and I think everybody else will be able to, as well. Over the next couple of years, Capcom will bring out a
number of games using this system. Future BGS games will involve relatively inexpensive software changes; just plug in a sub-board into the mother board," Joe added.
Another new technological wrinkle: four units of the game may be linked side by side at a single site in a "tournament format," allowing eight players to move through a series of matches to determine their respective rankings.
Players at your locations will find four new characters added to the cast: "Cammy" is a British double agent, armed with an incredible arsenal of moves; "Dee Jay" is a powerful Jamaican prize fighter; "Feilong" is a
Capcom Ltd. Chairman Kenzo Tsujimoto.
Chief Operating Officer Mr. Kazushi Hiaro Page 184
Joe Morici, Sr. Vice President, Capcom USA
October 1993
Steve Blattspieler, Arcade Division Gen. Mgr. RePlay Magazine
