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Call from <u>Phil Orbanes</u>. | Call from <u>Phil Orbanes</u>. He asked if I had the rules for his game | ||
of <u>CAR-TEL - THE GAME OF 12 KINGDOMS</u>. Looked thru the box with | |||
his (and Jim's) games and found it. His set was spoiled when | |||
a box he had in the basement of his apartment house was | |||
flooded by a washing machine. He asked me to send him the | |||
rules; he is working on something in which he can use some of | |||
the ideas, he thinks. (Didn't get any details.) | |||
<br>We discussed the new companies that have tried to make it in games | |||
and the only one that looks like it will last is A.H., which does | |||
it with their war games - not their general line. And, of course, there | |||
is S.P.I. Phil said that what is keeping "Gamut" going is the | |||
magic. What a company needs, we both agreed, is one or more | |||
staples that go on year after year. | |||
<br>In the discussion, 3M came up and Phil said he'd love to get the | |||
line if 3M gives it up. He said that <u>ACQUIRE</u> is the best of | |||
all the new games - including his own. | |||
<br>Phil has been studying what sells and he feels that an important | |||
thing to have the title tell the buyer something that they can | |||
connect with. <u>REALM</u> is bad in this connection. [illegible word crossed out] | |||
<u>CAREERS</u> is good. And <u>RISK</u> is not bad. | |||
<br>I asked if Phil had a subscription to <u>SIMULATION/GAMING/NEWS</u>. Yes, | |||
but the one I saw there on 11/5 was the first one he rcd. | |||
<br>They rcd. the final comments on <u>SLY</u> from Amway and the money should | |||
be along in a month or so. In any case Phil said that he would see | |||
that I get the $500 this year. | |||
<br>Call from <u>Felicia</u>. In a long talk with <u>Shephard Bently</u> | |||
[Manager, Special Markets | |||
Aladdin Industries, Inc. | |||
P.O. Box 10333 | |||
Nashville, Tenn. 37210] | |||
she <s>mention</s> learned, among other | |||
things, that <u>PUSHOVER</u> will be given | |||
TV in January, instead of <u>BALI</u> which | |||
they originally told her would get it. | |||
According to Shep <u>TOTALLY</u> is al- | |||
ready on TV, but he couldn't tell her the time & channels. | |||
<br>She asked me about the letter to <u>Alidor Belskis</u> (see 11/4). Told her | |||
that I was just getting to it. She asked me to send a copy of the | |||
letter to Shep Bently. Also I should tell him that the Aladdin games | |||
should be in Brentano's. (At present, she says, the jobber & | |||
the buyer can't stand each other.) | |||
<br><u>Irving Kosoff</u>, previously of Brentano's, has opened a store of his | |||
own on L.I. [Long Island] She hears that <u>221B BAKER ST.</u> is doing well in | |||
Brentano's. She has been getting orders for <u>BALI</u> passed on to her | |||
by S&R. She passes them on to <u>John Stephenson</u> of Games Gallery - | |||
who is the only one in New York that she knows of that handles | |||
<u>BALI</u>. She doesn't think that he is doing too well. | |||
<br>Rappaport's paid $1 for <u>INTERSECTION</u> (where?) and is selling them for | |||
$4. She doesn't think they are moving. They still haven't rcd. the | |||
other Aladdin games that they ordered. | |||
<u>In her worrying about finances, she mentioned that she has some | |||
things pending with Parker. She also has a thing of | |||
<br>(cont. on 11/9) | |||