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RePlay Magazine is a monthly trade publication for the amusement route and family entertainment center owners and operators. This blog is intended to foster dialogue between professionals at all levels of the amusement industry. The site will pose a monthly question of critical importance to operators (and other members of the trade) in hopes that the sharing of our readers’ respective experience will help foster solutions and create a greater awareness of the industry’s common bonds.
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I do not believe any operator can complain about a lack of new exciting equipment available for the upcoming summer season. While most pieces may be on the pricey side their predecessors have already proven to be long term earning pieces (i.e., Dance Dance Revolution, Time Crisis, etc.). I firmly have one piece in each buying category (dedicated game, driving game, redemption piece, merchandiser, and conversion kit) and can't wait for the summer now. My favorite new product was the "Let Me Dance" from Photo-Me although I think it will need some refinements to make it practical for the US marketplace.
As an exhibitor (on the bottom floor nonetheless) I was disappointed with what appeared to be thinner crowds on our lower level as opposed to the crowds on the top floor. I am pleased that the show is returning to Las Vegas again. We had some issues with union staffing with our booth set up and I had heard that others also had issues; these types of issues have never happened in Las Vegas.
Ok, is it my imagination or is the "editor" post completely nonsensical? what in blu blazes are you trying to say? Spit it out boy!
As an exhibitor of both the ASI and AMOA every year for many years, I feel we only need one show. Our industry has shrunk but the amount of trade shows have not. These shows do not warrant the cost of attending. At least if their was one main show a year as a manufacturer we would almost always have new product to show. And if the Operator knows they will see new product they may put more effort in attending. Unfortunately their are organizations that depend on these shows for support.
Note: The user logging in as editor is not the RePlay editor but the editor of The Stinger Report.
Were you even at this show "Editor"? The ASI had quality buyers and good sales for all that had good product to sell. Do you have any knowledge of the last time ASI co-located with N&B? It was a disaster. All of coin-op's best ignoring the coin-op show and walking around in a drunken stupor oogling models at N&B. You need to understand an issue before commenting on it. But then again, why start now, you never researched an issue before printing it in the Stinger either.
how come everyone is anonymous?
What was the original topic?
coin-op is a dying business, fellas.
As an exhibitor I feel the show was pretty well visited. The location in downtown Chicago with all the traffic jams, weather and parking problems should be avoided in the future. There is a new exhibition building going up in Schaumburg, IL that should be of interest to the ASI organization in the future. Good location from O’Hare, good parking, good Restaurants and Hotels in the area. Keep Illinois as one of the stops, but keep it away from Downtown Chicago.
The Coin-Op(Amusement) industry is far from dead just re-aligning itself for a brighter future.
Pat
Hey editor,
If there were 10,000 Outrun 2's shipped, how many were shipped in the US. Not that the Outrun 2 is a bad game, but it is kinda funny that there are probably only 700-1000 here in the US.
We are concerned about he state of the industry here, but you are giving facts for the world.
editor said...
>Oh here we go again – another >individual announces the immanent >death of arcade!
*new anon poster*
It may not be dead, but there's little life left to it. Not to recognize that is absurd. I worked for manufacturers from 87-200?. Even when I started back in '87 the sales guys would talk about the "good old days" when everything sold in 100K (unit)increments.
It's been a long painful dying. It may never die completely, but comatose isn't much of an alternative is it?
Are there still opportunities? I imagine so, but they seem to becoming fewer and fewer don't they?
I enjoyed the industry and regret it's decline, but don't pretend it hasn't.
Off topic....
How long has it been now since Malibu Grand Prix on El Camino and Wolfe Rd was THE testing site for the industry?
El Camino and Wolfe? Wasn't that always just Sunnyvale Golfland? They still test equipment from what few manufacturers are remaining in the Silicon Valley.
>El Camino and Wolfe? Wasn't that >always just Sunnyvale Golfland?
DOH! Of course you're right.
>They still test equipment from >what few manufacturers are >remaining in the Silicon Valley.
Let's see, Capcom, until recently Namco, oh yeah, that simulator group and I think maybe one more?
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