 | Entertainment Experts Purchases Colorado Operating Company; Steps Up Route Acquisitions Program
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The multistate amusement machine service provider said it has acquired the assets of Skill Game Enterprises Inc. The acquisition will expand the company's presence in Colorado Springs and southern Colorado...
Author: Nick Montano
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| New Jersey Schoolgirl Improvises Sidewalk-Based Internet Café
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The operating spirit is alive and well. Eleven-year-old Lucy Walkowiak opens pop-up Internet café to help neighbors in storm-battered Hoboken, NJ...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Superstorm Hits Vending And Amusements Hard; The Jersey Shore's Arcades And Boardwalks Are Lost
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Sandy has delivered a blow that will keep many businesses in the Northeast down for weeks, and will likely have a longer-lasting impact on the overall U.S economy. Cutting a wide swath affecting an estimated 20% of the U.S. population, Sandy impacted a possible larger percentage of vending and office coffee service operations serving business and industry, and coin machine routes providing music and games to public venues. Vending, OCS and coin-op industry revenue losses will be in the millions this week alone, and tens of millions in the months to come...
Author: by Nick Montano and Hank Schlesinger
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| South Carolina Sweeps Operators File Two More Lawsuits
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The suits charge that law enforcement violated the operators' rights by seizing machines that a local judge had previously declared legal...
Author: by Staff Reporter
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| DNA Concludes First U.S. Conference, Launches International Association
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The Digital Out-of-Home Interactive Entertainment Network Association, DNA for short, staged its first U.S. conference on Oct. 2-3. About 70 experts took part in the symposium that DNA hails a success...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| AMOA Honors Newly Retired Showman Bill Glasgow
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The Amusement and Music Operators Association's Andy Shaffer and Jack Kelleher present award to the celebrated trade show producer...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Hesch Program Raises $13,800 With Early Bird Drawing
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
AMOA's Wayne E. Hesch Scholarship program raised $13,800 through raffle ticket sales by the time the organization named two early winners on Sept. 24...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Operators Mount Legal Challenges To Sweepstakes Videogame Bans In Maryland, South Carolina
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Operators of sweepstakes videogames in two Eastern Seaboard states have filed lawsuits designed to block government prohibition of their equipment...
Author: by Staff Reporter
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| Shaffer Services Promotes Andy Shaffer To President
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Andy Shaffer has advanced to the presidency of Columbus, OH-based Shaffer Services. He has held a variety of posts with the family-owned business since 1990...
Author: Nick Montano
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| AMI Prize Farm Update Adds 2 New Games
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
New in the trivia category is Whack a Wabbit. Joining Prize Farm's Instant Tournament family is Darts Premium, a game based on 501...
Author: by Staff Reporter
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| Apple Industries Debuts Online Advisor For Photobooth Audit Emails
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Audit Report Emails sent to the operator by a wireless-enabled photobooth allows him to take control of service schedules, realize increases in efficiency of inventorying and reordering consumables, and track money with unprecedented precision and ease...
Author: Tim Sanford
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| Pro NFLers Compete On LAI Speed Of Light For Reliant Energy Charity
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Connor Barwin and Shaun Cody of the Houston Texans compete in a Speed of Light doubles match at a local Dave & Buster's...
Author: Tim Sanford
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| Timezone Funtasia Wins Award As Australian Tourist Attraction
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The Surfers Paradise Timezone store occupies some 54,000 square feet of floorspace, making it the largest indoor FEC in Australia and the biggest Timezone facility in the world...
Author: Tim Sanford
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| Incredible Technologies Begins Move On Friday; Servers Move On Monday, Oct. 22, And Will Be Offline For Short Period
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The maker of Golden Tee Golf and other coin-op videogames moves this week into a new corporate and manufacturing facility in Vernon Hills, IL. New space doubles IT's development and manufacturing capacity...
Author: Nick Montano
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| North Carolina Supreme Court Will Hear Sweepstakes Videogame Case On Oct. 17
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The constitutionality of a 2010 law banning sweepstakes videogames will be put to the test this week as the North Carolina Supreme Court hears arguments in two related cases...
Author: by Staff Reporter
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| PrimeTime Amusements Enhances Website
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Primetime.com currently offers more than 200 videos demonstrating new simulators and other arcade games, hosted by YouTube and providing information about them in English and Spanish...
Author: by Staff Reporter
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| Illinois Launches Video Lottery Program
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 10, October 2012
More than 270 legal, operator-run video lottery terminals were activated in 65 locations statewide at 11 a.m. on Oct. 9, with the prospect of thousands more locations joining the system in the months to come...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Lynnwood, WA, Anti-Gambling Ordinance Restricts Redemption, Too
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Facing complaints from parents that a 1970s anti-gambling ordinance is choking the redemption fun at a Chuck E. Cheese's, city council members try to modify the regulation with an amusement exemption...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Michigan Appeals Court Dismisses Constitutional Challenge To Smoking Ban
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
The state Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed against Michigan's 2010 statewide smoking ban by Boyd Cottrell, owner of a tavern in Warren...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| AMOA Elects Michigan Distributor John Pascaretti 2013-14 President
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Pascaretti will take the reins of the Amusement and Music Operators Association at the conclusion Amusement Expo in March. He will succeed Andy Shaffer...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Faulty Jukebox Linked To Bar Fire
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
An electrical malfunction in a wall-mounted jukebox (model and maker unknown) was identified as the cause of a fire at O'Leary's Grille in Hampton, NH...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Illinois Approves New Product By Video Gaming Technologies For VLT Market
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Video Gaming Technologies Inc. said it will begin installing its VEGA$ Jackpot$ product line in assorted locations across Illinois, now that the machine been approved...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Dave & Buster's Cancels IPO
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 10, October 2012
Citing unfavorable market conditions, D&B's CEO Steve King announced the IPO withdrawal on Oct. 4, a day before the stock was to begin selling on the Nasdaq...
Author: by Staff Reporter
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| Pennsylvania: IRS And Troopers Raid 197 Locations, Seize 400 Video Pokers
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2012
Nearly 125 Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement officers joined an unspecified number of state troopers and Internal Revenue Service agents in the raids...
Author: Marcus Webb
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| Megatouch 2013 Ion Software Is Available For Download
Issue: Vol. 52, No. 10, October 2012
Update has 12 titles described as "addictive," and eight of them are compatible with Tournamaxx. Educational attract screens are designed to lure bar patrons to games...
Author: Nick Montano
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