Andamiro Predicts Record Earnings For SpongeBobs Pineapple Arcade Game

GARDENA, CA -- Nickelodeon's durable cartoon celebrity has starred in a series of popular coin-operated games. Now he's making a return appearance in Andamiro USA's brand-new prize redemption piece, SpongeBob's Pineapple Arcade, and the amusement manufacturer boasts that the new model is maintaining the line's tradition.

Andamiro USA president Satinder Bhutani reported that "We placed our two-player test unit on location five weeks ago, in an FEC with all of the latest and greatest available today, and I'm happy to confirm that the only game beating it is a six-player piece." SpongeBob's Pineapple Arcade had a $1,975 weekly average over the five-week test, Bhutani said.

Andamiro USA vice-president Drew Maniscalco, who has been involved in four of the five SpongeBob SquarePants arcade games that have entered the market, observed that SpongeBob is an "evergreen" licensed character. The amiable poriferan's enthusiastic and diverse fan base covers a very wide demographic, he said. "I have seen players of all ages playing the game!"

A successful arcade license, three of the five SpongeBob legacies sold more than 1,000 units, according to Maniscalco. He anticipates that Andamiro's adaptation will more than equal that performance.

SpongeBob's Pineapple Arcade is a tokens-and-cards pusher in which the player rolls tokens down the playfield into moving pineapple targets. The pineapples (which resemble SpongeBob's famous sea-pineapple domicile) drop tokens, cards and bonus tokens onto the playfield.

Collectible cards also are distributed around the playfield; the player attempts to knock these cards off a support tray. There are nine collectible cards. A player can trade cards for tickets, or hold them until all nine have been collected, a feat rewarded with a super bonus.

"The players are going to go crazy when they see these cards," Maniscalco predicted. They are beautifully designed, he said, and are imprinted with fun facts about the characters in the SpongeBob saga. Andamiro reports that it is taking orders now for shipment in August.

Based in Gardena, CA, Andamiro USA is a subsidiary of Korea's Andamiro Entertainment, founded in 1992.