Intercard has brought on Michael Dishian as its chief financial officer. Dishian is a corporate finance expert with a Big Four accounting background, bringing more than 30 years of experience as an accountant, controller and CFO for large companies. He has worked for multiple tech companies, manufacturers and distributors including Prism Medical U.S., Spatech Packaging Technologies, GatewayCDI and Corporate Express. With Intercard, Dishian will direct strategic planning and budget development, and supervise purchasing and manufacturing. Dishian is a long-time St. Louis resident, an Eagle Scout and an assistant scoutmaster with his local troop. He graduated from Drake University with a…
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Player One Amusement Group (P1AG) announced today (Dec. 20) the opening of brand new game rooms at OWA, Alabama’s newest amusement park on the Foley Beach Express in Foley, Ala. The game room is the latest addition to the park’s 520 acres of fun, and brings 50 amusement games and a variety of interactive redemption games. “As Alabama’s top entertainment attraction, we are always looking for new and enhanced options to offer our guests of all ages,” said Greg Rawls of Creek Indian Enterprises (managers of OWA). “P1AG is one of North America’s leading providers of amusement gaming and a…
As the year winds down, the folks at IAAPA are still plenty busy planning the next events for the industry. Coming up first is the IAAPA FEC Summit, hosted in Laguna Beach, Calif., from Jan 28-30. The Summit focuses on FEC operators, giving them a chance to learn new ideas about the business and connect with other owners and operators from around the world. Learn more here. Next, IAAPA heads to the Middle East for its EMEA Winter Forum in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. From Jan. 23-24 industry folks in the area will visit the newest leisure attractions including water…
For our bowling center readers, early bird registration and hotel discounts are available for 2018’s Bowling University, but time is slipping away to take advantage of the deals. Potential attendees must register by this Friday, Dec. 22, to qualify for the discounts. The Bowling Summit is a midwinter conference for proprietors, managers and bowling industry leaders where they can network and learn from top business professionals. The event will be held Jan. 14-18, 2018, in Phoenix. Speakers include thought leader Brian Moran, author of The 12 Week Year. Moran will share his five success disciplines and three high performance accelerators,…
The northern Texas FEC franchise Alley Cats announced another contract with Creative Works for a laser tag arena in its new expansion. On top of laser tag, the nearly 60,000-sq.-ft. center added rock climbing, bowling, a laser maze and more holes to its mini golf. Creative Works President Armando Lanuti aimed for a unique design at the Hurst, Texas, center. “They wanted to do a different theme for their second location, and they wanted to do something unique that really hadn’t been seen much in the laser tag side of things before,” said Lanuti. “So we did a really…
Shades of Sol Lipkin and Faith Guthrie, the most famous coin-op old timers to crack 100 years on the earth! We just now learned that Philadelphia patriarch Al Rodstein will be honored at his own 100th birthday party on Saturday, Jan. 27. The swank affair, set for the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla. will be produced by offspring and spouses Arlene, Jim, Jill, Howie and Marc, and invited guests will give the dude his due homage. Al’s been retired for many years now, but during his career in the biz, he was best known as founder and leader of…
The fourth Face 2 Face Entertainment Conference will be held February 20-22, 2018, at The Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs, Colo., and promises to enlighten, inspire and challenge. The F2FEC conference hosts — Rick Iceberg, Ben Jones, and George Smith — are industry veterans who feel that sharing information is vital to sustaining and improving one’s business. “This conference is for decision makers,” says Smith, president of Family Entertainment Group. Experienced owners and operators share best practices and have face-to-face interaction at F2FEC. Jones, a lender specializing in entertainment centers at Live Oak Bank adds, “F2FEC is a collaborative gathering…
2018 will start off with abounding educational opportunities at the annual EAG International and Visitor Attractions Expo in London from Jan. 16-18. The annual trade show, now in its ninth year, offers an educational program that’s an especially large draw for many attendees, as event organizer Karen Cooke explains: “This year, we’re particularly proud of our seminars. We’ve managed to engage some really interesting speakers on a diverse range of subjects. The show’s appeal is broader than at the outset, with more visitors from the wider leisure community, including play centers, holiday parks, stand-alone visitor attractions and sports facilities.” Adding…
Mickey Lynch, remembered by some long timers, as well as veterans of the old Atari Games, passed away the evening of Dec. 5 after being stuck by a hit and run driver in Fremont, Calif. The company’s last prexy, Dan Van Elderen, and others are beating the Atarian tom toms to gather Mickey’s former co-workers to a memorial being held Friday (Dec. 15) at Fremont’s Mission San Jose located at 43300 Mission Boulevard. The service begins at 9 a.m.
The IAAPA Expo was full of brand new games, from ticket redemption to classic arcade to futuristic VR. One of those, Tight Rope by Andamiro USA Corp., happens to tap into what makes a game great, regardless of genre or technology. Tight Rope challenges its players to take a high-wire unicycle ride with easy to learn, tough to master controls and incentivizing, skill-based ticket rewards. The entertaining game takes players through several high-wire adventures, complete with moving obstacles that become increasingly treacherous. Three courses – strung over a city, islands and ancient ruins – are open to the player, each…