Kevin Williams, founder and director of KWP Ltd. and RePlay contributor, will be presenting a seminar at the upcoming Asia Amusement and Attractions Expo (AAA2016). He will be featured in a panel covering the intricacies of theme park construction for senior execs. Kevin’s segment will specifically focus on digital out-of-home entertainment, virtual reality, immersion and other new technologies. These are subjects he’s well versed on due to his work in the industry both consulting and writing. The AAA2016 takes place on March 7-8 at the Zhu Jiang Hotel in Guangzhou near Hong Kong.
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Bay Tek’s collaboration with mobile app developer Zymo Interactive is now shipping. The football title, Gridiron Blitz, has a 60″ monitor and a pressure-sensitive action pad that allows players to run, jump and tackle their way through various football drills in this fast-paced game. If they beat the clock on three consecutive levels, players can win a jackpot ticket prize. “We are happy to offer this great interactive, sports game to the masses. It is a beautiful machine that will make a great addition to your other sports games,” said Holly Hampton, Director of Marketing and Innovation at Bay Tek. For…
Apple Industries reported an earning spike for its photo booth operators over the Valentine’s Day weekend of up to 110 percent higher than average. The company attributes part of weekend’s success to their Smile 2.0 operating system and its continual, real-time updates. “Apple continually downloads new art packages to networked Face Place equipment in order to drive more holiday business,” said CEO Allen Weisberg. “There’s a popular holiday practically every month of the year, and we support them with new graphics from New Year’s Eve to Valentine’s Day to Saint Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day,…
The Nevada Experiment Enacting the Ultimate Oxymoron of “Skill-Based Gambling” by Tom Fricke [Editor’s note: The state of Nevada appears to be pivoting toward an environment that is friendly to a more entertaining style of “skill gaming.” However, the jury is still out on whether the state’s new legal framework will successfully facilitate a new generation of games that appeal to younger visitors (such as the much-sought-after Millennials).] Most states that have regulated casinos leave room in their laws for unregulated games for prizes. Nevada doesn’t. Unregulated gambling isn’t a statewide crime under the state’s criminal code. It’s a statewide…
Can Amusement Games Save Gaming? Recent Changes to Nevada Gaming Laws Will Lead to Opportunity, Confusion and Potentially Disaster for Some in the Amusement Industry by Bob Cooney Coin-op has struggled to hold onto relevance since the heddy days of the video game boom, while the market for home video games has exploded into a multi-billion-dollar industry. As a result, the number of successful coin-op releases, and the production volume of each, have been in decline. With the recent passing of legislation permitting skill-based gambling devices in casinos in Nevada, some members of the amusement industry are presented with unprecedented…
Maximizing Game Room Revenue “How to Do It Right and Make More Money!” –– Part One by Frank Seninsky, President/CEO Amusement Entertainment Management (AEM) & Alpha-Omega Amusements & Sales In the many classes I teach on family entertainment center design and game and attractions layout, clear direction is given on the reasons why following a dozen critical steps always translates into making more money. Yet, time and time again, I see game rooms in which little to no attention is paid to these simple evident truths. Do you really want to increase your game and total facility revenue and bottom…
In Search of the New School Gameroom Our Digital Addiction & Its Adverse Affect on FEC Spending By Randy White, CEO/White Hutchison Leisure & Learning Group Since the dawn of the 21st century, 56K dial-up speeds, along with the rise of Windows 98, desktop browser integration, AOL and broadband access, all started to change everything. This was then followed by the Internet being joined by social media and the smartphone to give rise to what is known as the Triple Revolution. As a result, we find that there is a strong correlation between our growing digital compulsion (and inability to extricate ourselves…
Beloved Standard with a Twist Barron’s New Takes on Air Hockey & Foosball Are a Coin-Op Shot in the Arm By Kate Miller, RePlay Contributor Greg Bacorn was playing four-way paper football with his business partners around a dining room table when the idea for Barron Games’ flagship QuadAir Hockey table was hatched. It was nearly five years ago when he began to reinvent a standard air hockey table for four player competition. The initial response to the idea was one of confusion and that it would be difficult to understand how to play. “Everyone said, ‘No way, you can’t…