Author: RePlay Editor

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…

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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…

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