In the Eastern Idaho town of Rigby, Squealers Fun Park is set to open at the end of May, according to new owner Kent Hansen. East Idaho News said Hansen purchased the property last fall after it had been closed for a year. Go-karts and mini-golf are the anchors of the fun park, but the business is being geared toward the new 8-acre RV park they’ve been building, which will be opened as Yellowstone Lakeside RV Park & Campground. It’ll have 105 spaces for campers to experience Squealers. Hansen also owns Snake River RV Park in Idaho Falls. “It will…
Author: Matt Harding
Industry veteran Dale Lazar of H. Hazar & Son, Inc., is asking friends to vote for a photo of his that was submitted to a contest put on by Israel’s Department of Diaspora Affairs. (You can see the photo on their Facebook page, called World Zionist Organization, and vote by liking it here.) Voting concludes on May 10 at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Hundreds of photos were submitted from 47 countries and five continents, Lazar reports, and only 30 were selected. “My photo entry captures a group of kindergarten religious school students at a consecration ceremony on Simchat Torah at…
“Powering up for reopening” in the coming week is Cinergy, the Texas-based movie entertainment center chain with locations in Amarillo, Copperas Cove, Midland, Odessa and Tulsa, Okla. As both states have partially opened for business, so too will Cinergy. The cinemas in all Texas locations will open this Friday, May 8, at the state’s required 25% occupancy (bowling, games and other attractions remain closed to comply with the state’s “Phase One” protocols). The company’s Oklahoma location will open Monday, May 11, at 50% occupancy in the cinema. Oklahoma also permits Cinergy’s bowling alley and arcade to operate when they reopen.…
Scandia Family Fun Center in Sacramento, Calif., opened its outdoor mini-golf and batting cages this Monday, May 4. According to CBS Sacramento, the county reported that as long as the facility is able to demonstrate strict social distancing among non-household members and maintain sanitation of equipment between users, they can open. General manager Brian Nichols said all customers will have to wear masks, but it was time to get back in business. “We’ve got bills to pay. We’ve got employees who were not scheduled to work,” he said. “They’ve got bills to pay and some of them have not been…
As of now, IAAPA Expo Europe 2020 is still on for this September in London, reports the association. They’ll be confirming the status of the event on June 15. “Given the COVID-19 outbreak is a rapidly evolving situation and the fact that IAAPA Expo Europe is scheduled to take place about five months away in September, IAAPA has not yet made any changes to the plan,” they wrote on their website. They also noted the final exhibitor payment deadline has been extended to June 15. You can visit www.iaapa.org/COVID-19 to learn more about the association’s resources, and keep up to…
The new Consumer Choice in Payment Coalition has recently formed with a broad spectrum of consumer representatives and businesses committed to preserving the right of U.S. consumers to pay with cash. As RePlay recently reported, the new group has AMOA and the National ATM Council among its members, and is stressing that cash poses no more health and safety risks than credit cards or cell phones. Among the coalition’s top national legislative priorities is supporting passage of the Payment Choice Act of 2019 (H.R. 2650). The group says the bill, introduced in Congress last year by Rep. Donald M. Payne…
In the coming months, Hamster Corporation will be adding a handful of Data East classic games to its Arcade Archives collection on the Nintendo Switch. According to Nintendo Life, those games include BurgerTime (1982), the top-down racer Burnin’ Rubber (1982), the sci-fi game Darwin 4078 and the beat ’em up Trio The Punch: Never Forget Me (1990). The titles were confirmed during the Japanese company’s recent Arcade Archiver livestream. No release dates were provided.
Despite a reported 67,000 U.S. deaths due to the coronavirus, around half of the 50 states have begun allowing some businesses to reopen, with obvious restrictions like social distancing. From Alaska to West Virginia, around 15 states now allow limited seating at restaurants, while some like Oklahoma, North Dakota and Texas have also opened movie theaters. (The New York Times put together an interactive page where you can get more details and stay up to date.) That list is bound to grow in the days and weeks ahead, despite the fact that virus infections show no real proof of abating.…
In a recent Raw Thrills Report, the manufacturer let customers know they’re “fully staffed and ready to hit the ground running as markets all over the world reopen.” They said they have every game in stock, and are putting the finishing touches on their new 2020 releases. The company also sent out a bunch of photos of its team diligently working from home. In other Raw Thrills-related news, the CoinUp team, which handles Big Buck HD, is continuing to wave the monthly service fee and software upgrade fee on the game for the month of May. The credit will automatically…
Bowling alleys around St. George, Utah, have started to reopen recently as the governor announced the state will be moving to a reduced coronavirus alert level. Dixie Bowl and Billiards opened April 22 under limited hours, according to the St. George News. Sunset Lanes opened as well. Both are upping sanitization and running at about half capacity. Sunset Lanes has 20 lanes, and the health department recommends they can run with five people per lane. After staggering lane usage, that means they’re down to 10 lanes and 50 people total. As soon as a lane is closed out, the ball…