Stern Pinball’s Pro Circuit Championship will be held March 21-22 in conjunction with an Arcade and Beer Festival at Lagunitas Brewing Company in Chicago. Partnering with eBay, the International Flipper Pinball Assn. and the Replay Foundation, the championship will feature the 20 highest ranked pinball players in the world competing for the Stern Pro Circuit Championship Belt, cash prizes and pinball glory. “We’ll have the best players in the world competing for the championship belt, prize money and a brand-new Stern Pinball machine,” said chairman and CEO Gary Stern. “This is a pinball festival not to be missed!” For the…
Author: Matt Harding
Andy’s Altitude 1291, a new bowling entertainment center located in Midwest City, Okla., recently installed a 24-player Helios2 laser tag system at the facility. “This is our second facility and we felt that laser tag was a must-have attraction due to our target market and success with the attraction at our first facility,” said owner Kyle Allison. “Erik (Guthrie) and the team (at Zone Laser Tag) have been great to work with in all our projects. Erik’s passion for the industry shows in his commitment to taking care of his customers.” For more information, visit www.altitude1291.com and www.lasertag.com.
Held Feb. 19-20 at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J., NJAA is hosting its East Coast Gift & Variety Show, featuring suppliers specializing in plush, novelties, licensed toys, gifts, rides, games and much more. The purpose of the trade show is to provide close-to-home buying and business opportunities for Jersey area operators. The show floor opens at 11 a.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. Thursday. The event also includes special seminars like a ride regulation briefing and panel discussion featuring Paul Lamberti and Patrick Gallagher, and a customer service session with Michael Forcella of Ocean County College. The two-day event…
Joseph Lee, president of Technovation Data, Inc. (TDI) in Ellicott City, Md., was recently appointed as the National ATM Council’s newest board member, effective at the start of 2020. “NAC and its leadership are excited to welcome Joseph Lee to the NAC Board at this important time for the U.S. independent ATM sector,” said NAC Chair George Sarantopoulos. “Joseph’s energy and spirit of camaraderie combined with many years of hands-on, real world ATM industry experience and expertise will prove invaluable to guiding the organization forward.” Lee began his career in the ATM industry nearly 20 years ago, and has served…
IAAPA’s Leadership Summit event will be held March 11-13 at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles, offering networking opportunities and more for industry leaders. Prospective attendees need to register by Feb. 28. The member price is $1,150 and the non-member price is $1,550. This year’s summit includes more keynote speakers and panel discussions than ever before, IAAPA said. The speakers include Jill Estorino, executive vice president of global marketing and sales for Disney Parks; Peter van Roden, senior vice president of global themed entertainment at Warner Bros.; and Jake Wood, co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon, a non-profit that recruits,…
Party Center Software recently released its 2019 Online Party Booking Study, which you can download here. “We’re thrilled to bring you insights using the data we’ve gathered from our online booking application over the past year to help you on the path to FEC success,” PCS wrote to its newsletter subscribers. Year-after-year, they say, the demand for party booking venues continues to increase, and the company wants to be a part of helping their customers keep up with the market. Visit www.partycentersoftware.com to learn more information.
Bowlero Corp has teamed up with Skillz, a mobile games platform, to bring the world of esports to its facilities, according to the companies. The “first-of-its-kind” mobile esports partnership connects the 30 million registered Skillz players with Bowlero’s 300 bowling centers. Touch Mechanics, the U.K.-based studio that has been creating Skillz-powered games since 2014, will launch a new Bowlero-branded mobile game called Strike! By Bowlero. That game will merge the physical and digital worlds, “extending the Bowlero bowling experience beyond physical locations while bringing sponsored esports tournaments to the Bowlero bowling centers.” Bowlers will also be able to compete for…
Over the past few years, Apple Industries and its Face Place photo booths have helped operators grab a part of the Valentine’s Day excitement, and 2020 is no different. To help photo booth owners increase sales, they will automatically display Valentine’s Day art to customers as they walk by the booths. “This enticement becomes more effective in the lead-up to Valentine’s Day and works like a revenue magnet on Valentine’s Day itself,” the company reported. The updates for artwork are loaded directly into the machine’s Smile 2.0 software, so operators don’t have to worry about making their machines ready for…
Starting today, Feb. 14, and running through March 14, LAI Games will offer customers a free, limited-edition t-shirt for any order over $500 on their online parts store – www.parts.laigames.com. Qualified purchasers will also be entered into a drawing to win an LAI Games prize pack, featuring a water bottle, designer lanyards, koozies, bottle openers and 25 percent off their next parts purchase. “Our design team created a really cool, retro-style t-shirt for our staff to wear at IAAPA, and our customers loved them,” said Allison Timberlake, the company’s marketing and ecommerce manager. “So, we decided to give them as…
Sega’s classic character Sonic the Hedgehog first appeared in arcades in 1991 in the video game Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car. Many platforms and iterations later – Sonic is back once again! A new movie, released in theaters today, Feb. 14, stars Jim Carrey as Dr. Ivo Robotnik, James Marsden as Tom Wachowski and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic. Simply titled Sonic the Hedgehog, the film follows a small-town police officer (Marsden) who must help the small, blue and fast hedgehog defeat an evil genius (Carrey) who wants to do experiments on it. Reviews are already in and…