Industry stalwart Jean-Luc Dieudonne has rejoined Sega Amusements Europe Ltd as Sales and Shipping Manager after a two-year absence from the industry. [more information]
After installing a good number of WEBSECTOR machines in the European market, it's time to connect these machines to an INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL and REGIONAL Highscore network called Highscore.net. [more information]
A large distributor in Asia has offered Highway Entertainment nearly 200 redemption machines for sale. The sample list and prices are displayed in the more information link. [more information]
John Bollom, managing director of the Amusement Equipment Co Ltd (AMECO), has been confirmed as the new chairman of Amusement Trades Exhibitions Ltd (ATE). [more information]
Incredible Technologies have announced a live tournament to be Held at the Mall of America in April on Saturday, April 13. 23 operators in the state registered nearly 600 Golden Tee Fore! 2002 games in the online qualifier. [more information]
Two young Austrian ladies were awarded 1st and 3rd places at the International Photo Play Games Idea Competition 2002 and came away with a combined total of € 10,000. [more information]
In the aftermath of 2 big trade shows the Japanese based AOU & the American based ASI. Our Product section now features over 30 new machine that were on display at these trade shows. [more information]
The rumours of Jurassic Park III kits being available were this week dispelled by Konami with an announcement that due to licensing agreements, all Jurassic Park III games will be sold in cabinets only. [more information]
ATE, organisers of the third annual EuroTechno Conference, have released further details of the one-day prestige Euromat event branded as ‘the definitive technology-focussed conference for the European coin-op amusements industry. [more information]
Brent Electronic has retained the Leisure Link account for the third consecutive year. The agreement covers the supply of general spares and components for approximately 90 thousand machines. [more information]
Ham On Rye Technologies, Inc., recently announced that Drew Pawlak has joined the Sales and Marketing Team for the award-winning VR Performance Theater. [more information]
Namco Europe has appointed Covielsa as its new distributor for Spain. The agreement was confirmed at a recent meeting held at Covielsa's head office in Lleida. [more information]
Cosmic Video in the UK is sponsoring a tournament on Merit's Tournamaxx system from the 12th of March to the 30th of april called "High Rollers", which will feature a back to back tournament structure. [more information]
LAI Leisure and Allied Industries have released a new Ball Roll-down game called "Pharaohs Pyramid". The player's goal is to reach the top of the Pyramid, by rolling balls through a selection of 8 entry slots. [more information]
The popular fighting game Tekken just added its name to the ever-growing list of games that are making their way to the big screen with a reported budget of $60million. [more information]
Namco Limited, Sega Corporation and Nintendo Co., Ltd. recently announced they have joined forces to develop a 3D computer graphics board for next-generation arcade game system. [more information]
Sega Corp has recently announced that it expected to hit its 2001/02 earnings targets as its game software rode the crest of the booming global game console market. [more information]
In a bizarre turn of events last week the Greek government announced in parliament on Friday 22nd of February, that they would be looking to put a stop to the continued problem of illegal gambling by banning anything that takes a coin, affecting some 60,000 machines. [more information]
The Copyvend CD Duplicator is a "self service" CD duplicating machine. The Duplicator provides duplicate CD's in CD-R format at 16x (writing speed) in 3-6 minutes. [more information]
Advanced shipment of Virtua Athletics Software is now in stock. Using Sega's GD Rom system, this upgrade kit comes with header, player instructions and software. [more information]
Having used the latest motion capture system, "Gaelco Football" is set to have the most realistic movements in the market. Choose from three difference soccer leagues whilst controlling the players movements with your hands and feet. [more information]
Photo Play after extensive market research and promising trial runs of their touch-screen game terminals since autumn of last year, is set to launch their games network in Poland. [more information]
TAB is set to release their latest product, MAX FIRE, a new digital wall-mounted Jukebox which includes Online Music Subscription, Online Music Shop & Online Terminal Management. [more information]
Being one of the most received games at ATEI, Gaelco's ATV Track, a Quad game of adventure, risk and competition designed off an actual ATV Track, is being released next month with already the first production runs sold out. [more information]
Arcade Planet, Inc., designer and marketer of skill-based games and technology to the Internet and to traditional entertainment markets, today announced that it will build an online games site for Palace Entertainment. [more information]
Eurogmi next activity is a seminar on the "Fundementals of Gaming." This seminar will feature professionals who discuss being successfull in the gaming and gambling. [more information]
Flipz is the exciting new coin toss-pusher combo game that will keep coins flipping. Players use the shooter to toss coins at one of the 64 targets. [more information]
The King of Route 66 - the long awaited sequel to 18-Wheeler. After a prototype being shown at the ATEI the response was so great that initial production was sold out after the first day of the show. [more information]
After months of speculation, ICE has emerged as the new owner of UK manufacturer Cromptons which sees the company continuing to manufacturer pushers under its existing name. [more information]
Sega Amusement Europe's latest gun game the Maze of the Kings was recently shown at the ATEI to great acclaim. The game has been designed to create all the fast paced action of the standard shooting game, but with the clever use of a mythical staff instead of a gun. [more information]
Playboy, the most popular men's magazine in history, is now a new pinball machine, brought to you by Stern Pinball, Inc. and Playboy Enterprises. [more information]
The third annual EuroTechno Conference will take place on Tuesday 14 May at the Renaissance Hotel, Amsterdam. The one-day prestige event, entitled ‘The Definitive Technology Focussed Conference' [more information]
The international casino industry demonstrated a unique ability to combine hospitality with fund raising when 450 diners attended the second annual ICE Ball in London. [more information]
The world's largest maker of athletic shoes and clothing, filed suit in federal court recently against Sega and its advertising agency claiming their ad was an unfair copy of an earlier Nike campaign. [more information]
Visit the Playtime Amusement Centre in George Street Sydney to view Tecmo's latest game, Monster Farm Jump - release date is expected end of March. [more information]
Brent Electronic and NetShift have announced what they are describing as "a strategic development and marketing agreement" to service the ever growing internet kiosk market. [more information]
Wolfgang Held, a SILVERBALL user from Werdohl/Germany, won the VW Golf which was raffled off just before christmas. Wolfgang's name was drawn out of many thousands of e-mail addresses. [more information]
A major new force in the international parks and attractions industry is about to be formed following the creation of a joint venture initiative between ATD Limited & the EAASI. [more information]
The dates for the (Theme Parks & Fun Centres Show), has been announced. This year's event will be the 8th edition of the trade show and will be held in Dubai World Trade Centre from April 23-25, 2002. [more information]
Amongst the new machine making their debut at the recent ATEI trade show in London a dedicated £25 machine AWP was launched by "Project", the machines name "Nifty 50" [more information]
Sega Amusements Europe Ltd have appointed Machines Games Automatics s.a. – MGA of Barcelona, Spain as the exclusive distributor of Sega video amusement product in Spain with immediate effect. [more information]
Exhibitors and visitors have gone on record as saying that ATEI 2002 provided much need direction, and that the industry left ATEI in far more confident and buoyant mood about the year ahead. [more information]
The Austrian company Photoplay in conjuction with Germany's games portal www.flipside.de recently began beta testing of it's first online game "Der Herr der Kelten". [more information]
With the previous shipment of King of Fighters 2001 selling out quickly, we have another 48pc shipment arriving this week. Price is $570.00usd. [more information]
A smaller but strong video lineup was the general feeling at last week's ATEI Show with plenty of quality releases to come over the next few months. [more information]
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