A new shipment of Virtua Striker 3 kits is arriving into Australia this coming week. There is limited stock available @$3,795aud plus GST. [more information]
Sega has demonstrated a number of games for Palm OS handhelds during a keynote address at the PalmSource Japan conference. The games were developed specifically for the presentation using Metrowerk's Codewarrior. [more information]
SHENZHEN is prepared to take on Hong Kong's Disneyland as it boosts its efforts to attract tourists to the Special Economic Zone. The city will open the second phase of its Happy Valley theme park next month. [more information]
One of Australia's largest Pinball Auction/Expo is coming this May, to be held at Fox Studios, Sydney. Very rare pinballs, jukeboxes and other amusement equipment will be auctioned, with variety stalls selling pinball smemorabilia, parts, art and T-Shirts. [more information]
uWin will be headquartered in Los Angeles, California and will service the California market. Heading up sales for uWin will be Don Singer. [more information]
The Embed card system is a total business management and marketing tool offering cashless operation, a customer driven loyalty program, transaction automation, customer tracking and accounting. [more information]
Still in it's development phase, Banpresto has joined forces with Mitsubishi in order to create "Gundam Pilot Academy" (tentative title). What has been developed so far was on show at the AOU 2002. [more information]
Dutch parliamentary elections will be held on May 15th. In the run-up to the elections, a special election game "Verkiezingsspel" will be available on linked Photo Play terminals as of mid-April. [more information]
Recently Gary Stern and his family made a visit to the Playboy Mansion where Gary presented a Stern PLAYBOY pinball machine to Hugh Hefner. [more information]
Konami's latest driving game, XTrial is now available in software update form where you can upgrade your Thrill Drive PCBs into the latest game. [more information]
Big Or Small is a brand new dice-based gaming machine from Game Master System. Three dices are thrown together after the player chooses a number they hope the dices will add up to. [more information]
Namco Co. shares rose 5.7 percent on expectations that Namco may develop video-game software with Nintendo Co. The Tokyo-based company also appointed Kyushiro Takagi, Namco's vice president, to be the new president. [more information]
Details of the first European Casino Summit have been announced. The event will take place across 27th and 28th June at The Martinez Hotel in Cannes, France. [more information]
Namco America Inc. announces ATV TRACK, a 1-player Quad game of adventure, risk and competition. The adventure takes place in the mysterious Amazon and is due to hit the trail in May. [more information]
Initially previewed at this years ATEI to much acclaim. Shootout Pool is scheduled to be manufactured in early May. An ergonomically designed control unit which gives the player the real feel of playing either 8 ball or 9 ball pool. [more information]
Stern Pinball has appointed Bergmann Automaten as its exclusive importer/distributor of the company's pinball machines in the country of Germany. The PLAYBOY pinball machine will be the first Stern product to be promoted by Bergmann. [more information]
This year alone 1.4 million positive games were played in Holland. In March a tournament was held in Tilburg's Willem II stadium to determine the Netherlands' Photo Play champion. [more information]
Global video game publisher Infogrames has entered into a distribution deal with Konami to distribute and market throughout Japan select future titles published by Infogrames Japan KK. [more information]
The one of the biggest trade shows for amusement and gaming machines in Taiwan, The GTI Expo, is slated to take place in Hall 2, of the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) throughout July 18~21. [more information]
Yesterday's response from the DCMS to Sir Alan Budd's Gambling Review Body report has unveiled that the UK gaming and gambling industries are about to benefit from relaxed legal restrictions. [more information]
Sega Amusements Europe Ltd in conjunction with Sega-AM2 the R&D company responsible for developing The King of Route 66 have unveiled a dedicated web site for the game. [more information]
Responding to the demands of arcade owners and amusement game route operators, Amusement Solutions launched two new products, called "GateKeyper" & "DataTrieve." [more information]
On April 3, 2002 Incredible Technologies will release 7 new Golden Tee Fore! courses. The new courses will add an international favour to this very popular sporting game. [more information]
Standing by their commitment to build 3-4 new products per year, BayTek has launched two new games for spring. The first spring time game is BayTek's Lite‘Em Up, which is a game designed with an 8-sided playfield and housed in a unique 3-dimensional cabinet. [more information]
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]
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