Elton Games have just received deposits for two Elton Derby’s for Kazakhstan, the nine player games will be installed later this summer in shopping centres in the capital city Astana and Almaty. The Horse and Camel 9 player games are the latest  to be purchased by the “AGAT” Asia company for their operations, after a 9 player Kentucky Horse Derby was installed into the Babylon Magic Park games zone at the Mega Shopping Centre in  Almaty at the end of 2006.

Elton Games Limited are the manufactures and sellers of competitive group amusement games. Our exclusive products include the operator controlled Elton Derby and the 6 Player Automatic Derby.  Established in 1962 in North West, England we have installed  more than 400 games in over 50 countries worldwide.  Elton's existing customers are operators of Amusement Parks and Family Entertainment Centres.  Some of the World Famous locations with Elton Products include; Circus Circus in Las Vegas, Warner Brothers Movie World in Madrid, Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Alton Towers in the UK.

EMBED, a leading provider of Debit Card and Point of Sale Systems for the amusement and family entertainment industry, announces the company’s achievement of 100 sites utilizing their award winning system in the US market.  “We are delighted to have reached this milestone in such a short timeframe,” comments Mark Easte, General Manager for Embed USA.  “The unmatched benefits delivered by the Embed System, underscored by the quality of our products and services, have been recognized and welcomed by locations from coast to coast.” 

Embed’s 100th site was installed at the Orange Lake Resort in Kissimmee, FL.  Embed Systems are in use at each of the three game rooms located within the expansive Orange Lake complex and are operated by Power Play Amusements.   “Ciro Poma, the owner of Power Play, has positioned his company as a leading game operator in Florida.  We appreciate his continued business and look forward to working with the Power Play team on other projects,” added Mark Easte.  Power Play is headquartered in Kissimmee, FL and operates in numerous facilities in the region, including the Nickelodeon Family Suites in Orlando.

Embed’s US operation was established in late 2005 and today serves as the base for all installation and support services for North America.  “Our success in this market is driven by our experienced team and our commitment to building long term customer relationships,” says Merrik Keller, sales topper for Embed. “Our goal is to educate and be an ongoing resource for our customers on how to use the Embed System to drive sales and reduce operating costs.”  Embed products are used by both independent and chain operators including Fun Expedition, Chuck E. Cheese, Fun Factory, Celebration Station, Gattitown, Frankie’s Fun Parks, Stars & Strikes, Big Al’s, Cyber Quest, Action City, Ollie Koalas and Swaders Sports Park to name just a few.

About Embed:
With offices in Dallas, Texas and Perth, Australia, the Embed System is a total operating solution for any entertainment facility.  The Embed System allows for admissions control, cashless operation of games and attractions, retail, food and beverage sales, full prize redemption management, and integrated event scheduling.  For additional information on Embed in North America, contact Merrik Keller at 1-856-222-1811.  For other regions, contact Adam Steinberg at +61-8-9340 0100, email us at info@embed.com.au, or visit the company web site at www.embedcard.com

With new multiple product strategy and unique skill games cooperation

There were a lot of innovations to discover this year at ENADA primavera at the funworld trade show stand in Rimini. The game system manufacturer in Italy known for PHOTO PLAY presented itself for the first time as a multiple product company with multiple new products and a fresh market presence. funworld’s revolutionary cooperation with Microgame in the skill games sector was introduced as an absolute innovation.

The highlights

ENADA primavera 2008 was very successful for funworld, as Europe’s market leader in the touchscreen business was not only able to greet many visitors at the stand, but also report numerous direct orders. Sales after the fair have likewise gone well.

Although the key PHOTO PLAY brand continues to attract significant interest, the two new product brands, “BET-solutions” and “fun|select”, have also been very well received. BET-solutions offers the complete infrastructure for sports betting and fun|select introduces a choice of commercial products with proven game concepts. Above all the simple and attention-grabbing skill game “Stacker” from the fun|select product unit enthused visitors to the trade show.

“How well our new business divisions were received on the Italian market confirms once more to us that the step from a single to a multiple product company was the right one. With the new, innovative products we are able to further expand our pioneering role and accelerate our ambitious expansion plans more intensively,” Josef Öhlinger, funworld ag Chief Executive Officer is delighted.

New cooperation in the skill games sector

The presentation of the cooperation between funworld and Microgame, the leading provider of online games in Italy, was particular cause for enthusiasm. Through the creation of effective synergies in the skill games sector it is possible for the first time to transfer game content from an Internet platform to PHOTO PLAY terminals and vice versa. This makes the collaboration of the two most important players in the Italian market unique, which will have a sustainable impact on the entire branch.

 “We are very satisfied with our trade show presence, as our expectations were by far exceeded. We are particularly delighted about the major interest in the cooperation with Microgame and about the new skill games project. The first major customers have already made enquiries regarding exclusive distribution in their regions, which shows us we can anticipate the cooperation to be a great success,” emphasises Andrea Scampini, General Manager of funworld italy srl, with enthusiasm.

The exhibition company “Smile-Expo” invite you at amusement parks and attraction expo EAAPA-2008 which will be held 24-26th of March 2008 in IEC “Crocus Expo”, Pavillion 2, hall 5.
As a developing of amusement industry measure in Russia, the exhibition EAAPA-2008 will become the important event of the branch and already now we can talk about the success of it. 
At exhibition will be presented the vast spectrum of amusement equipment, innovative, creative and practical ideas which already can be used in Your business.
ItalPark, Lotprom, ODA, Karusel, KSIL, LNT-Centre, Alawar (“Igrokub”), SmartGames (SG-Pay) and many others from regions of Russia, the former Soviet republics and Europe will present their novelties.

In the context of EAAPA-2008 the congress will be held, concerning the urgent themes of amusement industry’s development in Russia.
 
After the first day in the largest amusement centre “Samolet” will be the reception dedicating to presentation of the exhibition. To congratulate exhibitors will come such groups “Stariy priyatel”, “Ogneopesnoorkestr” but also all comers can take part in bowling tournament and get the prize from EAAPA.

Anyone can visit the exhibition, ordering the ticket by tel.: + 7 495 380 03 10, registrate on website or buy it at entrance.

Dates, place and time:
Press-conference
March 24, conference hall B, 11.00
Inauguration
March 24, 12.00
Congress
March 24, conference hall B, 14.00
March 25, conference hall B, 11.00
Party
March 24, club “Samolet”, 19.30

The leading PlayCard System created by Sacoa, the largest FEC operator in Argentina, has always been a pioneer in the development of state-of-the-art technology to optimize the operation of Arcades, Family Entertainment Centers and Amusement Parks and has continuously taken debit card systems to new levels of performance, usefulness and sophistication.

The revolutionary PlayCard Wireless System launched in 2006 has been embraced by the industry for some time now and today it has become an every-day thing. Every customer using Sacoa for a project is installing the PlayCard Wireless System, because it offers inexpensive and fast installation since it is a simple and elegant solution that needs no wires run to or from the games or turnstiles (the information is transferred between the server and the controllers within the games through the Sacoa Access Points distributed through out the store)

Other innovations launched by Sacoa during the past years and now fully functional and adopted world-wide include the Sacoa POS (a full-blown POS terminal, with an extensible, user-definable and friendly touch-screen interface, capable not only of selling and recharging cards, but retail merchandise as well, while it allows payment in PlayCard credit, cash or regular credit cards) as well as the development of a set of tools for an easy plug-in Integration with other F&B POS Systems (the versatile plug-in enhanceable Sacoa PosServer allows customers to keep their in-house POS system and have it manage the operation of the Sacoa PlayCard System transparently, being able to cope with various custom requirements such as enabling payment by posting a transaction to a hotel guest account via their room key, automated downstream data injection to corporate data warehouses and accounting systems, etc.).