Coin-op holds its own at Bowl Expo

This year's International Bowl Expo, held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, was a great success all round, according to reports.

With 200-plus exhibitors representing everything from bowling shoes, bowling balls and so on, the coin-op industry was represented by a number of companies in the AAMA Pavilion at the expo, including Bay Tek Games, Benchmark, Dance Heads Recordings, Intercard, LAI Games, Sacoa and Stern Pinball, to name just a few.

Benchmark’s Rich Long noted that many of the large bowling operations are becoming FECs more and more. Additional ticket redemption games are being added as a means of attracting and entertaining more families and adding incremental sales/profits.