Operator Jokers continues to lead the amusement market in Malta and Gozo with its redemption machines and amusement games.

There are now over 200 games in the company’s flagship 1,280sq.m family entertainment centre in Malta. The venue attracts 4,000 people a day during weekends and an average of 2,000 per day during the week.

The whole industry in Malta is set to change in January when the island changes its currency to the euro. Malta\‘s amusement industry, keen to keep a one coin, one game policy, has a choice of using a 50c coin or a €1 coin for a game. The latter will increase the game price by 56 per cent while using a 50c coin will decrease income per play by 12 per cent.

Some operators believe that a price increase will add to the problems that the amusement industry has seen in the past few years, while others feel that the price per game needs to be increased to reflect the need for Malta\‘s amusement industry to be able to afford more new technology.