The Park Avenue Open Day in London, UK, got underway yesterday with stone-splitting sunshine that suited Electrocoin’s traditional Greek-style barbeque nicely.
Click here to see a selection of images from the Open Day.
Some new product was on show from JNC, UDC and Crown Leisure, among others and both Derek Horwood for UDC and Kevin Weir for Electrocoin reported a satisfactory outcome to the day and passed on news of a successful start to the year for the many UK seaside arcade owners who called in for the Open Day.
A theme of the day was discussions of the possible ramifications of the UK government’s recent changes to its gaming law. Bacta president Gabi Stergides said: “We are naturally disappointed in not getting a lift in Cat C and B3 machines or any of the Cat D redemption games, but we are optimistic because they could have imposed mandatory player tracking or player time limits which would have been game over for the industry.”
He is also pleased about the decision to slash the FOBT stake from £100 to £2. “I think that the toxicity that has been associated with the industry because of FOBTs has been eliminated. It flavoured every conversation to do with gaming machines.”
BACTA’s Charitable Trust ran a raffle with prizes including a 30ins television, hampers and bottles of wine and champagne, raising almost £1000 to be shared between the organisations four chosen charities, Royal Marsden, Great Ormond Trust Hospital and the Teenage Cancer Trust.
A full report of the day will appear in our July InterGame.
