Player One Sold

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In a major move in the North American arcade market, Japan's GENDA acquires Player One Amusement Group and all of their location operations.

GENDA Acquires Player One Amusement Group - Arcade Heroes

Japanese owned GENDA has acquired Toronto-based arcade operator and distributor Player One Amusement Group.

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[luch]

interesting , wonder if any changes will occur ?

 

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They will start manufacturing Japanese arcade games in the US.

 

[Hammerhead]

Maybe the rec room pins will actually get some maintenance

 

[SheepyChris]

Maybe the rec room pins will actually get some maintenance

Unfortunately no.

Real talk, most RRs have their tables off-limits to their technicians (usually college students anyways) so it's up to the manager to maintain them. Add the fact that they don't earn well and ordering a simple set of flipper plungers can eat two weeks worth of revenue leads to practically no motivation to keep them up to a competitive standard.

On the original topic, it's very hard to tell if Genda will be interested in continuing P1AG's current operations and business model given they're actively working on mini claw route locations and rumors claim they want to compete with Round 1 down in the States... It's a weird time in the amusement industry.