COIN-OP NEWS
Helix Leisure expands
company portfolio
Helix Leisure has announced the acquisition of Booking
Boss. Booking Boss, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, pro-
vides cloud-based ticketing, reservation, and POS solutions to
businesses looking to modernize and provide 24/7 booking
capabilities.
“The industry is becoming increasingly aware that a
guest’s interactions with the location start long before they
step foot in the facility,”
said Theo Sanders, CEO
of Helix Leisure. “Their
pre-visit experiences
form a vital part of their
perception of a brand.
With the Booking Boss
acquisition, we’re now
able to connect a beauti-
ful pre-visit experience to
Embed’s existing on-site
capabilities, and in doing so, allow operators to engage with
their guests at every step of the journey.”
The acquisition was completed in July 2017, and adds to
Helix Leisure’s portfolio of companies. For more information,
visit (www.bookingboss.com).
Free Daytona soft-
ware upgrade adds
new features
Sega Amusements has released a free software upgrade
for its award-winning video racing game Daytona Champi-
onship USA. The brand new and refined existing features
include a panoramic attract sequence, improved handling,
refined force feedback, revised difficulty and artificial intel-
ligence, upgraded graphics and audio, and an all new party
mode.
“We want all our customers to have this important
software upgrade, so we are offering it completely free of
charge,” said Justin Burke, general manager at Sega. “In fact,
we have already started shipping out the upgrade on a USB
drive to our Daytona customers.”
The new panoramic attract sequence
will display across all linked screens
(minimum of four linked cabinets
required). Refinements to the car han-
dling and force feedback bring players
closer to the action. The revised difficul-
Stern Pinball has appointed Hot Toys Japan Co. Inc. as its exclusive import-
ty and artificial intelligence makes the
er and distributor for Japan. Hot Toys Japan, an experienced seller of licensed
game more accessible to beginners while
products, started the relationship by distributing Stern titles, including Guardians
retaining the classic Daytona challenge
of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Batman, Aerosmith, WWE Wrestle-
for the pros.
Mania, Metallica, and AC/DC.
With the new party mode, operators
“We selected Hot Toys Japan as our exclusive importer and distributor because
can now schedule private events for par-
of their established success with related businesses, financial strength, knowledge
ties and automate a unique experience
of our industry, and passion for Stern Pinball products,” said Gary Stern, chairman
for up to 128 named players.
and CEO of Stern Pinball.
One USB drive will update multi-
To prepare, Hot Toys Japan will be adding personnel to their already expe-
ple cabinets, and the same USB-drive
rienced staff to facilitate sales of Stern Pinball machines to the commercial and
will update the billboard and game
consumer markets.
board. All Daytona games now ship out
“We have been long time Stern Pinball supporters and are very pleased to
with the new software update already
have the opportunity to represent Stern in the Japanese market,” said Franck
installed. For more information, contact
Dubois, CEO of Hot Toys Japan. For more information, visit (www.sternpinball.
the Sega sales department at (sales@
com).
segaarcade.com).
Hot Toys is new Japan
distributor of Stern Pinball
PLAY METER
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FEBRUARY 2018