The ‘old guard’ are not going to give up without a fight – nice family guys that they are, they feel the industry owes them and will not let go – and like any older veteran they will not admit they are behind the times – they will fight tooth-and-nail, and even pull down the industry rather than admit that things need to be changed for the better.

It has taken them a long time to grab control of the sector and will not let it go, especially for ungrateful whelps such as myself and others – who like turning over rocks and asking questions. As my business begins to see better times, I get a glimpse of the roadblocks that some in this sector are prepared to put in our path just to hold on to power.

ASI’08 will be a very telling time for the American (International) amusement scene – the question is, before we get these Old Guard to leave will they hit the self destruct button and blow up our industry, rather than hand it over peacefully!!

I know, I’m preaching to the choir

Did you not read the last but one Stinger – the only good (if any) coverage of the amusement ATEI show was the consumer scene. Most of the manufacturers and operators do not like or use the interest – they have a web site and a guy (their son) who plays with it every now and then to look competent – BMI is the only US web savvy site .

When I get information off the Japanese web I am told… oh you can’t do that, that’s Japan and this is America we are different. Anyway, this is the last none connected ASI (he said) – they will be announcing big changes in some US satellites for 2009 and hopefully the new executives will be web minded!!!??

The reason the manufacturers update now is not a sudden web savvy – they are getting ready for ASI in a couple of weeks – like wise in June we will see a update for Gala.