This fundamentally underlines the attempts to blinker their views over amusement by the console mags – that said some are now coming round desperate for something to cover in the current console drought!

I once worked in the UK for a arcade distributor that supported CVG with chances to review new PCB’s. I was interested to hear EMC had to buy your boards! I am concerned that getting consumer media coverage is not on the amusement trade radar.

Let’s be frank, the amusement trade is the only entertainment industry I know that dose not directly promote to its customer base – seeing the operator as their customer rather than the players! For me this is lunacy, but as direct marketing would cost money, the trade dose not like to think on this.

I would go further and state that amusement is not worth promoting – I would propose a new sector digital out-of-home entertainment that WOULD promote to the players and have a special marketing drive to do this – totally alien to how the amusement trade works today.

I was covered when I went down to cover Dirty Drivin’ though. I guess I really should do an arcade review section on the site.