You lucky guys in the USA, not only do they give away Harley’s to SSB players, but you also have the machines actually in pubs. Sorry I’m a little bitter because they just took out the SSB from my local!
“The great city of Milwaukee is known internationally for its bars and bowling alleys as well as being the world headquarters of Harley-Davidson, the classic American motorcycle company.
Recently they all took center stage as Incredible Technologies awarded a brand-new 2007 Harley-Davidson Sportster to Marvin Piotrowski for winning the monthly Silver Strike Bowler’s Club Sweepstakes.
“Bowling, Bars and Bikes. Nothing’s more American than that,” said Dan Schrementi, IT’s marketing manager. “So it was very appropriate that a Milwaukee-area player should win the March drawing. And having the presentation made at the largest Irish Pub in North America made it even more exciting.”
We have to be a little careful here – the Silver Strikes in the UK are not run as tournament machines – the Sweep stake feature unable to be used in UK gaming. It is the lack of tournament that has impacted the machines appeal here.
What I would suggest is get your local pub to tell you what their criteria is for machine placement – if they are willing we could get them a test machine (say a bowler from Namco)?
They’ve already replaced it with one of those bingo machines. It was the last of the remaining pubs that i go to that had actual video arcade games, not including Golden Tee off course.