The next company we’re taking a look at for IAAPA 2025 is Andamiro USA. This year, the company is putting a little more video content out than normal; if you are new to the site, we tend to put most of our focus on video games instead of redemption, since the latter doesn’t really need a “signal boost” as such. Andamiro tends to be heavily focused on supporting the redemption side of the industry, which we will discuss briefly, but after their two new video titles below (which also do have built in ticket redemption support).
Nickelodeon Kart Racers Arcade
Once upon a time in the 2000s, both Chicago Gaming and later Raw Thrills brought Nickelodeon’s cartoon repertoire into arcade kart racers with Nicktoons Racing and Nicktoons Nitro (I have a very early, shaky video here of the latter here, from before I got a tripod and some experience). Both have naturally faded away from locations over time, so with that gap in the market Andamiro have decided to pick up the Nickelodeon baton as it were, and give us this new effort. Please note that this is a prototype image and the cabinet is subject to changes:
While Andamiro has long held the Spongebob Squarepants license, they haven’t done much else with Nickelodeon. What is almost unheard of though is them doing a sit-down racer like this. It is based upon Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway by GameMill, but reprogrammed for arcade use by Team Infinity (aka the Pump It Up Infinity team) in collaboration with Andamiro. The cabinet design is also seemingly based on a Chinese one for another racer that has been floating around for a few years now.
The game originating from consoles does help provide more content than a lot of other arcade racers have been seeing lately, clocking in with over ten tracks and around 24 characters to choose from – including SpongeBob, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Garfield, and more. As with other kart racers, the game features items that you can use to attack other opponents on the track; there is also plenty of slime in the game, as you might expect from something Nickelodeon. Operators can link up to eight units; Andamiro is aiming to release this Q1 2026, with testing (and of course its IAAPA appearance) happening soon.
Marksman
Marksman is a game that has been on our radar since late last year, when its Chinese developer, Superwing, started showcasing it at trade shows and promoting it online. Besides a test at a Round1 location, there was no indication it would come out West until this June, when via Andamiro it was one of the only new arcade games that premiered at Bowl Expo 2025. We didn’t hear anything else about it until now, but it begins shipping December, so what will be at the show will be a production unit.
Marksman falls into the same class as other gallery shooters with air-powered gun feedback, but it is following the 2025 trend of placing two big monitors next to each other vertically, for something akin to a 5:4 aspect ratio (or would it be 4:3? Not sure). The game itself features eleven different scenarios, which are classified into three categories (Factory/Hostage missions; Zombie Battles; Classic Shooting Gallery). This also can be played just for fun/points or for tickets.
Redemption Content
The above two games are Andamiro’s main ones in video for IAAPA 2025, but they will also showcase a few other new pieces there. One is another Nickelodeon license, Spongebob Swish, which belongs to the genre of electromechanical mini basketball shooters, with players shooting hoops via a stick and button, controlling their aim of the mini balls into three rims for tickets:
This will be joined by the SpongeBob VR Ghost Coaster (which I failed to film someone playing at the past two shows – need to get that done this time).
Then in non-game matters, they will be promoting their new Redeem Machine 2 self-service kiosk for redeeming RFID-tagged cards and color-coded redemption chips into digital ticket value. This has a number of improvements over the original 2019 system, including video display capabilities, USB/email-based data export and software/content updates via internet or USB.
Andamiro will also have their previously-released Spiderman and Star Wars pushers, a range of cranes & merchandisers, and Pump It Up (no new major update to that one, from the sounds of it) on hand. Note that their Star Wars Death Star Assault game that was spotted on test earlier this year will not be at the show. It is unknown if this is undergoing further testing or if it has been cancelled.
That’s all we have now, but stay tuned – we have a lot more stuff to discuss in regards to IAAPA 2025, which starts a week from now (the trade show portion starts on Nov. 18th). I will be doing a livestream preview that gathers together everything and talks about Andamiro and others. Stay tuned to our social media channels for when that will go live, and feel free to ask any questions you might have about Andamiro then.
