Next up in our previews for Amusement Expo 2026, we have Amusement Source International, distributors of many arcade games (mainly from Chinese factories) to North America. They showed up at IAAPA last November with a very redemption-heavy line-up, but this time they will be bringing slightly more in video games, including one that hasn’t been seen at any trade show in the US yet. Let’s take a look:
Storm Racer 2/Storm Rider X
First, two titles coming from site advertiser Wahlap and 3MindWave. We’ve covered Storm Racer 2 and Storm Rider X plenty since they were first unveiled in China at the GTI Expo last September, and following the former’s appearance on Wahlap’s own booth at IAAPA prior to ASI’s distribution deal being announced, they will have both on hand here themselves. Rider X will in fact be making its North American debut, as it did not join Racer 2 at IAAPA. With both using the same vertical screen setup, they make for a great attraction (as can be seen in the below video), which ASI will probably replicate on their booth:
Do also note that Betson is carrying SR2 too, although it is not clear if there is any deal in place with ASI and Betson in that regard (last I checked, pricing was different between both companies).
Trick Pong
The main release that ASI are pushing right now (it’s currently in their LinkedIn page header) is this one from Bravo Amusement, a redemption-focused Chinese manufacturer. Trick Pong marks their foray into skill-based beer pong games, which we’ve had a few of over the year’s in arcades (Valley-Dynamo’s Jet Pong and Konami’s Scotto often come to mind there). It was on hand at IAAPA, but only via Bravo’s own small booth; this was easily missed, so I unfortunately didn’t get any footage of it.
On the other hand, Bravo themselves have helpfully uploaded this official trailer detailing the gameplay through their YouTube channel, which will serve as the best glimpse of it until AEI; they’ve also been promoting it plenty over at Twitter/X, where they note that there is also a single player version available. There’s no word on if ASI will be carrying that too though (I imagine they could if it sells well enough).
Crossbow Fishing
Rounding things off, here are a couple of titles out of Ace Amusement that Amusement Source have picked up, both of which were on Ace’s own booth at IAAPA (ASI only had Wild Hunting out of them there). Crossbow Fishing is one of their better efforts, with some nice presentation touches in there that go beyond the norm of those that are typically found with recent fishing/hooking games. ASI have got the smaller three player version of this on offer; a deluxe four player cabinet with two vertical screens does additionally exist, but is seemingly only available directly from Ace themselves.
Dragon Kingdom
For the second of the Ace Amusement games, this is one that we covered just recently in another post as ASI have already started shipping it in the run up to the expo. For those who may have missed it, Dragon Kingdom is their attempt at a Drakons-like motion shooter, with the added element of some original characters and voice acting in there. It didn’t look like it was running well at IAAPA, but what I can ascertain, the footage I got of the game there was not what the game is supposed to be, and it’s probable that the PC was overheating (stuff like that happens at shows from time-to-time).
Other Games
ASI will also have several of the games that were on their IAAPA booth, including the videmption Fortune Zombie shooter from Huatong/IGS, the Box Stack redemption piece from Sunflower, and their vending offerings like the Case Pro phone case printer, the DIY Souvenir Coin, and The Container prize merchandizer game. Some of their titles will also be available at the Shaffer Distributing booth too, so do keep an eye out for them over there.
That wraps up this preview of Amusement Source International’s line-up for Amusement Expo 2026; we are still not done with the previews though, as one short piece for a few things in redemption should be coming before the main one for each company. As ever, stay tuned… for now though, which of ASI’s new arcade video games seen here (e.g. Storm Rider X) interest you most?
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