The Stinger Report

The Stinger Report

UK 'Preview' of Video Scene – Part One
The Stinger Report manages to attend the two days of the second most influential amusement industry event in the yearly calendar – Preview'06. An event that has been broken into two reports – this first looks at the big players including SEGA's first public presentation of their mega Soccer ST system, Deith brining TrioTech to London, Konami showing two new shooting titles and the appearance of Taito's full new dedicated driver turning heads. The Stinger also covers the Japanese appearance of Banpresto's 2006 line-up and the importance of industry knowledge as the Stinger is proven right on SEGA Rally speculation.

The Hidden Cashbox!
The possibility that e-payment may already be making strong inroads into the amusement scene are proven by exclusive information from Stinger sources on the credit card success of the first applications of the Golden Tee LIVE! amusement system. However with success comes a new way of doing business and TSR reveals some of the growing pains that have arisen – information is also revealed on a new attempt by the consumer scene to steal arcade 'Gold', and the impact of Wi-Fi technology in the out-of-home scene applied to consumer network gaming.

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