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  • Phoenix Amusements Racing Arcade

    By Stacy | 04/22/2014

    We’re proud to announce our newest promotional video for Phoenix Amusements! Here’s one of our older videos from one of our corporate events highlighting driving our linked racing simulators.  So much family fun on our racing arcade rentals!

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    Beyond the Booth-5 Trade Show Alternatives Ideas

    By Stacy | 06/19/2021

    Exhibiting at a trade show? Usually businesses trying to increase their brand awareness or obtaining qualified leads will exhibit at trade shows by purchasing a booth space on the expo floor. If you find that you just: don’t have the right personnel to man the booth, don’t want to spend the money or, just don’t…

  • Donald Hankinson Sr., 76: Leader in electronic games industry

    By Stacy | 06/24/2013

    By J.E. Geshwiler For the AJC Don Hankinson Sr. was in the business of fun and took great enjoyment in it. Friends say he played the arcade games that he distributed with the enthusiasm of a youngster. In 1959 he founded Phoenix Amusements Inc., a one-man Atlanta operation that grew to have customers nationwide. Nowadays…

  • Thinking of Opening a Game Room Business

    By Stacy | 06/17/2013

    We get this call about once a week or more; “I want to open a game room” or “do you do game rooms?”  In answer to the first question, we always ask another question, “where will your game room be and what’s your demographics?”  The standard reply is “I’m in whatever city, and there’s nothing…

  • Who is the Best Game Rentals Event Company in Atlanta? (Reviews/Ratings)

    By Stacy | 06/04/2013

    Just about every event planning coordinator gets stumped with finding the right game rental company in the city of their event or meeting that they are planning.  Each major metropolitan city touts a who’s who in the game rental industry.  But if this is your first time searching for such a vendor, it can be…

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture-Giant Chess Board

    By Stacy | 05/03/2013

    Very interested twist on our Giant Chess Board Rental Game.  Here’s a great blog article on a permanent entertainment piece in New Zealand. Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture.

  • Super Shot Basketball Hoop

    Basketball Shooting Game Fervour

    By Stacy | 04/18/2013

    Now that the Final Four is over, is basketball fervour gone?  No, not at all.  We have more bookings for our arcade basketball shooting games now than we did during the games.  I guess its because we’re one of the few if only ones in Atlanta or even the Southeast that have high end basketball…

  • Money Booth Magic at Trade Shows

    By Stacy | 03/05/2013

    I will start this out with the advice I tell all my clients. No traffic builder can bridge the gap for mediocre trade show preparations or a lackluster booth staff. The trade show traffic builder is something that promotes your company or products with fun thought out interactions. Choosing the right item that is appropriate…

  • Don Hankinson attended Gov. Howard Dean

    By Stacy | 05/10/2012

    Don Hankinson attended Gov. Howard Dean’s keynote speech on health cares future and a Q&A session on politics, health care , and everything else. He commented, “..it was well worth it, even though I do not agree with his election predictions for 2012.” — at JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa. http://ow.ly/i/CnJp

  • Last day @ the Shriner’s Circus. Fun Zo

    By Stacy | 05/06/2012

    Last day @ the Shriner’s Circus. Fun Zone Skeeball for all ages.http://ow.ly/i/BQfe