Another busy week is in the can, and as things are at the moment, I should be a little less busy this week. To update anyone who cares about my second arcade location, I received a shipment of Sega games on Wednesday, but one of them posed quite a problem. This was because the game was shipped fully assembled and on a pallet, so we were extremely fortunate that there was a free forklift to use on-site to get the game off of the dock, then off of the pallet afterward.
Anyways, here are your Newsbytes for the weekend:
LAI Games Resurrects My Slam N’ Jam
Back when I was selling games, there were certain products that we a bit of a challenge to describe to prospective buyers, as very little distinguished them from one product to another. “What makes this x model different from this y model and why such a price difference?” people would often ask. Sometimes it could be obvious, but at others, not so much.  Pool tables were the worst, but arcade basketball machines weren’t much better. Yeah, they looked different, but often the manufacturers wouldn’t bother to detail how gameplay might be different from other machines.
Fortunately, we now live in the age of the video screen being added to mechanical games, which is changing up the dynamic. While this isn’t listed on their website yet, LAI Games has brought back one of their old basketball titles, My Slam N’ Jam, and given it a video screen backboard. As the video explains below, the screen makes it more of an intuitive and interactive experience than before, as players progress through different stages. This is a sleek looking machine, and if a distributor is already promoting it, then you should start seeing these out there soon. Thanks to Jdevy for

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