Tenpin bowling is providing a basis for the expansion of amusement games in Chile.
Local Brunswick importer Family Entertainment Centre Geyger Mailath, run by Steve Geyger, is installing bowling lanes in a variety of locations ranging from shopping malls to petrol stations - and amusement games have accompanied the installation.
The company handles Chile, Peru and Bolivia for Brunswick and in general they have been installed in the food court areas of the locations.
It has also gone into social and sports clubs, including Club Manquehue in Santiago and Club Concepcion and Club Llancolen in the south of the country where wooden bowling lanes have been replaced by the synthetic Brunwick models.
In every case an assortment of new amusement products including simulators, video games, Wurlitzer jukeboxes and pool tables have also been installed.
"We have also put them into countryside locations, in mining areas in the north of the country and industrial units run by oil companies in the south, incities like Valdivia and Puerto Montt where bowling and amusements have also gone into their sports centres," said Geyger.
The company has completed a 12-lane installation in a Shell petrol and service station in Rancagua in the centre of Chile, which with its food court has become a community gathering centre for the city.
Notably, the bowling installations are going into three of the 15 new casinos which are being opened in Chile towards the end of the year, with Calama in the north, Talca in the central area and Osomo in the south as the locations. The company is in negotiation to take bowling and amusements into other casinos as they open.
The total investment of the new casino sector in Chile is thought to be US$604m.
