RePlay Magazine Podcast - George McAuliffe
Welcome to Episode 1 of the RePlay Magazine Podcast, hosted by Randy Chilton, which will share interesting bits of “coin-op” history and entertaining stories from industry greats – the visionaries...
Highlights
- Time Out (Tico Bonomo's company) may have invented the mall arcade in the late 1970s, competing with the Millman brothers in Chicago for that distinction
- Edison Brothers Stores was a $2 billion/year NYSE-listed company when it acquired Time Out in 1987 (after Sega acquisition)
- McAuliffe was part of taking Dave & Buster's from 2 locations to 7 locations before spinoff/independence
- Edison Brothers parent company hadn't missed a dividend since 1925 before entering Chapter 11
- McAuliffe's first consulting client for Pinnacle Entertainment Group was Disney
- Pinnacle currently working on five hotel deals, compared to roughly 10 total in 40 years of business
- McAuliffe wrote monthly columns for RePlay Magazine for 32 years before recently concluding his regular contributions
Notable quotes
“Dave, I say he forgot more about the arcade business than I ever knew. He was a really, really sharp guy.”
“I liked it a lot until I didn't.”
“The biggest part is I know he's smarter than me, so it's not like I'm trying to convince him he's got to do it my way.”
“People say we're experts only because we've already made all the mistakes.”
“When I was a young guy, I couldn't wait till replay hit.”
Entities
- Coinstar· company
- Dave & Buster's· company
- Edison Brothers Stores· company
- Kittleton Genda· company
- National Entertainment Network· company
- Pinnacle Entertainment Group· company
- Redemption Plus· company
- Sega· company
- Spare Time Entertainment· company
- Time Out· company
- RePlay Magazine· organization
- Dave Corriveau· person
- George McAuliffe· person
- Howard McAuliffe· person
- Julie McAuliffe· person
- Nick DiMatteo· person
- Randy Chilton· person
- Tico Bonomo· person
- Tom McAuliffe· person
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