What it does: Sells arcade games, pinball machines, air hockey tables, jukeboxes, photo booths, and similar amusements to businesses and homeowners. Why it's growing It's nostalgia. It's families with large homes and disposable cash (many items are north of $5,000). And it's the desire of bar owners to own machines so they don't need to split revenue with local operators, long the standard business model. CEO David Young says the industry is fragmented and filled with breaking-even mom-and-pops, so it's ripe for consolidation. BMI Gaming plans to begin a roll-up in early 2008. Young was a bachelor with a hole to fill, so he bought a Funhouse pinball machine, which led to a collection of 15 machines. When he got a healthy offer for a Twilight Zone machine, he was on his way to becoming a pinball wizard.

BMI Gaming is the first company in the amusement distribution industry to be awarded a position on the annual Inc. 500 list, and was recently recognized by Internet Retailer Magazine as one of the Top 500 Internet Retailers In America in 2007 and 2006, and by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Entrepreneur Magazine on their annual Hot 100 Fastest Growing Private Firms list in 2006.

About BMI Gaming:

BMI Gaming, The World's Largest Gaming Superstore ™ owns the largest website of its kind, containing one gigabyte of content spanning over 800 pages, and is ranked as the most-visited commercial arcade gaming site in the world by Quantcast.com, and operates one of the largest coin-operated game showroom the world, with over 150 games on display.

BMI Gaming currently offers over 1300 different types of video games, pool tables, photo booths, pinball machines, shuffleboards, jukeboxes, air hockey, foosball tables, redemption games, kiddie rides, vending machines and many other game and amusement-related products.

Its customer base ranges from students, families, baby boomers, retirees, C-level executives, Wall Street traders, world-famous sports, movie, music and media stars, to entertainment facilities like arcades, bowling alleys, theaters, and various non-profit organizations like colleges, charities and youth centers, as well as various local, state and federal government entities, plus many Fortune 1000 firms throughout the world.

BMI Gaming’s growth and company story has been covered by various national publications, television and radio shows, and the company currently counts over five thousand residential and commercial customers in all 50 states and fourteen different countries abroad.