The Japan Amusement Expo (JAEPO) is an annual
trade fair
A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific Industry (economics), industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest Product (business), products and se ...
for
amusement arcade
An amusement arcade, also known as a video arcade, amusements, arcade, or penny arcade (an older term), is a venue where people play arcade games, including arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, mercha ...
products, such as
arcade game
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s, redemption games, amusement rides, vending machines, and change machines.
The event is hosted one weekend per year in the Greater Tokyo Area. The event is held at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, Chiba, Chiba.
JAEPO is one of the largest amusement-machine trade fairs in the world.
It is organised by the combined efforts of the Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association (JAMMA) and the Amusement Machine Operators' Union (AOU). Before 2012, these organisations each produced separate trade fairs in Greater Tokyo: the Amusement Machine (AM) Show and the AOU Show, respectively.
History
The Amusement Machine Show, or AM Show, was sponsored by the Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association (JAMMA) and the Japan Amusement Park Equipment Association (JAPEA). In 2012, JAMMA and JAPEA merged and reincorporated as the Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association. They partnered with the Amusement Machine Operators' Union to promote a single event.
The AM Show was scheduled for one weekend in either September, October, or November; the AOU Show occurred in February. When the events merged, the organisers retained the AOU Show's February schedule.
The 49th Amusement Machine Show was held on 15–17 September 2011 at Makuhari Messe
(which remains the venue for JAEPO). The first two days of the expo were for industry invitees only, and the final day was open to the public.
The final AOU Show was the weekend of 18 February 2012; it, too, was held at Makuhari Messe.
AOU was a two-day event in which the second day was open to the public.
References
External links
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JAEPOat Arcade Heroes. Accessed: 01:40, 15 March 2016 (UTC).
AOU Archivesat Arcade Heroes. Accessed: 01:40, 15 March 2016 (UTC).
AOU Showat Sega Retro. Accessed: 01:40, 15 March 2016 (UTC).
Amusement Machine Showat Sega Retro. Accessed: 01:40, 15 March 2016 (UTC).
'96 Amusement Machine Show Line Up a 1996 AM Show flyer at The Arcade Flyer Archive. Accessed: 22:27, 14 March 2016 (UTC).
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Trade fairs in Japan
Video game trade shows
Recurring events established in 2012
2012 establishments in Japan