There's not much of substance to see on the photos by Korean magazine Amuse World, but hopefully they'll at least hint a little bit at the atmosphere of the show. The Taiwan Hi-tech Amusement Machine Association (THAMA) held it from July 4th through 8th at Taiwan's World Trade Center. 189 amusement businesses and 20 internet companies displayed their goods, and managed to draw in 50.000 visitors.

The show was partly a statement to Taiwan's government to demonstrate the legitimacy of the amusement industry and a plea to loosen the tight regulations for the industry, after some larger companies had a run-in with the police the year before. Yet there were many redemption games displayed, which the government viewed as gambling rather than pure entertainment. Crane games and carnival machines were also popular.

Some Taiwanese companies showed their own-produced photo printer booths, which were all the rage with high school girls in Japan at the time. In Taiwan, however, they couldn't gain much footing because of their relatively high cost and differences in the society.

Like in the rest of the world, fighting games like the Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter series and the new Bloody Roar were wildly popular in Taiwan, too. Funny is Amuse World's mention of the temperament of the Taiwanese players, which allegedly resulted in an unproportional high rate of hardware failures in arcade machines on the island. Of course Taiwan's status as a pirate's paradise had to be mentioned as well, although the Korean magazine also praises a high level of technological know-how among Taiwanese manufacturers.