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Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized pieces of news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. We have struggled to bring out major stories for much of this month, what with multiple big releases being delayed into August, but hopefully that will end soon as we do know of several stories developing in the background. Until then, here\u2019s some smaller happenings to tide things over:<\/p>\n

Is SuzoHapp Out Of Business?<\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s start with what is one of the bigger deals in the business, and the current main chatter of the amusement community. This is still a developing story, so the details may yet change.<\/strong> That said, over the past week, various customers dealing with arcade parts supplier SuzoHapp have been told that they have seemingly gone out of business, with orders going unfulfilled. One of the principal posts about this is on the private Facebook group FEC Equipment For Sale<\/em><\/a>, but others have also been making similar claims. On the flipside, there is no official press release as of this time, plus site friend Kevin Williams has been trying to get hold of someone at SH for comment (including the CEO), and as of this writing, he has not received an answer. Usually silence is a passive way of acknowledging a question, however, SH haven\u2019t been too consistent at putting out PR & news for the past couple of years either. Also along those lines, the UK division was supposed to confirm their existence with the government back in June, and they haven\u2019t done so<\/a>. That tends to be indicative of a company in trouble.<\/p>\n

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We can give them the benefit of the doubt, and say that they may have closed up shop, but are currently in negotiations for the company to be bought out. There are multiple entities out there who would likely be interested, and that could also end up resulting in the company being sold in chunks to different parties too, as SH has international offices (so for example, they could be talking with one entity here in the US to buy up that part of the company, while another in Europe buys out that portion). Still, with so many customers out there and a reputation they\u2019ve built up over the past few decades, they really should put out a statement to at least acknowledge if they are in that process or not, as people naturally fill a void like this with assumptions and hearsay.<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with the name, SH have been one of the biggest suppliers of arcade parts for many years, offering just about everything from joysticks to light-guns, power supplies to monitors, and everything in-between. They have designed many parts, so if you\u2019ve played an Area 51<\/em> or a Time Crisis II<\/em> that has the distinctive blue or red pistols that weren\u2019t original to them, those would be \u201cSuzoHapp guns\u201d. For a while though, a lot that they have offered has taken a bit of time to ship, and they had made some policy changes that bothered customers (such as weird minimum part order requirements, for a time). SH also were big producers of coin doors; some were upset not long ago when Raw Thrills changed out the doors they had been using, as theirs had all come from SH. But they stopped making those, and everyone who used them had to pivot (so don\u2019t blame the manufacturer).<\/p>\n