Timezone Arcades Across The Globe

History
The first Timezone arcade opened in 1978 in Perth, Western Australia, by Leisure & Allied Industries (now LAI Games). Timezone claims that it is the first family-oriented amusement centers of that time, and said that its family emphasis is the key focus of their brand. In 1992, Timezone started their ventures outside Australia beginning in new Zealand. Timezone opened its first outlet in Asia in 1993. Timezone since than has opened outlets in Singapore, Indonesia in 1995, The Philippines in 1998, India in 2004, and Vietnam in 2017. In December 2017, TEEG announced that they had purchased the bowling and entertainment division of Arden Leisure, in order to merge it with its Timezone entertainment business, forming a combined entertainment group encompassing Timezone, AMF, Kingpin and Playtime, one of the world’s largest family entertainment centre groups. TEEG operates in six countries with over 250 locations. All AMF Bowling Centres in Australia were rebranded as "Zone Bowling". Centres in New Zealand were rebranded Xtreme Entertainment. In November 2018 In November 2018, TEEG purchased all PLAYTIME venues and slowly rebranded them to Timezone with the last PLAYTIME converted to Timezone in June 2019.

Powercard
Timezone arcade system moved to a magnetic swipecard system known as the Timezone Powercard. This meant that customers, rather than having to carry many coins around, could simply deposit a larger amount of money (for example, $10) onto their Powercard account. In order to use an arcade machine, they simply had to swipe their card through a detector located on the machine, and the credit would be deduced from the card account. This system was supplied by Australian company Embed International. Tap-to-play cards are now currently available in the Singapore, Philippine and Vietnam franchises and are beginning to be rolled out across Australian franchises as of December 2018. In the Philippines however, the cards are hybrid tap-and-swipe as not all branches have tap card compatibility yet. Paper tickets for ticket redemption arcade machines were replaced with electronic tickets automatically loading on the card in 2004. Eventually, tickets were now dispensing again instead of automatically loading on the card, prevalent in the India, Philippines and Singapore franchises. In the India and Philippines franchises, a rare golden ticket allows the player to earn an extra 1000 tickets. As of 2005, Timezone Powerclub credit in Australia lasted one year from the date of credit and the cards could only be used at the original store of purchase. As of 2008, after many Timezone stores closed, balances can be used at any venue regardless of where the credit was put on. However, in order to progress to the higher Powerclub levels, customers can only put credit on at the venue which issued the card, or in some franchises, Fun Points can be earned by loading a specific number to reach a certain threshold for upgrade. The exception to this is where the issuing venue has subsequently closed down and a new "home venue" has been selected.

Countries

 * Timezone Australia (1978)
 * Timezone New Zealand (1992)
 * Timezone Singapore (1993)
 * Timezone Indonesia (1995)
 * Timezone Phillippines (1998)
 * Timezone India (2006)
 * Timezone Vietnam (2017)

Timezone Brunei (New) (2022)
After people in Malaysia and Brunei got the Covid 19 Vaccine, and after Western Australia was fully recovered from the virus, the Timezone Arcade Executives and marketers wanted to expand their international locations. First. the marketers wanted to come to Japan, but Japan already has an arcade chain known as "Round1 Bowling and Amusement". They went to South Korea, Taiwan, The People's Republic of China and nations in the Middle East like the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, but the middle east has plans to build locations of their most popular arcade brand Funcity in nations outside of the Middle East and India. South Korea said no because of their traditional conservative values, Taiwan said no because of the nations stock exchange failing after Covid 19 went away. The People's Republic of China is opening it's first Round1 location, so they refused. One day, the president of Brunei's largest mall The Mall Gadong, was walking around Surfer's Paradise on Australia's Gold Coast, and he happened to run into to a Timezone Arcade and he thought "Brunei needs a good videogame arcade",

Timezone Sri Lanka (new)
Timezone Canada