Coinslot International is a UK trade magazine that caters for the 'pay-to-play' leisure sector, generally known as 'coin-op' before the widespread introduction of electronic means of payment.
[1] Among the issues of interest to be found in Coinlsot include: In 2000, the title was purchased by ATE Ltd, the organiser of the UK trade's major exhibition ATEI.
Many in the industry believed that Coinslot played an instrumental part in blocking the sale of the exhibition company, which eventually purchased the newspaper.
BACTA eventually sold ATE in June 2005 for £13.5m to Clarion Events, a deal that included Coinslot in the package.
It was subsequently acquired by GB Media, which also publishes leading gaming titles iGaming Times and International Casino Review, for an undisclosed sum.