With this unique history of innovation, loyal customer base, and drive to be the best, there is no doubt that Arachnid 360 will continue to “Dart Into The Future!”įor a more in-depth history about Arachnid 360, please purchase the book written by Paul F. These are just a few innovative features that helped Arachnid win the 2012 AMOA Innovator of the Year Award. The Galaxy 3 is state-of-the-art with a flip head that has a 15” target on one side and a 13” target on the other, remote play, and LED lighting to better illuminate the targets. With the introduction of the game-changing Galaxy 3, Arachnid has re-invigorated the excitement in the dart world. Over 40 years later, the same basic technology in the Galaxy, Galaxy II, and Galaxy II.5 has been updated and improved to the standards of today, and is now being used in Arachnid’s new Galaxy 3. The Bealls renamed the company Arachnid 360, LLC and named Sam Zammuto as President with his 35+ years of expertise at Arachnid. Beall, purchased Arachnid from the John Martin estate. Three brothers, Tony, Chris, and Shawn, sons of Paul F. In 2014, the next generation of Bealls entered the story. The Galaxy game won the AMOA’s “Most Played Dart Game” award for 9 years in a row! The Galaxy framework was a breakthrough in league management that allowed remote stats collection via a phone line.
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Arachnid’s growth continued with a series of home games being developed, along with the new coin-op dart game in August, 1991, the fantastically popular Galaxy. Beall to become joint owner with Mike Tillery. In 1989, businessman John Martin bought out Paul F. Now there are 21 events and $130,000 in prize money! And today players come from all over the world to compete against “the best”. In May, 2016, Arachnid celebrated its 31st Anniversary BullShooter tournament. The tournament then featured four events, paid out $25,000 in prize money, and had over 1,000 entrants from around the United States. The first BullShooter took place in Chicago, in May, 1986. Arachnid also concentrated on marketing internationally and decided to start their own tournament, the world renowned BullShooter World Challenge of Champions Tournament (BullShooter). Since 1986, Arachnid has run BullShooter Regionals around the United States throughout every dart season. Also during this time Arachnid began publishing the ever popular BullShooter Magazine, which is still published today for dart players and dart leagues. To this day Arachnid still continues its tradition of educating, teaching and training operators on the promotion of darts through leagues and tournaments. By the mid 80’s, Arachnid was flourishing holding seminars to assist distributors and operators in setting up leagues and tournaments. However, with the addition of Marcio Bonilla and Sam Zammuto to the Arachnid sales team, the product took off. The game hit the market and met with slow acceptance. Beall was one of the driving forces that grew the game/sport as it is today. With his vast knowledge of patent law and engineering background, Paul F. That was when Rudy decided to sell the company and Paul F. In the beginning, the dart game was not without its struggles, quite frankly the game did not score properly, or at all. At that time, Jones even drilled the first dartheads by hand! Jones took rough ideas for the board, darts, and scoring mechanics and innovated the basic scheme that Arachnid and its many imitators use today. With a rough idea of a game, Rudy Allison hired Dick Jones (who is still employed at Arachnid today) to help with the development of the machine. On a trip to Ireland Allison had discovered how enjoyable the game of darts could be. was incorporated in 1975, when a company owned by Rudy Allison made a change from making balloon inflators to electronic dart games. A Brief History of Arachnid 360 – The Originator of Soft-Tip DartsĪrachnid, Inc.
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