Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association

Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association
Type	Trade association
Founded	January 1981 (Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association) April 1, 2012 (Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Not disclosed
Industry	Arcade games
Products	Arcade games
Number of people	100
Website	N/A

Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association is a Japanese trade association for amusement machine designers and distributors.

The trade association includes representatives from arcade game companies including Atlus, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Konami, Sega, Taito, Tecmo, and others.

History

The Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association was formed in January 1981.

It was renamed Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association on April 1, 2012.

JAMMA arcade connector standard

During the early years of the arcade industry, most manufacturers used their own, unique, connections to connect components such as video, sound, controls, and power supplies, to the printed circuit boards (PCBs) of various arcade games.

In 1985, the Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association unveiled the JAMMA connection standard which aimed to set up a standard that let an arcade owner easily change a game into an arcade cabinet without having to manually rewire everything for each PCB.

By 1990, most arcade game manufacturers adopted the JAMMA standard.

JAMMA-compatible hardware owned by the WEC Museum

Name	Year	Added to museum	Notes
JAMMA SuperGun	2017	August 18, 2017	Allowed JAMMA PCBs to be played on a television.
Nintendo to JAMMA adapter	2017	September 5, 2017	Allowed Nintendo PCBs to be played on JAMMA hardware.