News
November 9, 2009
We're sending GameChains to local hospitals
A friend in the nursing industry (and parent of one of our real-world testers) mentioned that some of the children in her hopsital care could use GameChains. From that moment we began looking for the right departments of local hospitals we could send free GameChains Starter Set. Not for any self-promotion reasons, just to make things a little more convenient for kids. So, if you're making a purchase today, you're helping us with this new initiative .If you have an idea for a hospital ear you that could use a few sets of GameChains, please drop us a line. Thank you.
July 9, 2009
GameChains touch locations around the w orld
We've been happily selling GameChains from this site to locations across the USA and Denmark, Italy, Spain, Thanks to all those who have orderedin the past and for those doing research for purchase in the near future.
Here's a photo sent in by a happy customer (C. Purrington).
April 9, 2008
GameChains almost made it onto the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
After getting the call from The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch show the other day and recording a very short video for their Million Dollar Question segment asking about our logo, and some on-again, off-again scheduling that is natural on TV - the GameChains logo was flashed on screen for split-second during the show last night (April 9th, 2008).
They said that the show ran long in recording, which happens. So my actual video clip might not ever air. I’m not holding any grudge since we’re still working away launching what we believe to be the most interesting game-containment system for the hand-held game market.
Keep your eyes open and be sure to sign-up for our email list to be informed periodically about our product and its evolution.
Thanks for your support, and keep playing!
* A special thanks to the crew at The Big Idea show who tracked me down and were so great to deal with for the video segment. You guys haven’t heard the last from me!
Chip Stockman
cstockman@gamechains.com
April 2, 2008
We got the call from Donny Deutsch
Late on Wednesday April 2nd we got a call from the CNBC television show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. If it was the day before I would have sworn it was a friend messing with us for April Fools Day!
The scoop was they wanted to film a video clip for their Million Dollar Question segment they use at the end of the show. We FedEx’d samples, email photos of the product in use and in our direct mail shipper and logged on their WebEx site as instructed Thursday 4/3/2008.
After a brief dialog with the segment producer and about 30 minutes of practice with my two sentence question we captured it on the second take. Practice Practice!
The segment is supposed to air Thursday 4/10/2008. The show is on CNBC 10 PM EST. We hope you catch it, or maybe see it on www.bigidea.cnbc.com. If you saw it anywhere take second to drop your comments here. We’ll post a copy on our site as soon as we can.
GameChains are only available on www.GameChains.com right now (and sometimes Ebay for fun) but as we scale up we will be building a channel of regional retailers and will post a list on the web site so keep an eye out.
We’ve had many requests to build an online shopping system that will let purchasers build their own GameChains set, so we’re working on it. Soon you will be able to pick which colors of tabs and chains you want to perfectly customize your GameChains set.
Remember, the standard GameChains set includes 8 tabs: 2 Acid Green, 2 Blue, 2 Amber and 2 yellow, 1 powder coated metal ball-chain (white or black) and 10 adhesive pads to attach the tabs to your games for just $10.95.
And keep an eye open for our new shapes and colors to be available soon. Sign up for our email list to get a notice when new items and features are available.
Thanks for your support
Chip Stockman and Caroline
GameChains