The perpetual most-wanted-list for games to appear at the show includes:
- New releases
- Gottlieb System 80 Krull
- Any woodrail [never enough]
- Prototypes (Road runner, Big Bang Bar, Kingpin)
- Small production games (Joust, Varkon, Safecracker, Blackwater, Riverboat Gambler)
- non-US games (Zaccaria)
- Oddball games (Granny and the Gators, Asteroid Annie, Banzai Run, Goin' Nuts