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G2E 2009 REVIEW
excellent visual presentation. The game conjures up powerful system, offering a number of technological
the popular series perfectly, and the actual physical advancements including TFT display providing
package of the slot machines is most impressive. In a operators with enhanced interaction with players.
bank of four, each slot machine represents one of the CRYSTAL.net offers standard technology such as USB
series’ main characters, with Jack O’Neill, Daniel and Ethernet connectivity, as well as RFID and
Jackson, Samantha Carter and Teal‘C. Available in the ATRONIC has made any effort to provide for all
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cabinets, the future technological advancements. CRYSTAL.net
popularity of this linked gaming product has been incorporates all the feedback and knowledge
growing and growing. ATRONIC has gained from 10 years of operating
Great licensed product is now part of Atronic’s CRYSTAL WEB.
staple offering, and their Los Tres Chiflados (the
Spanish-language name of The Three Stooges) three- Gaming Partners International had just
level progressive will continue its success. Again, it announced the receipt of an order of RFID enabled
looks great, with superb signage and a strong visual gaming currency for the Resorts World Sentosa in
signature. No matter what your language, most Singapore when we caught up with Christophe
players will know the Stooges. Leparoux at the G2E show in Las Vegas.
Tree of Riches, from the community bonus series, “We displayed many new products here at the G2E
was on stand, providing players with the joy of shared show, with an emphasis on our new applications of
wins. A mystery trigger starts the Tree of Riches RFID technology. We demonstrated the latest
bonus round, where players choose interactive bird evolution of our RFID poker table, which added our
characters to help them shake the tree and win big. new progressive jackpot system with two screens to
Golden bills offer additional bonus rounds with even our existing automatic calculation of the percentage
higher prizes. for the casino pot rake. We have approximately 20
To round out this year’s showcase, ATRONIC was of these new tables installed across Europe. The
also highlighting a number of proven core games that operators benefit from an increase in enhanced play
have passed extensive market validation tests and are per hour of 20 to 25 per cent. The players are also
top performers in many jurisdictions. Many of those enjoying it because they like the technology and
games include unique and innovative features such as information displayed on the screens. This
Wild Stays Until It Pays. When this feature is technology has been evolving very nicely over the last
activated, all Wilds stay on the screen until they couple of years and is growing in popularity with
become part of a winning combination. special interest from our operators in France.”
On the systems side, ATRONIC professionals were “We previewed our RFID roulette technology for
on hand to present the entire range of ATRONIC’s the first time here at the G2E show. While still
comprehensive systems solutions, including under development, it will be ready to be unveiled for
CRYSTAL.net, the new evolution of casino commercialization at the IGE show in London in
management floor systems, maximising revenues and January. We believe that this product will be well
streamlining casino operations. CRYSTAL.net is the received by operators because casinos have been
evolution of CRYSTAL WEB and an even more looking for an RFID roulette table.”
GPI is also offering a themed products package
which allows operators to promote shows and special
IGT’s James
events at their tables. It has long been popular in the
Boje with the
American Idol
US market, where shows or special events can be
setup.
promoted on, say, a Blackjack table, layout design,
chips, plaques, etc., for the marketing promotion.
Also prominently displayed at the stand was a cage
reader, with a video interface unit.
Leparoux confirmed that the show was successful
in showcasing GPI’s full line of products with many
key decision makers in attendance."We believe the
success of this show will carry over to the IGE show
in January".
IGT went for the ‘WOW’ factor, as usual - but
pleasantly, there was more space on their stand than
previous years. Still hundreds of customers, but the
machines were more spread out so there was no
feeling of congestion that you might have
experienced before.
The MultiPLAY video slots, some using IGT’s
exclusive 3-D technology, took centre stage for
Casino International. It’s a very end-user oriented
product, in that it gives the player a choice of the
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