G3-247 Report SPAIN


GAMING INCOME PER REGION REGION


MADRID


ANDALUCIA CATALUÑA VALENCIA


CASTILLA Y LEON GALICIA


CANARIES BASQUE COUNTRY


CASTILLA LA MANCHAS ARAGON


BALEARIC ISLANDS MURCIA


EXTREMADURA ASTURIAS


CANTRABRIA NAVARRA LA RIOJA CEUTA


MELILLA


Bally Wulff is still active in Spain via Cirsa and launched its multigame, Action Star, in a sit-down or upright ver- sion, plus top box Secret Island jackpot feature. The arcade game features 30 games and has had success in the German market.


Bally Wulff has brought in well known Dutch man Willem Korteweg, who retired from Barcrest last year. He will now focus on Bally’s involvement in the Spanish


Synot has five different product lines including Blue, Golden,


Green, Red and Black and White with 75 different games across


these models. Synot has 19,000 VLTs in operations in Czech.


and Italian markets whilst also looking at other territo- ries. Meanwhile, Darek Borowiec is the new product and sales manager for Spain at Bally Wulff.


Aristrocrat Technologies has also entered the Spanish market with its first SBG games for the Aragon region. With a huge circus themed stand at the recent show Aristocrat presented its VLT terminal which housed the Players World Los Juegos Favoritos (Favourite Games) multipack. At the moment the games are in a 19 inch cabinet and have six games. The product is now live in Aragon.


Operated by Dioper 2000, a salon based in Zaragoza, the


products use the TruServ SBG system pioneered by the Aristocrat Lotteries division.


Raul Rubio, Vice President of Dioper 2000 said: “Our customers have responded very encouragingly to this new form of multigame on the gaming floor and we are proud to have pioneered its introduction in Spain.”


The new system is be able to deploy new games and enhancements remotely and offers a back office man- agement system. Payments can also be tickets, coins, notes or card-based. At the moment the system is in seven sites owned by three different operators in Aragon.


Meanwhile, there were a few companies eager to test the Spanish waters with the new VLT laws and Czech company Synot took a stand in Madrid to exhibit and present its VLT products in a bid to make expand its contacts in the sector.


It was Synot’s first look at Spain and although the com- pany did not have software developed for Spain as yet, it presented cabinets and game concepts that could eas- ily be adapted for the sector.


Synot’s Roland Andrysek said: “We have been very happy with the market response. We do not want to operate here in the beginning, but we are looking for distributors or partners that we can work in Spain. We only decided recently to explore this market and we can easily change the software for Spain within our range.”


Synot currently has five different product lines includ- ing Blue, Golden, Green, Red and Black and White, with


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PERCENTAGE 19.5%


16.1% 14.2% 10.8% 6.4% 5.3% 4.1% 3.9% 3.9% 3%


2.9% 2.8% 1.9% 1.8% 1.3% 1.2% 0.6% 0.1% 0.1%


75 different games across these models. Synot is a major operator and has 19,000 VLTs in operations in Czech.


R.Franco made a positive announcment having teamed up with the Inspired Gaming Group. Inspired will supply its Open Core platform and games to R.Franco, enabling two to work together to create VLTs using a selection of games from each company.


Jesus Franco said: “We are delighted to be uniting this industry leading technology with R.Franco’s leading cabinets, games and experience in the Spanish market.”


The company presented Lucky Wheels at the FER show, which is a game in the Constellation series with five reels and additional games in video.


Luke Alvarez of Inspired predicted: “Server-based, multigame products will modernise the landscape of machine gaming in Spain.”


Other companies such as Sente had their usual presence with new products La Ruleta Darma and Master Game Turbo, whilst Zitro saw the huge launch of new bingo technology this year and unveiled three different types of community games for the popular bingo market.


Titled ‘Zitro Revolution’ the company has invested a lot of time and effort in R&D to revitalise the video bingo sector and launched a range of new productions. For the first time the company has developed its own SBG tech- nology for its Blackwave machines.


Firstly, there is Air Cash, which is compatible with two platforms – Bluewave and Blackwave and where play-


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