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The country’s gaming industry dates back to the early 1960s when pinball machines were permitted after they had been banned under the earlier 1931 law.
Five years later the 507/65 was introduced although it then took the Italians another 21 years to bring in a law that permitted a maximum of three free plays on machines as a prize.
This law was passed in 1986 and continued until the mid 1990s when the 425/95 was introduced which permitted 10 free plays or 10 token payouts.
This saw a new era for gaming machines however as the gaming law was left wide open to interpretation it also saw an influx of illegal operations. Cheap video poker machines began to flood the market around this time and operators
merely swapped the 10 token payout for over the counter cash.
These machines were ideally suited for the Italian bars and domestic companies led the way. However the market became out of control rapidly.
The industry began to campaign for a coin in/coin out and ‘preponderance of skill’ legislation but the government ignored this option and instead introduced the 388/00 which allowed players to win either a prolonged game session or free games up to a maximum of 10 credits. Single games had to last 12 seconds and games were only legal if entirely skill based.
The market went from bad to worse and finally two years later the law was amended and the 289/02 was written.
The country’s gaming
industry dates back to the early 1960swhen
pinballmachineswere permitted after they had been banned
under the earlier 1931 law.
This permitted payout machines but with a 50c stake and €10 maximum payout, 10 second game time and 90 per cent payouts on a cycle of 7,000 games. But they were hardly what the Italians had hoped for.
In a concentrated bid to wipe out the estimated 800,000 video poker games once and for all the government went so far as to ban any images of poker games within AWP or other games.
NewSlots (AWPs) as they are called were then introduced starting with the Comma 6 games. These operated with a maximum payout of €50, a 7-13 second game time and 75 per cent payout on 14,000 cycle and all AWPs had to be linked to a central monitoring system set up by SOGEI (the AAMS information technology supplier).
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