CR99-p34-g2e5:SJC-Casino Review
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G2e10 REPORT
Sun shines stateside for Novomatic Whilst Novomatic enjoyed a great show marked by a larger than ever before visitor contingent from South America, the lead up to the exhibition saw a number of key installs in North America, most notably in the two biggest casinos in the United States; Mohegan Sun Resort and Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut.
lowed up with a second order for 15 of FV623 models with the Ultimate 10XA game mix. All the games are performing better than expected. We followed up the Fort Hall installation with the installation of games at the Holiday Inn properties in both Ponce and Mayaguez Puerto Rico. Once again, the game performance was overwhelming with our games now the number one revenue generator on the casino floor. In addition, we also recently completed our first installation in California. The Augustine Casino accepted eight of our FV623 models which are sure to be a hit with locals.” Additional installations prior to G2e included Valley View Casino in California, Mohegan Sun Resort and Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut, Isle of Capri in Florida and the Marriott Emerald Casino in Curacao. Smith added: “This year’s G2E was amazing. Game Austrian Gaming Industries’ orders flowed from both US Max Lindenberg and Dave and Caribbean customers for Orrick (above) with Amazon several hundred new games. Treasures and Lions on the We were also able to assist NovoStar SL2. Fredy Fortuna on the jackpot system P-Box the Octavian Argentina team to sign up system sales for our Caribbean customers. The most compelling thing, together and openly discuss in my opinion, about both many matters that have the FV623CF 1+ and FV626 affected us all in recent CF II cabinets is the new months. We now look game mixes we are releasing forward to ICE 2011 in into our market. The FV623 London where we will con- cabinet will include the new Ultimate 10H game mix and tinue that process.” Novomatic has been the FV626 cabinet will working stateside with Reel include game mix 38 both of Games since 2009 with the which include three 40 line partner marketing and secur- games as well as the proven ing game real estate and lab twenty and ten line performapprovals for the rollout of ers. Ultimate 10H also the licensed product from includes a Bingo and Novomatic for North Roulette game. Both cabinet models are being released America and Caribbean. Sean Smith of Reel Games with 10 game banks and over said:“Our first install this year 30 new titles. Depending on was at the Fort Hall Casino in the customer’s budget, we Idaho. We initially installed also like to include a multi 30 FV626 games which level mystery progressive or included game mixes 25, 26 utilise the internal stand and 27.The performance was alone game mystery availa major success as it was fol- able in both models.”
functionality adds maximum comfort and convenience for the guest and maximum On the red carpet at the flexibility for the operator. Novomatic booth visitors Running on the server based found top star cabinets such Novo Unity II multiplayer as the NovoStar SL2 and the platform, it allows casinos to Super-V+ Gaminator with link any chosen number of the latest Coolfire II multi- terminals to different games game mixes. With up to 27 such as Roulette, Baccarat, games per multi-game mix, Poker and Black Jack to make up to seven player-selectable all those games available at denominations, multi-lan- every single player station. guage options as well as a This enables the guest to great choice of high/low line- switch f lexibly from one games (5 to 40 lines selec- game to another via fingertip table) these multi-game touch, without having to mixes offer maximum flexi- leave their favourite seat. Cash handling systems bility for the operator and demonstrated at the Novoguests alike. A further attraction in Las matic booth also included Vegas was the Ultimate 10 cashless and TITO applicamulti-game mixes XA-H: this tions. With the proprietary new and growing range of jackpot system P-Box, AGI multi-game mixes is based also presented the brand on the new Coolfire I+ new jackpot theme ‘Fredy gaming platform and is avail- Fortuna’ which has been able in the popular Gamina- developed through the close tor cabinet. The Coolfire I+ co-operation of Octavian platform combines the ben- South America and AGI. Jens Halle,managing direcefits of Coolfire II technology with the cost effective tor AGI, said:“G2E this year price structure of the former was a very good show for Coolfire I platform offering Novomatic and AGI.We saw a tremendous benefits for the welcome number of internamore cost-conscious cus- tional visitors; including many from South America tomer segment. Novomatic also displayed and we were pleased to be a comprehensive multi- able to conclude worthwhile player installation compris- levels of business. We look ing Novo Multi-Roulette, forward to next year’s more Novo TouchBet Baccarat, favourable date and to the Novo Flying Black Jack as change of venue for the well as Novo Flying Texas show. Meetings held here in Hold’em Poker, Novo Flying Las Vegas have gone a long 3-Card Poker and Novo way to creating a more ‘busiFlying Caribbean Poker - all ness-friendly’ dimension to in one system and all avail- the international show calable on each of the linked endar and I think all of the individual player stations. major manufacturers were This multiplayer multi-game glad of the opportunity to sit reelshine NOVOMATIC
Merkur debuts with Casinoline and slant top newslant MERKUR GAMING
Merkur Gaming debuted at this year’s G2E showing its brand new Slant Top cabinet with 26” monitor on top and 22” touch-monitor and Casinoline, a ten game multigame line for casino markets. Jens Stradtmann, CEO at Merkur, said: “The constant stream of visitors, in particular from Central and South America,
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has exceeded our expectations. The exhibition’s visitors showed very strong interest in our casino slots and we were able to strengthen existing contacts to our valued customers as well as to fascinate the interested parties by our products made in Germany”. Frank Ziegler, director sales and marketing, added: “The casino market is traditionally characterised by single games. With our ‘Casinoline’ multi-games, particu-
larly in the innovative Slant Top cabinet, we offer maximum flexibility and comfort for casino operators and their customers.” Elsewhere, the Merkur Dispenser 100 is an innovative banknote recycler that consists of banknote reader, banknote stacker and banknote recycler. It has integrated three patented drums that can store up to 34 notes each, meaning 102 notes in total can be recycled.