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we have a loop-back Karen Thompson, IGT Europe's Marketing Manager
application so you will summarised: "There are companies promoting open
not lose any picture. architecture, but IGT has come to the show with a
The other advantage true open design using GSA guidelines and
of this technology, at demonstrated that fact by adding WMS and
the front panel of this Novomatic machines. Looking to the future, open
model you have all architecture just makes sense in order to get the
necessary product to market as soon as we can with all the bells
connections. There's and whistles we think the industry wants.” Rest
the video input, assured, we'll go into this in more depth in a future
network input and we have all of the controls for the issue of Casino International.
output system, cameras, everything is in the front so Multi-level progressives play a large part in IGT's
you just have to remove the connections there, slide 2007 catalogue, with the iconic Wheel of Fortune
out the plate, feed in a spare one, initialise it and it machine, and a superb Indiana Jones AVP Wide-
will work again. It’s very service friendly and in five screen both looking fantastic on the stand. New video
minutes you have a working system again." slot themes are not forgotten by IGT, who brought the
There's a lot more to Dallmeier's product, but it's best of the company's offerings from G2E to the
too detailed to go into here. Instead, you will be able European market, presenting Wolf Run, Super Happy
to enjoy it in a future issue of Casino International. Fortune Cat, Da Vinci Diamonds and more.
Above: Part of Dallmeier’s stand
Cammegh were busy as usual, every minute of each IGT’ss Star Wars licenses still look particularly
Below: IGT’s iconic Wheel of Fortune
day of the show, it seemed. This year, they were strong with new titles for Europe in Dark Side and
showing two new Roulette wheels, which is no small Rebel Assault to add to an already solid line up.
achievement. At G2E, IGT showed their Multiplayer Station, a
Mercury II, which is the successor to their community-play idea with a computer generated
successful Mercury wheel, features proprietary sensor dealer/croupier. At ICE, they showed this with
technology made by Cammegh, and they say the Roulette and Baccarat, and it looks great. The games
sensors themselves offer the greatest discretion on are sophisticated enough to keep players playing, but
the market today, as feedback suggested to these simple enough to get them on the terminal in the
Roulette innovators that customers can be put off by first place. The hardware also looks good, and IGT are
seeing such security features as visible, flashing lights currently sounding out operators to see what further
tracking the ball. games they would like to see on the new product.
The same technology features in their other new Three Kingdom Wars is one of the newer products,
wheel, the AR1. Cammegh as a company is very and with Signs 4 U signage, it looks absolutely
excited about this wheel, as it's their first completely sensational. It plays beautifully and should appeal to
machine-finished wheel. The bowl is cast from an entirely new demographic – people that grew up
aluminium, and the materials are extremely durable. playing console games, the Super Nintendo and
Cammegh are estimating that this wheel will have the
longest playing life of any of their products to date.
Pitboss is Cammegh's next diversification, an
exciting new wheel analysis system which features a
PDA entry system for an table inspector or dealer to
input values, cash drop and other information.
Pitboss GM is the back-office package, while Pitboss
TI is the PDA application.
Finally, of their new product, they were showing the
evolution of their excellent Billboard technology, called
Billboard HD. It's, you guessed it, a High Definition
version of the Billboard, with beautiful clarity that is
readable from some distance. The viewing angle is over
170 degrees, which is impressive in itself.
IGT had an immense stand and, as the pre-show
publicity indicated, were promoting their 'Big
Picture'. At the centre of this bold vision is their sb
product line, their server-based gaming architecture,
the openness of which was demonstrated with IGT's
Advanced Video Platform machine, plus connections
(via sb Director and server) to WMS and Novomatic
slot machines. IGT's commitment, a view which is
growing industry-wide, is to quality and delivering
the best product they can to the customer, hence the
open platform, which utilises the GSA's G2S(Game to
Systems) and S2S (System to System) protocols. As
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