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PRODUCT FOCUS
Touchscreen displays
D
isplay Technology the displays,
interface, embedded computer and
touchscreen specialist is please to
Suzo in Sweden
announce its new 22” Widescreen
Gaming Monitor designed for portrait
and landscape gaming applications.
Manufactured for long-term availability,
S
weden is a country with a relatively short casino history. The first all aspects of the design from mechanical
casino was inaugurated in 2001 and its fourth in 2003. The four parts to future upgrading of the LCD
casinos form the Casino Cosmopol group, which is a subsidiary to Svenska panel can be controlled, so no change to
Spel, the largest gaming company in Sweden. Svenska Spel is wholly owned the overall form and no external changes
by the Swedish State. The four casinos are located in Stockholm, to the customer.
Gothenburg, Malmö and Sundsvall. The new 22” widescreen monitor
The youth and vitality of the Swedish casino industry is reflected in how delivers a cost-effective touch and non-
quickly casino management can adopt market innovations. The Swedish touch solution and features an injection
psychology of consideration and thus choosing the correct market trend is moulded narrow bezel design to protect against dirt and dust with a
reflected here. The natural move was to adopt a form of cashless gaming slim profile that makes ideal for gaming and casino style applications.
but the question was which one. The casino management chose ticket-in, In addition to the quality and cost benefits, the 22” monitor offers a
ticket-out (TITO) as the way forward for the 1000 slots in operation. Two long lasting life cycle with a three-year guarantee. Display Technology
major factors weighed in favour of TITO over a card system – its simplicity has one of the widest ranges of TFT LCD interface solutions in Europe,
to handle (for the operator) and the simplicity to understand (for the player). with in-house custom design facilities and worldwide support with
Thus, casino management foresee that their staff will have more time to offices in UK, Germany, Turkey and USA.
focus on their guests as spending time “running around” to pay handpays is
now a thing of the past. Having considered the advantages of TITO over
cards, the next question was which printer solution to adopt. Again Swedish
consideration was key to take a long-term approach of the benefits each
individual company could offer. Having weighed up all options, casino
management made a clear choice – of the printer solution of FutureLogic’s
Dance Dance Revolution X
GEN2 combined with the service of Suzo International.
Erik Wijma, Business Manager of Suzo International’s Casino Group, explains,
"European Casinos are witnessing the benefits of working together with Suzo. We K
onami Digital Entertainment B.V. has released the latest addition to the
BEMANI music simulation collection, Dance Dance Revolution X (DDR X).
have an excellent infrastructure with technical and commercial staff with direct Ten years after the first original release in 1998, Konami is set to launch
support at the casinos. Casinos appreciate that we can offer them world class the latest version of the DDR series. DDR X shows the evolution of the
solutions and in this case the combination of the support of Suzo and FutureLogic game, incorporating 10 years of innovation and creativity.
together with the proven printer technology of the GEN2 made us stand out The new version has kept many of its original features that made DDR
strongly against the competition. This made the decision on which printer to take one of the best amusement dance machines on the market. But with a fresh
much simpler for the management team at Casino Cosmopol. We thank them for new cabinet design and some new and exciting surprises, DDR X is set to
their trust and look forward to serving them on a long-term basis." blast away both existing and new players.
Casinos Stockholm and Gothenburg have now gone live with TITO with Aiming for a truly global release, the brand name has been changed from
Casinos Malmö and Sundsvall to adopt TITO shortly after the summer. Dancing Stage to Dance Dance Revolution on this model and all future
models.
The game is set to be tested in Europe and the US in the upcoming
New The Alps+ series
months, prior to the much anticipated planned launch.
U
nicum Gaming Group of companies has released the new The
Alps+ series. The series include five brand new video slot 9-lines
games: Anubis Secret, Dream of Knight, Lucky Magic, Submarine
Adventure and The Big Money's Scent. “The Alps+ are the games with
the advanced approach to artwork and game scenarios,” commented
Alexey Kuzmin, Unicum Gaming Marketing Director.
“Based on long-term experience in game development, results of the
latest marketing researches and the players` psychology studies,
specialists of both R&D and Marketing departments created series with
impressive level of attractiveness and usability,” he added.
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