Acres Adds Four California Casinos to Growing Client Roster.

Business Editors

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000

Acres Gaming (Nasdaq:AGAM) today announced it has received deposits on contracts to install Acres Advantage(TM) systems in four additional California casinos.

The new customers are San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland, Colusa Casino and Bingo in Colusa, Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, and Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville. All four installations will include Acres' Wizard(TM) Slot Accounting, Prophet(TM) Player Tracking and Guardian(TM), the Company's new cage, credit and table games module. These new customers join previously announced orders from Table Mountain Rancheria Casino & Bingo and Cache Creek Indian Bingo & Casino. Orders from the California market now total $6.9 million with an additional $3.5 million expected if Table Mountain and San Manuel meet their expansion goals. The systems at Soboba and Eagle Mountain will feature Acres' Bonusing Technology(TM).

"These orders are a result of our commitment to serving the emerging market in California and the excellent reception our products have received," said Acres' President, Rich Schneider.

Acres Gaming provides products and services to casinos worldwide, using its proprietary Acres Bonusing Technology to increase player enjoyment and casino efficiency and profitability. Detailed descriptions of the promotions made available by Acres Bonusing(TM) as well as other products offered by Acres Gaming are available at the Company's Web site, www.acresgaming.com. The Company has offices in Las Vegas and Corvallis, Ore.

The discussion in this press release contains forward-looking statements (as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended). Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relate to expected revenues from contracts. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements: the possibility that the casinos will not expand as planned, the possibility that development, regulatory approval and installations of software products may not be completed or may not be completed as scheduled or phased, changes in federal or state laws or the administration of such laws, the expense and unpredictability of patent and other litigation and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2000. Actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements.