Alliance Gaming to Introduce Full Range of New Products to Gaming Industry.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1998--Alliance Gaming Corp. (Nasdaq:ALLY) Monday announced its Bally bally Adjective, adv Brit old-fashioned, slang extreme or extremely: a bally nuisance, he's too bally charming for his own good Adj. 1. Gaming and Systems business will introduce an array of new gaming products at the World Gaming Congress & Expo in Las Vegas on Sept. 23 through 25. The first new unveiling will be an adaptation of television's longest-running prime-time game show, "Let's Make a Deal Let's Make a Deal is a television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show was based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. ." Developed for Bally Gaming's 3-D video Game Magic platform, Let's Make a Deal incorporates full-motion video Video transmission that changes the image 30 frames per second (30 fps). Motion pictures are run at 24 fps, which is the minimum frequency required to eliminate the perception of moving frames and make the images appear visually fluid to the eye. sequences and real voice-overs from the show's emcee, Monty Hall Maurice "Monty Hall" Halperin, O.C., B.Sc., LL.D (born August 25 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian-born actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as the host of the long-running television game show Let's Make a Deal. . Hall will make a special appearance at the Bally Gaming booth on the second day of the expo to help introduce the new game. "We expect operators and players to enjoy the entertaining experience of `Let's Make a Deal,'" said Morry Goldstein, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Alliance Gaming Alliance Gaming NYSE: AGI is a Las Vegas, Nevada based manufacturer of slot machines and casino management software. History On June 18, 1996 merged with Bally Gaming International. . "All the fun and zany features of the show have been thoughtfully carried over to this gaming product." Let's Make a Deal is a five-reel, five-line video slot that will launch players into two different bonus features. In one bonus screen, players can choose to either keep their winnings, or trade for what's behind one of three doors. In the other bonus screen, the player chooses from one of three audience characters in hopes of finding "Monty's Secret Envelope," containing a bonus prize. The game was jointly developed with Shuffle Master Inc., also a Las Vegas gaming supplier. Bally will also demonstrate its "Thrillions" progressive jackpot A progressive jackpot is a jackpot (highest payoff) for a gaming machine (usually a slot machine or video poker machine) where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played. system, the company's first offering for the multisite and intraproperty linked progressive market. This new system provides opportunities for casinos to link nickel, quarter, dollar, etc. machines to the same jackpot. Casinos also can uniquely theme the games on the system to their own brand. In addition to this system, Bally will be demonstrating its new generation of cashless wagering systems, new graphic interfaces for casino management, and the GameTime system, which provides dynamic slot bonusing promotions. Another new product to be debuted is "Bell Ringer," a new entrant en·trant n. One that enters, especially one that enters a competition. [French, from present participle of entrer, to enter, from Old French; see enter. in the second-feature bonus game market. By lining up the Bell Ringer symbol on the payline, players get a chance to "ring the bell" on the game's special carnival-style top box. While madcap music is played, lights and sound converge to replicate the nostalgic midway-style "test-your-strength" machines, and award players a bonus prize. Bally will demonstrate the Cash Cage bill-dispensing system, which already has gained considerable industry interest. This system has the potential to dramatically improve casino-customer satisfaction by reducing the number of coin-hopper fills and jackpots paid by attendants. Cash Cage is a currency-dispensing system for gaming machines that pays out bills or casino-customized scrip to patrons. The scrip can be used in other gaming machines or cashed out at the casino's cage. For its Pro-Series three-reel slot platform, Bally will be highlighting a new model that shows tremendous promise. "Roaring 20s" is a three-coin-maximum-bet game that features art-deco styling, ragtime ragtime: see jazz. ragtime U.S. popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries distinguished by its heavily syncopated rhythm. Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions, the accented left-hand sound, and a special re-spin feature that pays bonuses from 20-200 coins. "Roaring 20s has performed better on our in-casino model test program than any of the industry's mechanical reel-spinning games," said Goldstein. Alliance Gaming is a diversified gaming company with headquarters in Las Vegas. The company is engaged primarily in the design, manufacture and distribution of advanced gaming devices and systems worldwide, and is the nation's largest gaming-machine route operator and operates two regional casinos. |
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