Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video
machines, casino-management, interactive applications, and
networked and server-based systems for the global gaming industry,
will have a prominent presence at NIGA’s Indian Gaming 2012
Tradeshow and Convention April 1-4 at the San Diego Convention
Center in booth #1929.
Bally Technologies to debut new Beach
Boys video slots at Indian Gaming 2012 conference and trade show.
(Photo: Business Wire)
Beach Boys Game Promises Fun, Fun, Fun!
Debuting for the first time ever, Bally Technologies will unveil
its new Beach Boys-themed video slots. These five-reel, 1,024-way
games, featured on Bally’s ALPHA 2™ Pro Series™ V22/22 Upright
Wheel cabinet, capture “America’s Band” to its fullest, immersing
players in the Southern California culture of surfing, sun, cars,
and romance with The Beach Boys songs and video clips. The games
feature five progressive jackpots, the U-Spin™ play mechanic, and
five of The Beach Boys most beloved songs including California
Girls, Fun, Fun, Fun, and I Get Around, enhanced by the custom Pro
Series surround-sound chair. The colorful Beach Boys Bonus Wheel
atop the game awards credits and one of the six U-Spin™ bonus
wheels for a chance to win one of the progressive jackpots.
“Tribal gaming operators are tremendous partners and supporters
of Bally Technologies, and we look forward to showcasing our latest
solutions to help them drive revenue and get greater operating
efficiencies in their casino operations,” said Derik Mooberry,
Senior Vice President of Products and Operations for Bally
Technologies. “Indian Gaming 2012 is the perfect environment to
showcase our new games, systems, and interactive solutions – all
designed to deliver a better player experience.”
Bally Interactive Provides One View of Player
Another show highlight will be the Bally Interactive display,
featuring the Company’s suite of online and mobile games –
interactive versions of popular Bally land-based games that offer
enhanced bonusing, proven play mechanics, and progressives. Bally
Interactive, through its cloud-based iGaming platform, mobile
solution, and Remote Gaming Server, offers a complete
business-to-business iGaming solution to enable casino operators to
augment their land-based casino gaming with both mobile and online
play-for-free and wager-based games, as well as custom mobile apps
and websites. The Company’s multi-channel solutions have
integration with Bally’s slot-management and casino-management
systems to give casinos a single view of their patrons and
powerful, enterprise-wide analytics.
The Bally Mobile team will also be on hand to give live
demonstrations of the Company’s cloud-based custom mobile apps and
mobile websites for casino patrons and internal-facing apps for
casino employees.
World-Class Licensed Brands
Also expected to draw a crowd are world-class licensed branded
games Michael Jackson King of Pop™, GREASE™, and a video-slot
adaptation of the arcade favorite SKEE-BALL®.
Part game, part concert, Michael Jackson King of Pop features
one of the most widely beloved and influential artists of all time
in an exciting, music-filled game on Bally’s new Pro Series™ V22/32
cabinet with the custom, Pro surround-sound chair. Offering
everything from mystery wilds bonuses and free games bonus events
and featuring hit songs Bad, Beat It, Billie Jean, Dirty Diana, and
Smooth Criminal, this game is highlighted by a U-Spin™ Platinum
Record Bonus and video clips showcasing the performer. Michael
Jackson is represented exclusively for licensing by the Bravado
International Group.
Inspired by the Paramount Pictures’ 1978 American musical film
about two love-struck teens in a 1950s high school, GREASE is
Bally’s first double-play game, featuring two, 25-line games –
enabling the player to play two games at once.
Another Indian Gaming 2012 spotlight is Betty Boop’s Fortune
Teller™, the new companion game to the hit Betty Boop’s Love
Meter™, which offers an unprecedented 15 bonuses at any bet and the
U-Spin fortune wheel and available on the ALPHA 2 Pro Hammerhead™
cabinet with a life-changing top progressive.
Arcade-Like Play on Slot Machines
Bally brings the arcade favorite SKEE-BALL® game to casinos on
its Pro V32 cabinet. The game includes a bonus feature in which
players touch and slide to throw the SKEE-BALL®, winning “tickets”
that enable them to “Pick a Prize” on the game that reveals credit
awards. There will be several Pro V32 games featured, including All
That Jazz™, which has a revolutionary iDeck feature called U-Play™,
in which players touch and play virtual piano keys.
For its Pro Upright and Slant core for-sale video cabinets,
Bally will showcase more than a dozen new game titles, including
the award-winning Fish’n for Loot™, named “2012 Best Slot Product”
and featuring the iDeck as an arcade-like player input device. This
exciting new game, along with another similar game called Total
Blast™, introduces Bally’s U-Shoot™ virtual shooting gallery
bonus-game play mechanic in which the player touches the iDeck to
create weapons for “shooting” at targets on the main game
screens.
Creating the Floor-Wide Player Experience
Bally’s extensive systems and server-based solution showcase
will feature the Company’s suite of casino and slot-management
systems for every size of casino – SDS™, CMP™, and CoolSign®
media-management.
Indian Gaming 2012 attendees can experience live demonstrations
of iVIEW Display Manager™ (DM), an interactive communication tool
used by players and controlled by the gaming operator. This
picture-in-picture style player-user-interface is backward
compatible on any gaming device with a touch-screen display, and
provides a way for casino operators to present self-service
player-account access, marketing messages, and secondary bonus
games on the main game screen – without interrupting play.
Another show highlight will be Bally’s Elite Bonusing Suite™
(EBS), which, when combined with the iVIEW and iVIEW DM
player-user-interfaces, adds dramatic new levels of excitement and
anticipation to the slot-play experience. The EBS applications
delivers floor-wide, interactive promotions, second-chance-to-win
events, and the ability for players to earn valuable rewards, all
without interrupting play on the base game.
The EBS DM Tournaments™ app recently powered the “World’s
Largest Slot Tournament” at Pechanga Resort & Casino, which
enabled 1,100 players to simultaneously compete in a tournament on
slot cabinets made by five different manufacturers. With Bally’s
iVIEW DM and DM Tournaments, any machine with the technology
installed, anywhere on the floor, can be turned into a tournament
slot and then turned back to normal game-play mode right
afterwards.
About Bally Technologies,
Inc.
With a history dating back to 1932, Las Vegas-based Bally
Technologies designs, manufactures, operates, and distributes
advanced gaming devices, systems and technology solutions
worldwide. Bally’s product line includes reel-spinning slot
machines, video slots, wide-area progressives, interactive and
mobile applications, and Class II, lottery, and
central-determination games and platforms. Bally also offers an
array of casino management, slot accounting, bonusing, cashless and
table management solutions. For more information, please contact
Laura Olson-Reyes, Senior Director, Marketing & Corporate
Communications, at 702-584-7742, or visit http://www.ballytech.com.
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is subject to the safe harbor created thereby. Such information
involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly
affect the results in the future and, accordingly, such results may
differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements.
Future operating results may be adversely affected as a result of a
number of risks that are detailed from time to time in the
Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
Company undertakes no obligation to update the information in this
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of today’s date.
– BALLY TECHNOLOGIES, INC. –
The Beach Boys is a trademark of Brother Records, Inc. and is
used under license by Bally Gaming, Inc. ©2012. Michael Jackson −
©2012 Triumph International, Inc. under license from Bravado
Merchandising. All rights reserved. GREASE − ©2012 Paramount
Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Playboy − SKEE-BALL® − ©2012
SKEE-BALL®, Inc. & ® All Rights Reserved. Used Under
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