LAS VEGAS, Jan. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games
Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company")
received extensive recognition as a favorite among slot players as
a part of Strictly Slots magazine's "The Best Of Slots
2016".
Strictly Slots annually polls its readers, who are gaming
enthusiasts and players, and compiles its "Best Of Slots" awards
among thousands of votes.
Scientific Games' products received first place in the
categories of 'Favorite Video Slot Machine' and 'Favorite Video
Slot Theme' for THE WIZARD OF OZ™, and 'Favorite
Video Slot Bonus Round' for MONOPOLY™.
In addition, Scientific Games ranked among the top five in
multiple other categories:
FAVORITE VIDEO SLOT MACHINE
- THE WIZARD OF OZ– First Place
- MONOPOLY – Third Place
FAVORITE VIDEO SLOT THEME
- THE WIZARD OF OZ – First Place
- MONOPOLY – Second Place
FAVORITE VIDEO SLOT BONUS ROUND
- MONOPOLY – First Place
- THE WIZARD OF OZ – Fifth Place
FAVORITE REEL SLOT MACHINE
- Quick Hit® – Fourth Place
- Blazing 7s® – Fifth Place
FAVORITE REEL SLOT THEME
- Quick Hit – Second Place
- Blazing 7s – Third Place
- THE WIZARD OF OZ – Fourth Place
FAVORITE REEL SLOT BONUS ROUND
- Quick Hit – Second Place
- Reel 'em In® – Third Place
- THE WIZARD OF OZ – Fourth Place
FAVORITE PROGRESSIVE SLOT MACHINE
- MONOPOLY – Third Place
- Quick Hit – Fourth Place
- THE WIZARD OF OZ – Fifth Place
Scientific Games Group Chief Executive, Gaming Derik Mooberry
said, "This is an incredible honor for our company and for our
products. We take pride in knowing players selected our innovative
games as their favorites, which speaks highly of the work being
done by our game development, marketing and sales teams. This level
of recognition will only further drive us to improve upon our many
innovation initiatives to provide the most entertaining and
engaging play experience for our customers."
THE WIZARD OF OZ has been the publication's favorite
video slot since its introduction in 2007. The game features the
sights and sounds of the original 1939 classic and uses "Sensory
Immersion" to bring players into the game like nothing before
it.
MONOPOLY has also been featured multiple times as a
winner in the Favorite Video Slot Bonus Round category, due in part
to players' love for the popular brand. The game's bonus round
works in the classic MONOPOLY board and rewards players
certain amounts of credits for landing on different properties.
MONOPOLY is a trademark of Hasbro. Used with
permission. ©2017 Hasbro. All rights
reserved. THE WIZARD OF OZ and all related characters and elements
are trademarks of and © Turner Entertainment Co. (s17) Judy Garland as Dorothy from THE WIZARD OF OZ.
(s17)
All ® notices signify marks registered in the United States.
© 2017 Scientific Games Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
About Scientific Games
Scientific Games
Corporation (NASDAQ:SGMS) is a leading developer of
technology-based products and services and associated content for
worldwide gaming, lottery and interactive markets. The Company's
portfolio includes gaming machines, game content and systems; table
games products and shufflers; instant and draw-based lottery games;
server-based lottery and gaming systems; sports betting technology;
loyalty and rewards programs; and interactive content and services.
For more information, please visit ScientificGames.com.
COMPANY CONTACTS:
Investor
Relations:
Scientific Games: Bill Pfund +1 702-532-7663
Vice President, Investor Relations
bill.pfund@scientificgames.com
Media Relations:
Scientific Games: Susan Cartwright +1 702-532-7981
Vice President, Corporate Communications
susan.cartwright@scientificgames.com
Forward-Looking Statements
In this press release, Scientific Games makes "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe
future expectations, plans, results or strategies and can often be
identified by the use of terminology such as "may," "will,"
"estimate," "intend," "plan," "continue," "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "target," "should," "could," "potential,"
"opportunity," "goal," or similar terminology. These statements are
based upon management's current expectations, assumptions and
estimates and are not guarantees of timing, future results or
performance. Actual results may differ materially from those
contemplated in these statements due to a variety of risks and
uncertainties and other factors, including, among other things:
competition; U.S. and international economic and industry
conditions, including declines in or slow growth of gross gaming
revenues or lottery retail sales, reductions in or constraints on
capital spending by gaming or lottery operators and bankruptcies
of, or credit risk relating to, customers; limited growth from new
gaming jurisdictions, declines in the replacement cycle of existing
gaming machines and slow addition of casinos in existing
jurisdictions; ownership changes and consolidation in the gaming
industry, including by casino operators; opposition to legalized
gaming or the expansion thereof; inability to adapt to, and offer
products that keep pace with, evolving technology; inability to
develop successful gaming concepts and content; laws and government
regulations, including those relating to gaming licenses and
environmental laws; inability to identify and capitalize on trends
and changes in the gaming, lottery and interactive industries;
dependence upon key providers in our social gaming business;
inability to retain or renew, or unfavorable revisions of, existing
contracts, and the inability to enter into new contracts; level of
our indebtedness, higher interest rates, availability or adequacy
of cash flows and liquidity to satisfy indebtedness, other
obligations or future cash needs; inability to reduce or refinance
our indebtedness; restrictions and covenants in our debt
agreements, including those that could result in acceleration of
the maturity of our indebtedness; protection of our intellectual
property, inability to license third party intellectual property,
and the intellectual property rights of others; security and
integrity of our software and systems and reliance on or failures
in our information technology systems; natural events that disrupt
our operations or those of our customers, suppliers or regulators;
inability to benefit from, and risks associated with, strategic
equity investments and relationships, including (i) the inability
of our joint venture to realize the anticipated benefits under its
private management agreement with the Illinois lottery or from the disentanglement
services performed in connection with the termination thereof, (ii)
the inability of our joint venture to meet the net income targets
or other requirements under its agreement to provide marketing and
sales services to the New Jersey Lottery or otherwise to realize
the anticipated benefits under such agreement and (iii) failure to
realize the anticipated benefits related to the award to our
consortium of an instant lottery game concession in Greece; failure to achieve the intended
benefits of the Bally acquisition or the WMS acquisition, other
recent acquisitions, or future acquisitions, including due to the
inability to successfully integrate such acquisitions or realize
synergies in the anticipated amounts or within the contemplated
time frames or cost expectations, or at all; disruption of our
current plans and operations in connection with our recent
acquisitions (including in connection with the integration of Bally
and WMS), including departure of key personnel or inability to
recruit additional qualified personnel or maintain relationships
with customers, suppliers or other third parties; incurrence of
employee termination or restructuring costs, and impairment or
asset write-down charges; changes in estimates or judgments related
to our impairment analysis of goodwill or other intangible assets;
implementation of complex revenue recognition standards;
fluctuations in our results due to seasonality and other factors;
dependence on suppliers and manufacturers; risks relating to
foreign operations, including fluctuations in foreign currency
exchange rates (including those fluctuations related to the
affirmative vote in the U.K. to withdraw from the EU), restrictions
on the payment of dividends from earnings, restrictions on the
import of products and financial instability, including the
potential impact to our business resulting from the affirmative
vote in the U.K. to withdraw from the EU and the potential impact
to our instant lottery game concession or VLT lease arrangements
resulting from the recent economic and political conditions in
Greece; dependence on our key
employees; litigation and other liabilities relating to our
business, including litigation and liabilities relating to our
contracts and licenses, our products and systems, our employees
(including labor disputes), intellectual property and our strategic
relationships; influence of certain stockholders; and stock price
volatility.
Additional information regarding risks, uncertainties and other
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those contemplated in forward-looking statements is included from
time to time in our filings with the SEC, including the Company's
current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its
latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on
February 29, 2016 (including under
the headings "Forward Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors").
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made
and, except for Scientific Games' ongoing obligations under the
U.S. federal securities laws, Scientific Games undertakes no
obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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