Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | June 2012 32 M ulti-game platforms have always been a particular strength for global manufacturing giant Novomatic, and operators visiting the company’s exhibit at last month’s G2E Asia were treated to a look at one of the most powerful advancements in the concept with the Premium-V+ Gaminator. Fitted on Novomatic’s workhorse Coolfire II platform, and with a choice of 41 games on a single machine, the Premium V+ is guaranteed to have something to satisfy every player. Games are conveniently grouped into five categories for easy identification and access and individually color-coded for instant recognition. Players can choose from 10 of Novomatic’s most popular video slots in the “Classic Lines” category; or one of 10 top-performing 20-line games in “Multi Lines”; in the “Power Lines” category they can access four 40-line games; or they may opt for a more volatile gaming experience and go with “Fruits,” featuring 10 fast-paced fruit games; or they may want to change it up entirely and move over to the “Specials” category to play a little standalone roulette, poker or bingo. The Premium-V+ shares its cabinet architecture with the new Super-V+ Gaminator III, so it’s touchscreen-activated and features screens 24 inches wide for an exciting graphics experience and great sound courtesy of an active satellite speaker system with a subwoofer. It supports multiple denominations and can be customized for multiple languages, it’s TITO-ready, is available in a variety of button panel layouts, and comes with a pre-installed door module to fit in all existing player-tracking units. The Super-V+ was showcased in Macau with a progressive jackpot, “Rise of the Dragon,” on top of several of the latest titles: Garden of Fortune, Golden Scarabs II, Gorilla andWild Alaska. “All our machines are interconnected for a mystery progressive running on our Octavian jackpot controller,” explains spokesman Max Lindenberg. Coolfire II has the power to support a growing number of game mixes on both the Premium-V+ and Super V+ and is available in a variety of NovomaticMulti-ScreenTechnology cabinets.With support for five languages and multiple denominations, it’s designed for world travel. At G2E, two multi-games mixes in Chinese were shown on the platform. The idea, says Mr Lindenberg, who specializes in Marketing & Business Development for Austria-based Novomatic, is flexibility. “The operator can decide which way he wants to go, because on many gaming floors they want to have the translated games, and on others they do not, they want to still offer English-language games. We always have language options.” The Super-V+ comes with added spice in the form of Novomatic Reel Tournament, which allows a casino to inject the floor with an extra competitive thrill by convertingmulti-games into tournaments, instantly, in real time, on any number of connected machines. They can be configured for “Win Mode”—which offers continual play, where prior to the tournament all participants’ credits are set at zero, the winner being the player who achieves the highest number of credits over the duration of the tournament—or “Credit Mode,” where the participants start with the same preset credit balance and play for a set period of time to see who ends with the highest balance on the credit meter. “The operator can choose one game from multi-game mixes just by the push of a button,”Mr Lindenberg explains. “They can also do multi-session tournaments, no software changes required, and configure them back to normal mode again, with absolutely zero downtime on the floor.” Novomatic Multiplier Effect Novomatic develops innovative platforms for unrivalled game variety Novomatic’s G2E Asia team (from left to right): David Orrick, communications and business development director; Joe Pisano, CEO, Jade Entertainment and Gaming Technologies; and Novomatic’s head of marketing and business development, Max Lindenberg