Inside Asian Gaming

May 2016 inside asian gaming 55 SCIENTIFIC GAMES Scientific Games provides a complete range of progressive slot products, offering games with standalone progressives, multi-level linked progressives, mystery progressives
and wide area progressives. Many of their most popular games, like Blazing 7’s, Quick Hit, Hot Shot Progressive, Life of Luxury, and 88 Fortunes have incorporated progressive jackpots and their wide range of WAP games include some of the top third-party brands in the industry today. The award winning, 88 Fortunes is currently one of Scientific Games’ most successful progressive slots. “The game is renowned across the globe and leads the market in the United States, Australia, and Asia,” Engleman says. “The unique theme, authentic Chinese artwork, enticing progressive jackpots starting at $10,000 for the penny denomination, and frequent jackpot hits set it apart from the competition.” In addition, Quick Hit progressive games continue to be a staple of progressive products in North America. The max bet progressive games come in countless styles, but all offer progressives that are triggered by scattered Quick Hit symbols on the reels. “Quick Hit progressive’s games have become so popular that casinos will include several banks of games in a single property,” says Engleman. TwinStar is one of Scientific Games latest games and offers two new styles of progressives with Bally’s new Quick Hit series Volcano and Jungle; each offering a five-level progressive jackpot. Additionally, Zeus Son of Kronos and Kronos Father of Zeus are WMS branded progressive games that are featured on TwinStar. AINSWORTH GAME TECHNOLOGY Progressive slots encompass a large part of business at Ainsworth. “Out of all the games we make, which is 60-plus games a year, 99 percent of have progressive or could have some sort of progressive on them,” Herrick says. Ainsworth is continuing to grow with customized progressives through the QX32 Link Controller which can run progressives on 1,000-plus Ainsworth machines. A single QX32 Link Controller can support 12 separate progressive parameter sets and each parameter set supports eight levels of progressives. Ainsworthisveryversatileintheprogressive market with standalone progressives, standalone mystery progressives, as well as linked symbol- driven and their most popular customizable linked mystery progressives, featuring customized start amounts, hit before amounts and increments. Sky High Stacks is the newest addition to Ainsworth’s Premium Plus range. Based on max bet jackpot play, Sky High Stacks features four standalone progressives, bonus prizes, special expanding wild symbols and other entertaining features. Moving forward, Ainsworth will be focusing on continuing and improving support of the QX32 Link Controller. “Initially we developed it and we put
it in the back of the closet where we could run Tech Talk progressive graphics off of it,” Herrick says. “Starting to advance that, and looking to do a wide area with it in the future, as well as some accounting features, remote auditing and hot swat backup, we have designed some new design packages [regular overhead, overhead topers, LCD toppers, or some LCD monitors]. It will support that with custom graphics.” 88 Fortunes Sky High Stacks