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G2E company has ever seen. So whereas we hoped one or two of them would work, it’s clear to us that all three have worked, and now we’re commercializing Adaptive Gaming.” Adaptive Gaming is a fourth line WMS introduced last year, with its three-in-one Star Trek slots. Collecting medals during play can unlock second and third game themes, and the games can let players pick up where they left off, remembering through WMS’ wide-area network. This year, WMS extended Adaptive Gaming by adding a fourth Star Trek theme, The Enterprise Incident. Under its Community Gaming product, WMS went beyond the “everyone wins together” style that it debuted two years ago with Monopoly Big Event. In Reel ’Em In Compete to Win, WMS adds an element of competition to the shared bonus event. The bonus round is a fishing derby, and everybody wins bonus credits. Each fish is assigned a point value, and when you see a big-value fish swim onto the plasma screen overhead, the anticipation builds as players wonder if it’ll bite – and whose fisherman will reel it in. The player with the most points at the end of the round not only wins the accumulated credits but gets an extra bonus reward for winning the derby. In the community game Powerball Power Seat, when you get to the lottery-like bonus round, one player at the bank of machines is in the Power Seat. That’s a worthwhile position — the Power Seat player gets his or her bonus multiplied by 10. “As we segmented Sensory Immersion, we’re also segmenting Community Gaming. So Monopoly Big Event was a communal game, Power Seat is a communal game where one individual gets an extra benefit. Reel ’Em In Compete to Win is a community with competitive gaming in it. “We’re going to have future iterations of Monopoly, we’re going to have Goldfish [also refreshed at the expo in a Transmissive Reels version], we’re going to have multigame capabilities,” Bone said. “And then you’re going to see us, we already have, start to cross-pollinate, so you’ll see Community Gaming with Transmissive Reels, you’ll see Sensory Immersion with certain attributes and new technology.” WMS mixes technologies, using Transmissive Reels and Commmunity Gaming together on the three-reel Monopoly Grand Hotel Big Event. There’s a bit of a competitive element, too, as players choose characters to cheer on during the bonus event. Under a new Innovations series, WMS showed its own four-in-one game, with four sets of reels on one screen in Super MultiPay. A single button push spins four sets of reels, with players getting four separate results and four chances at bonus events. Each set of reels has five reels and 20 pay lines, so you have the opportunity to play 80 pay lines overall. One unique feature is that SLOT REPORT special wild symbols that occur on the first reel set then will be repeated on the others, and those on the second screen are transferred to the third and fourth, and so on. So in the theme Silver Sword, a sword on the upper left reels can set you up for winners through all four games. There can be fun in chaos, and WMS finds it in Lucky Penny, a five-reel video slot in which just about anything can happen at any time. Penguins appear at random, waddling, gliding, even canoeing across the screen, changing symbols, creating pays and launching bonus rounds. It’s part of a new Bonus Bank series of games that feature what WMS is calling ARIA, for “Advanced Random Intelligence Algorithm.” There are trillions of possibilities — Bone said it’s unlikely you’ll ever see the bonus rounds play out the same way twice. Big Event Poker is WMS’ bid to make a dent in the video poker market — a tough chores, given IGT’s dominance. This is a poker game with a community-style bonus event. For a two-credit side bet, players at standard video poker games have a chance at going to a bonus event that can be triggered by any player at the bank of games. There are five bonus events, including Big Event Four to a Royal, in which every player at the bank starts with four cards to a royal flush. Each then gets a random draw out of a separate deck of the remaining 48 cards – each has 1 in 48 chance at a royal. SlotManager THE GAMING INDUSTRYʼS LEADING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE Join top technology professionals and industry leaders from around the world as they address real-world technology challenges and solutions for the gaming industry in a unique setting full of hands-on technology updates, insights and strategies. MAY 19-21, 2009 GREEN VALLEY RANCH LAS VEGAS To reserve your exhibitor/sponsorship package, please contact: Lesley Grashow (203) 938-2782 or grashowl@bnpmedia.com www.slotmanager.net ❘ JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 ❘ SLOT MANAGER 25 http://www.slotmanager.net

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Slot Manager - January 2009

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