What you’ll see at the Incredible Technologies booth at the Indian Gaming Tradeshow and Convention, you can actually get right away.
“We’ve been working hard to provide a robust library for our current cabinets, and there’s no better way to show it than to tell customers it’s available right now,” said Shawn Cassatt, director of product management for Incredible Technologies, an Illinois-based slot supplier. Of the company’s 12 slot themes to be displayed at IGA booth 1317, eight recently came on the market and the other four should be available within two months.
Cassatt said the Prism Spark cabinet, the most recently released hardware to be featured, has outsold its first two partial production runs. It boasts a 43-inch curved screen and a 27-inch topper with an integrated light show. Popular games for the Prism Spark include Double Stack Up Pays Island Riches, Combo Pays Five Pillars, and Reel Scorcher Island Legacy. He said Double Stack Up Pays, a new title in one of IT’s most popular families, has been cited in third-party assessments of top-performing slots.
Super Push Firebird Festival, an evolution of IT’s Power Push line, was formally released March 23, but has already appeared on third-party best-performance lists, Cassatt said. “We were testing it and it was supposed to be a little more secret, but (performance reports) accidentally got sent in with the rest of their games from some of our partners,” he explained. “I had to make a few phone calls when it showed up at the No. 4 spot on the top 25 new games.”
Cassatt predicted Double Stack Up Pays, Lamp of Luxury, and Firebird Festival will generate intense interest at IGA, citing the history of their slot families, the excitement already expressed by customers, and the games’ performance.
Double Stack Up Pays features a unique reel-expansion mechanic that can increase the number of ways to win from 243 in the base game to as many as 100,000 in a bonus round. Reel expansions won during the base game show up randomly in the bonus round, providing the volatility that appeals to the avid players who enjoy taking a shot at big jackpots, Cassatt said.
Lamp of Luxury, a 25-line game for the 10-feet-tall Prism Skybox cabinet, is popular among operators and players, Cassatt said. A single coin symbol that displays during the base game can trigger a bonus round and a six-coin display guarantees it.
Firebird Festival, a 243-way game also on the Prism Skybox, revives the attraction of coin-pusher-style bonuses, while adding a progressive jackpot, either standalone or linked, and leaderboard listings.
The IGA tradeshow is especially important to IT, which has released nine new slot themes already this year and plans to release 18 each in Class 2 and Class 3 slots by the end of the year. That’s not all.
“The Skybox (cabinet) performance is stronger now than it has been since its launch, and that was before we just released another top performing theme,” Cassatt said. “Spark has hit the ground running really well, but we want to show customers how much we’re going to support that on a consistent basis, so they can more confidently get that second or third bank of games.”
IT, founded in 1985 and privately owned, originally focused on arcade games, including Golden Tee Golf, which is still wildly popular for its worldwide online tournament play with real-money prizes. The company’s first slot machine lines hit casino floors in 2011 and it now produces Class II, Class III, and HHR slots. IT is licensed in 250 jurisdictions covering most of the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, France, Netherlands, and the Caribbean islands.
“No matter how you look at it, we’ve both developed and will be releasing more games in the first half of this year than we did last year. We’re focused on that consistent supply of content,” Cassatt said. “We’ve got a great library right now, and we’ve got a lot more coming out. It’s all tangible, either available right now or just around the corner.”
