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The Merkur Inspired joint venture’s Slant Top Evolution cabinet, recently approved by regulator the AAMS (and the duo’s third VLT cabinet to receive that endorsement), is to be rolled out to venues operated by Sisal Slot, including the Wincity chain of gaming halls. With a widescreen 26-inch top display and a 22-inch touchscreen, the Slant Top Evolution (pictured) operates on Inspired’s Open VLT platform. It joins the joint venture’s Storm and Prospero cabinets on the AAMS-approved roster.
Said Giacomo Bozzini, general manager at Merkur Inspired: “We are already proving with our incomes that this flexibility is the key to success, because different players like different gaming experiences – one cabinet or type of game does not suit all.”
Also in the Italian VLT arena, Astro’s Cristaltec operation is to supply games to Lottomatica Videolot Rete, one of the biggest VLT operators, through the Lottomatica subsidiary Spielo. Astro will provide five different games for 2600 machines on a profit-split basis.
Bally Technologies, too, will later this year start delivery of 800 games and systems to Lottomatica, bringing the Bally order book for Italy to more than 5000 devices.
Across the Ionian Sea, meanwhile, the next big European market for VLT technology and content suppliers (who also have North American territories to serve, notably Illinois) will be Greece.
There, the partially state-owned gambling monopoly OPAP will roll out up to 35,000 machines – many more per capita than in Italy, where about 55,000 licences were granted for a population roughly six times that of its smaller neighbour. Economic gloom doesn’t, it seems, put a damper on Mediterranean gaming mania.
