Pokies and Slot Machine Information

Gaming expo exhibitor - pokies manufacturer Ainsworth

September 26, 2006 on 7:00 pm | In Australasian Gaming Conference |

Another large exhibitor. Recently rebranded from A-G-T.

Exhibitor in a nutshell:
Display area : large.
Gaming machine selection : large.
Staff knowledge/approachability : good-excellent.

An impressive effort from this pokies exhibitor. To this day the excellent payout music on their new range of machines reverberates throughout our minds.

The vendor had a large number of machines on display, from the old style Ambassador machines with their sideways mounted 29″ (68cm) CRT screens, to the all new range of Ambassador machines with superb 26″ sideways mounted LCD screens. The only downside to the new screens appears to be that there is a lot more chrome on display around the sides of the screen - a bit visually distracting.

A-G-T machines were one of the pioneers of the dynamic paytable. The display screens are sufficiently high to allow simultaneous display of the game reels and a dynamic paytable. The top of the screen is also usable during the feature free games as a second screen area.

Redesign of the gaming machine cabinet appears to remove a problem with the old design - players could rest drinks adjacent to the buttons, with potentially disastrous consequences.

Games on display varied from fairly old to brand new. The new games have a vastly improved scrolling mechanism, superb music and very nice graphics.

It can be slightly distracting when moving from game to game, as the aspect ratio of the game reels on different machines appears to vary - but the distraction is only momentary.

According to the reps, one of the new games is outperforming a lot of other new games on the market - and its easy to see why.

Overall rating: 4.0 / 5 stars. Would have been higher if the mix of old/new machines was more highly geared to the new ones. Some new titles in the brochures didn’t appear to be on the floor.