Atronic:South African Casinos enter the STARGATE™

by ATRONIC International GmbH

Luebbecke / Germany / 2010-02-16 (GlobalGamingPR) - JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (February 15, 2010) – ATRONIC and Atomic Gaming, ATRONIC´s distributor for Africa, are pleased to announce the installation of STARGATE SG-1™ in numerous casinos across South Africa.

Following the footsteps of casinos throughout Europe and Latin America, South African players can now enjoy a new dimension of linked gaming with ATRONIC´s multi-bonus progressive link STARGATE SG-1™.

Based on the popular movie and TV show, STARGATE SG-1 is the video slot version with five distinct bonuses that summon recognizable features from the STARGATE SG-1 series, like the Stargate Chevrons and Dial-Home Device. The player must bet max lines and side bet to trigger a bonus. Once triggered, one of the five bonuses is randomly selected. The excitement builds as the Stargate appears, seemingly ready to pick up players for a trip to explore the galaxy. The chevrons start illuminating and continue to glow as the player selects a bonus.

December saw STARGATE SG-1 banks rolled out into a number of South African casinos, where they proved an immediate success. The first bank was installed on The Wild Coast Sun’s new refurbished gaming floor on ATRONIC’s e²SLANT™ cabinet.

Shortly thereafter, Carnival City installed a bank of STARGATE SG-1 boasting a magnificent sign complete with a 54” HD LCD screen.

“The bank looks amazing, and customers love it,” commented Piet Swanepoel from Carnival City.

The next property to introduce STARGATE SG-1 was the Golden Horse Casino in Pietermaritzburg. Players of Maritzburg have taken to STARGATE SG-1 on the e²™ machines like ducks to water, and the bank has been extremely busy since opening.

“Our players love the interactive bonuses that come up frequently and are always different, creating a sense of expectation,” stated Phil Hockaday, Golden Horse’s slots manager.

The Atomic Gaming technical team outshone themselves by installing STARGATE SG-1 into Emperor’s Palace, Sibaya and Boardwalk Casino all on the same day. Like a shotgun start at a golf tournament, Susan Ranamane and the Emperor’s technicians installed the e² machines into a smoking area, while Donovan Govender and Sibaya’s “We can do IT!” team dived into installing the e²SLANT machines onto Sibaya’s main floor. Meanwhile, Andrew Stewart, together with Billy Jukes’s team from Boardwalk, tackled the e²SLANT machines in Port Elizabeth. Haldane Holm, Technical Manager at Sibaya, only had praise for Donovan: “Donovan was really great, a huge help and went beyond what we expected of him. Thanks!!”

Gerhard Reiter, ATRONIC International’s Product Manager responsible for Africa, said, “We have been monitoring the performance of STARGATE SG-1 since the machines went onto the floors in South Africa, and in some cases the performance is double the area average, which is also what we are seeing in Europe.”

For more information on STARGATE SG-1 please contact Atomic Gaming at
+27 11 542 7550.


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