Astra Games moving to the Pub Sector

Reel King · Post by **Reel King** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:04 pm

http://www.novomatic.com/en/astra/astra ... g_solution

Astra joining with Gamestec

can't wait to see the results

clarkey1984 · Post by **clarkey1984** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:17 pm

This news makes the baby jesus cry.

Mr Move It · Post by **Mr Move It** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:43 pm

The punters will be listening to the ding-ding-ding-ding-ding from Reel King, coming to a pub near you soon :-)

AMK · Post by **AMK** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:21 pm

Oh no. This is like the worst news ever!!

tommya · Post by **tommya** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:50 pm

they dont work in pubs, the games have been out for ages reel king pub etc etc there all shoved in services.

Glendale · Post by **Glendale** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:54 pm

Theres never bad news! Just new ways if doing things! I remember the depression when machines dissapeared years ago!

AMK · Post by **AMK** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:13 pm

Yeah we all cried when lineup got chipped.

Cutherz · Post by **Cutherz** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:27 pm

Both astra and gametec suck, so I wouldn't get too excited.

redlinesman · Post by **redlinesman** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:21 pm

It's suposed to be the first real effort to cross over to digital and a new era of cat c machines.

Mr McStreak · Post by **Mr McStreak** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:34 am

Not really. It's a simple case of Astra hosting bell fruit games on their new cabinets, because they can afford to do so, and Bell fruit can't. It won't catch on. People like to see reels physically going round, not replicated on a screen.

Captain.Tattybojangles · Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:12 am

No pub's interested in Astra shit...
NO DEAL

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:20 am

depends if they try something new. anything without a grid of boxes that sometimes go red would be a nice move

Captain.Tattybojangles · Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:49 pm

Yeah, to be honest I would be interested in seeing Astra try and make a hitech machine. But if they're just going to deal in lotecs then this plan is doomed

Mr Move It · Post by **Mr Move It** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:52 pm

Will Astra be making video AWPs (like Juice machines) or good old fashioned AWPs? Like what Mr McStreak said though, I'm hoping that it's the latter.

Am I right in thinking that Reel King is Astra's mascot character? It'll be interesting how they'll implement it as an AWP. Perhaps the Reel King feature could be a superboard or a superspins type set-up on a 2nd set of reels which accumulates on a cash meter. Having said that though, it'll probably be too similar to some Vivid machines e.g. Pie Factory and Six Shooter.

redlinesman · Post by **redlinesman** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:06 am

Fair points, but I know for a fact than the industry is desperate to go digital. They want to make money and analogue machines just don't cut the mustard in terms of profit anymore. Even some of the big contracts don't pull in enougth coin if it wasn't for the DOND franchise digital machines would have been brought in around 2 years to take over.

Sceptre and Gamestec now have different aims from what they had pre £70 and are happy to downgrade their portfolios in the current state of affairs. Once a digital game performs really well, that will be it and the floodgates will be opened. The fact is, the companies can not afford analogue for much longer, as Gamestecs MD Chris Butler said 'its bloody 2010 for christ sake' Chris has made it his aim to oversee the mass introduction of digital gaming before his reign is over.