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Astra Games moving to the Pub Sector
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:04 pm
by Reel King
http://www.novomatic.com/en/astra/astra ... g_solution
Astra joining with Gamestec
can't wait to see the results
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:17 pm
by clarkey1984
This news makes the baby jesus cry.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:43 pm
by Mr Move It
The punters will be listening to the ding-ding-ding-ding-ding from Reel King, coming to a pub near you soon :-)
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:21 pm
by AMK
Oh no. This is like the worst news ever!!
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:50 pm
by tommya
they dont work in pubs, the games have been out for ages reel king pub etc etc there all shoved in services.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:54 pm
by Glendale
Theres never bad news! Just new ways if doing things! I remember the depression when machines dissapeared years ago!
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:13 pm
by AMK
Yeah we all cried when lineup got chipped.
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:27 pm
by Cutherz
Both astra and gametec suck, so I wouldn't get too excited.
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:21 pm
by redlinesman
It's suposed to be the first real effort to cross over to digital and a new era of cat c machines.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:34 am
by Mr McStreak
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.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:12 am
by Captain.Tattybojangles
No pub's interested in Astra shit...
NO DEAL
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:20 am
by Spyder
depends if they try something new. anything without a grid of boxes that sometimes go red would be a nice move
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:49 pm
by Captain.Tattybojangles
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
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:52 pm
by Mr Move It
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.
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:06 am
by redlinesman
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.