Multiplayer electronic gaming machines revolutionised live table play. A range of industry experts offer their views on recent innovations.
IT is impossible to review the subject of multiplayer electronic gaming machines without noting the town of Gumpoldskirchen in Austria as an accurate starting point.
It was here, during the mid 1990s and at a time when the numbers of players at live tables were deteriorating to an all-time low, that the founder of Novomatic, Professor Johann F Graf, and the Austrian Gaming Industries research and development team pioneered a gaming product that combined the best of both slot and live table play: the first electronic live-gaming multiplayer product, Novo TouchBet Live-Roulette.
It was an instant success and created a whole new dimension in gaming entertainment. Since then the Novomatic multiplayer product family has gained numerous new members and attracted significant international success in casinos all around the world.
The concept of joining a table game via individual player terminals has convinced live-gaming purists as well as newcomers, confident high rollers as well as timid beginners and even won entirely new audiences for traditional casino table games. The almost two decades of constant development and refinement of the Novomatic multiplayer product offering has seen many great advances in gaming entertainment.
Read the full article in the September issue of InterGaming.
