Slot Machine Companies

Filed under: Slot Machines

The slot machine business is currently dominated by a half dozen large companies. They make most of the games that you play in casinos across the US. All of these large companies sell their games in two ways.

  1. Sold Games – These companies sell the machine with individual games, and they rent the machine with a premium slot machine game.  An example of the selling a game would IGT selling a single slot machine with the game Cleopatra. It would typically cost around 10,000 for a new game like that.
  2. Rented Games – A different kind of game with a premium theme is for example Wheel of Fortune. That is provided to the casino on a rental basis. They charge the casino a portion of the money that gets bet on the machine.   Often these games are the games that have large jackpots in the range of $500,000 to millions of dollars.  The rental fee is often between 30% and 15% of the money that is gambled on the machine.

The largest companies in the business are, in rough order from largest to smallest.

IGT – The largest company in the industry (International Game Technology).   They have the most games available, and are often referred to jokingly in the industry as the “800 lb gorilla.” More IGT Information.

Games of Note -  Wheel of Fortune – Megabucks – Red, White and Blue, Double Diamonds, Cleopatra, Wolf Run, Coyote Moon.

Aristocrat -  Based out of Australia they have the games that over the last decade have proven to the players favorites.

Games of Note – Penguin Pays,  Queen of the Nile, Pompeii (link to article) , Zorro, Cash Express, Cash Man, Lil Lucy, Dolphin Treasures.

Bally Gaming -  It is the oldest of the big companies and there is almost no casino in the country that doesn’t have their products.

Games of Note – Blazing Sevens, Betty Boop, Quick Hit, Monte Carlo, Black and White.

WMS -  Williams is recently know for making lots of innovative games and they have been making inroads against their competitors.

Game of Note – Recent games include John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and the popular Wizard of Oz.  Their all time hits are Jackpot Party, Reel Em In and Filthy Rich.

Atronic – European company which has a funny cabinet style and has put the Deal or No Deal game onto casino slot floors.

GTECH -  It is actually the large lottery company, but they are making their mark on the casino floor, especially with their purchase of Speilo.

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