G2E Preview : Part 10: Bingo
The final entries to this 10 part series on G2E and what to look for on the exhibition floor involve two separate companies, not related to each other, but both leaders in the modernization and resurgence of traditional bingo: Ortiz and Video King. The new games have been called Bingo on Steroids.
Ortiz Gaming
www.ortizgaming.com
G2E Booth #3267 & #3867
Video King
www.videokingnetwork.com
G2E Booth #3030
First lets look at Ortiz This year Ortiz has doubled it’s booth space to make room for all their new offerings: new slot and keno games, bingo games now in new land-based and interactive gaming modules, new hardware, game features, and cabinets.
Ortiz has unleashed bingo by expanding electronic games and Class II machines to multiple options available from their interactive division, Ortiz Interactive. They will be unveiling new takes on games - from online to server based to electronic bingo - and everything in between. Their number one game in America, Six Bingo, will be featured across multiple platforms at the show. The game features rich graphics, engaging sound, and exciting bonuses. It is the best of both worlds, melding iconic bingo with the technology of gaming, making it an experience for players.
The second company generating excitement with the bingo crowd, is Video King. Two products to look for are Champ-e, the company’s new Android gaming tablet, and Charge-e, a patent pending wireless charging rack with possible applications beyond the gaming floor. The tablet features a sleeker WiFi design, brighter 1280 x 800 pixel screen, greater processing power, and a 10 plus hour run time. Bingo Boom, a unique Social Bingo game network allows Bingo halls to deliver a wide range of games to players on their computers, tablets, mobile phones, and Facebook.
According to CEO Tim Stuart of Video King, his company has created a range of in-house games that can be adapted to third-party platforms and can also port third-party games to its own devices. Each game is electronic but they are traditional Class II titles as opposed to those offered on terminal devices by Ortiz and Zitro, games he describes kiddingly as “Class 2.9” as the results are mapped much more closely to casino-style slots. “Our games aren’t part of the casino floor,” says Mr. Stuart. “We’re firmly in the bingo room which is actually becoming a major part of many casinos in the US.”
One final thought from Mr. Stuart. If you haven’t visited a bingo parlor in a while you may not recognize how the game has changed. “We’re witnessing a grass-fire genesis of bingo in big cities that have embraced game show-like experiences, black-light, DJs, cosmic bingo in enormous rooms where players dance between game.” he says.
“It’s fun, its crazy. We’re seeing the evolution of what’s being termed bingo-tainment where machines and tablets deliver bingo to charitable gaming markets, for cruise ships, the military, casino regulated jurisdictions and Indian gaming markets.”
Bingo is not your grandma’s game anymore!
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