LAS VEGAS — With the gambling industry anxious to attract younger players, some slot machine makers are looking to challenge the generation raised on video games. In Mexico City, Merkur Gaming is testing a slot machine that has players sit inside a cozy, futuristic-looking orb much like sensory heavy arcade video games. At a recent convention of casino game makers in Las Vegas, Edvard Toth, studio head for Gamblit Gaming in Glendale (Los Angeles County), sat in front of a four-sided touch-screen table showing how a flick of his finger could launch a virtual slingshot sending a puppy clad in a police uniform flying toward a zombie cat. The company strategy is to appeal to players 21 to 45 who will recognize the games it wants to bring to U.S. casinos — Lucky Words (think Scrabble), Police Pooches (like Angry Birds), Dreadnaught (like Battleship) and Raze (think Risk). With that in mind, makers of more traditional slot machines are offering models with themes incorporating reality TV shows, 1970s superheroes and 1990s sitcom characters.
Reported by SFGate 23 hours ago.
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