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Profile: IGT (Part 5)
In the vein of iconic TV shows, it has rolled out
games based on creepy classics Elvira, The Addams Family, and The
Munsters; sitcom greats like Bewitched, Gilligan’s Island, I Dream
of Jeannie, I Love Lucy, and The Beverly Hillbillies. Licensed slot
games have become huge throughout the American land-based and online
slot machine gambling markets in recent years, but IGT devices
always contain a certain extra something. Primarily, the company is
willing to shell out the bucks to get many of the original actors to
lend their voices for audio on the devices, and spares no expense in
turning out state-of-the-art graphics.
IGT also pioneered the field of online slot machine progressive
networks worth multiple millions of dollars in jackpots. For the
first time, the company linked several different devices (on the
World Wide Web, this could conceivably be thousands and thousand of
virtual pokies!) to a common jackpot that grows with every bet that
is not a win. You are much less likely to win the big prize at one
of these linked network games, but players usually don’t care a
whit. The potential for winning life-changing amounts of money seems
just as close as ever, and the prizes have never been bigger. Most
progressive jackpot slot games start with no less than fifty grand
(and sometimes one hundred!) in the pot, and only go up from there.
Make no bones about it, IGT has become the most-respected name in
the slot machine gambling business in part because of its
contributions to some of the most essential industry tenets, and its
several blockbuster titles.
Continue to part 6 here.
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