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and this video American casino guide author Steve Boori travels to the
corporate headquarters a Bally Technologies in Las Vegas
to interview Mike Trask the company's senior corporate communications manager
while there they take a tour of the company's factory brawl that slot
machines are made
factor is also home to shuffle master which makes automatic shuffling machines
and digital table games
okay my car here at your corporate headquarters
and the right at the entrance here you have a display at all
are these all other machines oh this is far from all of our machine Steve we
make hundreds games over the course of the year but where you're standing is
where we show off our
the bulk of our new games to our customers are various other people who
come in to check them out so
all the latest and greatest are in this room I it's kinda for
a preview over the next few months I'll once they're here
next top as the casino floor again are you changing these out all the time its
new ones come out
news but once amp show it never ends are you know is slot games change every you
know six months to a year
there's going to be new titles so we're making you know hundreds of titles over
the course of the year
all the big ones come through here at one point in the
you know all of our big hits have come through here you've seen all different
kinds a quick eight games
both far michael Jackson titles have been prominently displayed in this area
on our on two fronts duck dynasty the blob all kinds of fun stuff we have
coming out in the next few months
and now when you manufacture the issue you to do in this building is
you do it elsewhere a where we manufacture these machines is about a
200-yard walk from here so it's very neat thing
are all within this facility you're seeing people who actually designed the
games
make all the graphics make all the math behind the games
you actually have people who put those games together play some
they come here then we have people who solemn so soup to Knotts are just about
everything we do to create games for the US market is within this building and
that's not to say our were not international here two games are shipped
out here all over the world
and I can we go over now and take a look at the manufacturing facility is that
okay
well are you gonna keep it secret Steve I'll just between
do any I let's take a walk and Mike before we were over in the executive
offices
and now we are in the manufacturing area this is a separate building how many
buildings are in the facility here
here at this location in Las Vegas we have five buildings we also have a
couple other spread around
around the city are in total there's dozens throughout the world about but
this is your main corporate headquarters correct correct rate here Las Vegas
corner brilliant sunset
that is our corporate headquarters now this is where all the some machines are
made are you have other manufacturing facilities around the world
correct where you're standing right now is is where slot machines are bored
so games come from here they go all over the world are
our folks may come we ship a mountain
in your viewers claim at the casinos all right sir
so this manufacturing facility right now behind us state these are work areas
where the
to normally this is a what and an eight hour shift
but workers come in here but the machine together correct eight hours a day
people are in here bill game so we have the capacity due to do
150 to 200 games day are no that's just the
the full cabinet so if you do the math that's what 25,000
brand new slot cabinets coming are this facility annually
right now there was a a merger added you guys to cover shuffle master
so so now those shuffle master like the a
shut shuffling machines on blackjack tables in
all that is made here ya so about 18 months ago Bali purchase shuffle
master's a lot of people in the industry know in
in so we've %uh consolidated worked well shuffle master was always based here in
Las Vegas
are have a beautiful office about three miles from where we're standing
I'll be a lot of their their products are manufactured here you can see behind
you there's an automatic roulette wheel
all over in the corner you'll see shufflers been made so both Bally slot
products
as well as so almost a shuffle master products will come through this room
I will thanks very much like RIT
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