Casino Journal Names 'Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Products' for 1999
PR Newswire - September 25, 1998 08:45
Top Award to be Decided at the American Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Summit, January 12 & 13, Bellagio, Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- A panel of five expert judges have chosen Casino Journal's Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Products for 1999. These 20 products will be evaluated and judged by attendees of the American Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Summit, to be held January 12 & 13, 1999, at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The top vote-getter at the Summit will receive the Best of Show Award and be named the "Most Innovative Gaming Product 1999" at the keynote dinner at the American Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Summit.
A description of Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Products for 1999 will be published in the January edition of Casino Journal, the gaming industry's leading trade magazine. Those 20 products were chosen from dozens of nominations submitted following a call for entries.
The winners are:
COMPANY PRODUCT
Acres Gaming Super Reels
Action Gaming Inc. Triple Play Poker
Anchor Gaming Casino Bowling
AC Coin & Slot Empire Slots
AVVA Light Corp. Edge-Lit Acrylic Signage
Bally Gaming Let's Make A Deal Slot Machine
Bally Gaming Cash Cage
Casinotek ChipTrak
InfoGenesis Revelation
International Game Technology Elvis Slot Machine
Long Associates Press Your Luck
Mikohn Gaming Corp. Casino Link
New Horizon Kids Quest
Shuffle Master Gaming Video Mah Jong
Silicon Gaming Buccaneer Gold
Silicon Gaming Arabian Riches
Sigma Games Where's Henry? Slot Machine
Sigma Games Sneak-a-Peek Poker
VLC Coin-Free
WMS Gaming Monopoly
The expert judges for the Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Products '99 are: Larry Clark, Senior Vice President, Casino Operations, Trump Taj Mahal; Steve Norton, former President, Argosy Gaming Corp.; Steven Rosen, Senior Vice President, Operations, Grand Casino Corp.; Michael Tomasello, Vice President of Slot Operations, Caesars Palace; and James Wortman, Director of the Office of Gaming Education and Research, Conrad Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management, the University of Houston.
The American Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Summit is the industries' most prestigious conference produced by Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Casino Journal Publishing Group, and the Lionel Sawyer & Collins law firm of Nevada. Keynote speakers at the Summit this year include Steven Wynn, Chairman, Mirage Resorts, and Kay Coles James, Chairwoman, National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
In addition to Casino Journal, Casino Journal Publishing Group publishes Casino Player, the largest circulation consumer magazine for the casino industry; the Atlantic City Insider, a monthly consumer-advocate newsletter for gamblers in Atlantic City; Casino Ops, a quarterly technical journal on casino operations; National Gaming Summary, a weekly gaming industry newsletter; Nevada Hospitality, the official publication of the Nevada Hotel/Motel Association; and the Gaming Industry Weekly Report, the Gaming Industry Daily Report and the Daily Lodging Report -- three financial newsletters for investors and industry executives. In December, the company will debut Strictly Slots, a consumer magazine for slot machine and video poker enthusiasts.
In addition to the American Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Summit, Casino Journal Publishing Group also produces several trade shows including the Southern Gaming Summit, in partnership with the Mississippi Casino Operators Association; UNLV's Casino Ops; the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce Business Expo; and Casino Player Gaming Festivals, which are conventions for recreational gamblers.
Casino Journal Publishing Group is a publicly traded company trading under the CJPG symbol on the OTC Bulletin Board.
For more information on the American Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Summit, Casino Journal's Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Products or the Summit's Best of Show Award, call Roger Gros at 609-484-8866.
SOURCE Casino Journal Publishing Group
/CONTACT: Roger Gros of Casino Journal Publishing Group, 609-484-8866/
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