Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | January 2012 28 Step up—Wild Sapphires™ Log onto www.asgam. com for the latest industry intelligence and a subscription to our digital edition—all absolutely free A Sure Bet Macau’s six casino operators will cooperate any time in the foreseeable future to offer a joint wide area jackpot. There is scope, however, for any of the other operators to link up two or more of their own properties to offer life-changing jackpots in response to Sands China’s MegaBucks initiative. As for competition to the MegaBucks product, Aristocrat has a market-tested wide-area jackpot game called Millioni$er, which is also run on a participation basis across Nevada. Featured games One of the featured MegaBucks base games at Venetian Macao is Wild Sapphires™, with the charismatic virtual character Bill Cash guiding players through the game’s features, which include the ability to play three games at once, 13 progressive awards and a top jackpot prize starting at HK$50 million. And the unique Step Up feature allows players to move game multipliers from games one and two up to the main MegaGame. As an added encouragement to players, the top half of the machine features pictures of real-life previous MegaBucks jackpot winners. The other new games are Reel Gold™, Triple Ruby Riches™, and Emerald Sevens™, all of which also feature a minimum HK$50 million top jackpot. All the new slot machines come in both video screen and three-reel models. Maximum bets for all four new games are set at HK$30 per spin. A total of 140 newMegaBucks machines are currently operating a linked progressive jackpot across The Venetian Macao, Sands Macao and The Plaza Macao casinos. Feature