Asia Pioneer Entertainment Holdings Ltd. (the APE group), the distributor for supplier Konami Australia Pty. Ltd. in Macau, announced that Fortune Cup, Konami’s multi-station horse race game, has debuted in two “prominent” Macau casinos.
The announcement did not specify the number of units of Fortune Cup that are being installed in the city’s casinos, nor the names of the venues in which the games are being installed.
The arcade-style game, a miniature horse track combining electro-mechanical and digital technologies, features 12 betting terminals around a 274-cm.-wide mechanical track with eight horses that travel freely and independently across the course. The horses’ actions are mirrored by real-time digital animation on connected LCD screens in a sports broadcast format in Cantonese, and players place their bets through touch-screen stations with race stats, horse odds, and comprehensive bet options for win, place, and quinella.
“Macau is a market we have been eager to expand into,” said Hideo Goto, international sales manager for Konami Australia. “Konami Australia is very excited to partner with our Macau distributor APE to install the Fortune Cup machines in these two casinos. I look forward to rolling out Fortune Cup to more casinos in future.”
Herman Ng, chief executive and executive director of the APE group, said predicted that Fortune Cup will be “one of the most popular” casino games in Macau in 2019.
“Fortune Cup is an electronic table game that is the only one of its kind in Macau,” Ng said. “We are getting a lot of positive feedback from operators on this arcade-style horse racing game.”
Konami Australia launched Fortune Cup in Cambodia, Vietnam and Macau, and plans to expand Fortune Cup installation throughout Asia including Singapore and Philippines.
