IGA 2019 marked a “hugely significant forward milestone” for Merkur Gaming Americas, according to officials of the gaming machine supply arm of Germany’s Gauselmann Group. A press release from the company credits the introduction of a new product range that was described by its creator, Sunshine Games, as being “uniquely focused on player engagement.”
“The Merkur Gaming booth at NIGA showed, for the first time anywhere, familiar games that had now been supercharged by the addition of Rapid Thunder,” the release said. “This is an in-built high-prize value jackpot feature that gives players the sense of playing for big prizes.”
Highlighting Merkur Gaming’s successful Avantgarde Trio and Evostar Trio cabinets, the dynamic Rapid Thunder bonus feature was presented as an in-built add-on to the Taco Tuesday, Land of Charms, Immortal Emperor, Immortal Princess, Baozang and Amulet of the Pharaoh game titles.
Also shown prominently at NIGA were the latest, updated versions of the already popular Big Deal Wheel and Striking Fortunes games. Big Deal Wheel now has added stacked symbols as well as jackpots, while Striking Fortunes has its own inbuilt four level jackpot as well as win multipliers on reels 1,3 and 5 plus extra symbol substitutions on reels 2 and 4; these features activated by the flying Golden Dragon and Red Dragon respectively.
