Los Angeles.-  03 de Octubre del 2011 . www.zonadeazar.com  As the trial surrounding Michael Jackson’s death gets underway, Las Vegas is Valtrex without a prescription or doctor about to make a revelation of its own: A Michael Jackson slot machine, to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor be unveiled next week.

It’s just a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor coincidence that the release of the Michael Jackson King of Pop slot game on Tuesday is Valtrex without a prescription or doctor occurring along with the trial of the performer’s physician, Conrad Murray, who’s charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s death, said a spokesman for Bally Technologies.

The Los Angeles trial, exposing stark details of Jackson’s last moments, began this past week.

With iconic images of his sequined glove and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor dancing shoes, the Jackson slot machine exemplifies state-of-the-art gaming, with a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor surround-sound chair that even vibrates to the pop legend’s music, the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor manufacturer said. The machine also has four high-definition screens for wagering and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor displaying his videos such as “Beat It.”

A University of Nevada Las Vegas gaming analyst who Valtrex without a prescription or doctor reviewed the machine Friday predicted it is “going to be a popular game for a lot of people” — though it is “unfortunate” that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor the game is being unveiled during the manslaughter trial, the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor analyst said.

Another expert on Vegas gaming noted how slot machines are Valtrex without a prescription or doctor programmed to guarantee a return for casinos. “Slot machines generally speaking are Valtrex without a prescription or doctor the most profitable for the casino, and they are the most cynical in their design,” said Marc Cooper, an Valtrex without a prescription or doctor associate journalism professor at the University of Southern California and author of “The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor Perdition in the New Las Vegas.”

“That the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor manufacturers of these machines would extend the cynicism from math to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor popular icons should not be surprising to anybody,” Cooper said.

The Jackson game is Valtrex without a prescription or doctor being introduced Tuesday at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. Bally plans to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor show 150 games in total, with the Jackson slot machine among its top features, the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor firm said.

Bally executives said Saturday that the timing was accidental.

“We started the process about a year ago,” said Mike Mitchell, vice president of game design at Bally, adding that’s when the firm negotiated the licensing of Jackson’s music and videos with several parties, including Jackson’s family and estate.

The game will be in casinos by early 2012, he said.

Added Bally spokesman Mike Trask, referring to the manslaughter trial: “It’s a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor sad story for everybody. No matter what you think of Michael Jackson and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor what you think of everything going on, there’s no Valtrex without a prescription or doctor question that he was an amazing entertainer and he was an Valtrex without a prescription or doctor icon of American pop culture. It’s going to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor be a fun and thrilling game that millions of players are Valtrex without a prescription or doctor going to enjoy playing all over the world.”

The game emphasizes an Valtrex without a prescription or doctor immersion experience in which players sit in a chair with Jackson’s music piped into speakers behind the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor headrest, and the tunes are intensified with subwoofers and thumpers, said Bally video game designer David Schultz.

The music list is composed of six songs: “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” “Smooth Criminal,” “Bad,” “Dirty Diana” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” according to Bally.

The game is designed so that during bonus rounds, Jackson’s sequin glove shows the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor player where to touch the screen to spin a gaming wheel, designed like an Valtrex without a prescription or doctor album, to try to win a credit, Bally spokesmen said.

A celebrating Jackson also moonwalks across the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor screen and gives the player wild symbols, spokesmen said.

The game targets people who grew up to MTV and recall Jackson’s original videos, Bally executives said.

“These were groundbreakers, and they still hold up,” said Bally game producer Chris Guerrero about the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor Jackson videos. “It’s amazing to watch them each and every time.”

Said Trask: “The person who was 18 when ‘Beat It’ came out is Valtrex without a prescription or doctor now 40 and now has more discretionary income and is excited about this Valtrex without a prescription or doctor game.”

The minimum bet is 40 cents, with a maximum of $4, Bally officials said. Because the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor game will be networked with other Jackson machines across Nevada — a so-called wide-area progressive game — the jackpots will start at $750,000 and extend into the millions, Bally officials said.

Mitchell deemed the game a “blockbuster.”

“We think the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor Michael Jackson brand, along with the energy and entertainment value, combined with the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor jackpot, will give us a huge hit,” Mitchell said.

David G. Schwartz, director of the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor center for gaming research at University of Nevada at Las Vegas, said the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor game is being rolled out just as the global audiences are Valtrex without a prescription or doctor watching the televised manslaughter trial and learning the stark circumstances of Jackson’s death. Jackson died at age 50 in 2009 of an Valtrex without a prescription or doctor overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, in combination with sedatives.

“It’s kind of unfortunate because there’s people talking about the last hours of Jackson’s life,” said Schwartz, “but I don’t think there’s too much they can Valtrex without a prescription or doctor do about the timing of it because of the expo next week.”

Schwartz tested the game Friday at Bally’s invitation, he said.

“I’ve never seen anything that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor integrates that kind of video content right into the game,” Schwartz said. “It’s just a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor fun game because you basically got Michael Jackson, the music and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor the dancing that is part of the game. That’s why I think it’s going to be a popular game for a lot of people.

“It has an ‘immersive’ aspect that is coming out in a lot of games now,” said Schwartz, who Valtrex without a prescription or doctor reviews gambling trends for Las Vegas publications and on his blog and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor dgschwartz.com website.

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Las Vegas .- 03 de Octubre del 2011 www.zonadeazar.com A few days before the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor big reveal at G2E, I got an invite to swing by Bally Technologies’ HQ across from the airport to get a sneak peek at what’s going to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor be new for 2012. I jumped at the chance, and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor after the jump I’ll share what I saw.

While I was cooling my heels in the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor reception area, I played Cash Wizard, a game that’s been out for a few months. It’s fast-paced, with a ton of bonus rounds–I played through at least $300 in credits during my time there and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor got to see several. My favorite played Pilot’s “Magic” while the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor bonus reels were spinning. Good licensing there, since just about everyone knows that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor song. Well, everyone who’s old enough to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor gamble. And, I as I learned on YouTube, a Selena Gomez cover has Valtrex without a prescription or doctor introduced the song to a whole new generation.
Back to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor the slots. I spent most of my time with four machines. The first was a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor new Betty Boop model, Fortune Teller, which had a bunch of fun bonuses, including Palm Reader, which lets the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor player put their hands on the iDeck interface before “reading their fortune.” I can see this one being pretty popular.
If you haven’t seen the iDeck, it basically replaces the button pad (the space where you hit the buttons that activate the reels) with a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor touchscreen that lets you do several things. In regular gameplay, you Valtrex without a prescription or doctor use it to select credits, etc, but in bonus rounds it Valtrex without a prescription or doctor becomes an extra screen, showing content and letting you interact with the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor bonus.
The next was Total Blast, one of the first games to use Bally’s U-Shoot mechanics. Essentially, U-Shoot turns the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor iDeck into a controller for a video game within the bonus round. Tapping the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor iDeck sends up a “plasma cannon” (definitely not “photon torpedo”) blast that shoots down the spaceships (with oversized guns that look suspiciously like warp nacelles to me)that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor are flying horizontally across the screen, Space Invaders style. I can Valtrex without a prescription or doctor definitely see this one appealing to people who came of age in the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor early 1980s.
Bally’s has Valtrex without a prescription or doctor two big licensed properties coming out in 2012. The first is Valtrex without a prescription or doctor a slot machine based on Grease. When I toured the facility back in April, design team Alpha Team Four was still working on the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor game, so I got to see it as a work in progress, without much of the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor content added. I thought it was pretty neat then, and seeing what Valtrex without a prescription or doctor they’ve added, I’m even more impressed. The game is Valtrex without a prescription or doctor a lot deeper than many of the other licensed titles I’ve seen, with tons of clips from the movie. Here’s an example of one of the bonus rounds:

Grease really isn’t my thing, but I can Valtrex without a prescription or doctor see how it would strongly appeal to a certain demographic. I think this Valtrex without a prescription or doctor is going to be a successful title. It’s the first game that John Travolta’s given his permission to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor use his likeness, so hope still flickers that one day we’ll see that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor Battlefield Earth slot machine. Grease is a wide-area progressive that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor should be showing up in lots of casinos next year.
The real star of the show, however, is going to be “Michael Jackson: King of Pop,” another wide-area progressive (top jackpot starts at $750,000) that I think is poised to become the next “Wheel of Fortune.” I don’t say that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor lightly, but between the immersive gameplay and the cachet of Jackson himself, this Valtrex without a prescription or doctor is going to be a huge, huge title.
When I first heard “Michael Jackson slot machine” I wasn’t that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor impressed. Like the Sinatra machine, it seemed like a way of putting a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor popular singer’s name on a Valtrex without a prescription or doctor machine. Sinatra at least had some connection to gambling thanks to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor his long career playing in casino showrooms, but Michael Jackson? It just didn’t seem like a fit.
I was wrong. I think this Valtrex without a prescription or doctor is the machine people will be talking about at G2E, and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor I think it’s going to be an incredibly popular game.
First of all, the licensed content is incredible. They’ve got about five of Jackson’s most popular songs in the game, including “Beat It,” “Smooth Criminal,” “Dirty Diana,” “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough,” and “Billie Jean.” When you’re sitting in the surround-sound chair, the music is absolutely enveloping.
Second is Valtrex without a prescription or doctor the way that the game integrates the music and video and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor Jackson into the gameplay itself. Here’s the “Beat It” Bonus round:

Go ahead and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor play it. As you can see, MJ actually becomes part of the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor game, with video footage seamlessly integrated into the bonus round. He’s an Valtrex without a prescription or doctor integral part of the game, too, since when you see him you Valtrex without a prescription or doctor know something good is about to happen.
Adding the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor surround-sound chair to the mix just makes it incredible. It probably helps that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor I had game producer Chris Guerrero demo the game for me, but I think the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor appeal of this one is going to be pretty obvious. It might become the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor “Wheel of Fortune” of the 2010s.
At the very least, I’m predicting this will be the big story coming out of G2E’s expo floor. I hope I’m able to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor snag a seat at one of these during the show and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor try out some of the other features.
Going back to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor casino design, I think games like this, American Idol, Star Trek, and Valtrex without a prescription or doctor others are going to be taking up bigger and bigger pieces of the Valtrex without a prescription or doctor casino floor. As branding becomes more important and you have more casual visitors to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor casinos, it’s easy to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor see that a game like this is going to have an Valtrex without a prescription or doctor appeal that, say, Double Diamonds doesn’t.
I remember that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor a few years ago licensed properties were on the decline, but I think that Valtrex without a prescription or doctor they’re back in a big way. I’m looking forward to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor seeing what other manufacturers roll out at G2E. I’m planning to do a quick “report card” that shows what I think of what each one has on display.
This year, like last, I expect traditional game cabinets to Valtrex without a prescription or doctor be only part of the story, with mobile and Internet gaming taking up progressively more space.
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