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Diamond Game recently entered the Public Gaming sector of the gaming industry with its launch of Video-ITVM machines in conjunction with the Iowa Lottery. Diamond Game pioneered the use of video and sound to enhance the dispensing of instant tickets, creating a slot machine-like playing experience through a ticket dispenser. In 2004, Diamond Game received a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that its Video-ITVM device (a.k.a. Lucky Tab II) was not a slot machine, Johnson Act device or other gambling device. This ruling paves the way for lotteries nationwide to begin offering to players these Video-ITVMs anywhere regular instant ticket vending machines are in use. This exciting development, which propelled a machine program deployed by the Iowa Lottery, provides an alternative to VLTs.
With the Video-ITVM, the bells, flashing lights and video display, all components that add to the excitement of the game, have no impact on the outcome. The element of chance is contained entirely in the finite deal of instant tickets. In fact, these tickets could be played straight off the roll, without the use of the dispenser. The machine is merely present to enhance the playing experience. The Video-ITVM offers much of the same player experience and appeal offered by VLTs, but with fewer political and legal challenges associated with gaining approval for VLTs.
Please contact us for more information about how your state can benefit from Video-ITVMs.
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