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Title: Awnser to the questions about the missing Fortune One Pokers Post by: Slot Docs on January 09, 2009, 05:31:02 AM Hi Guys,
I have the answer to what happened to all the thousands and thousands of Fortune One Poker machines that used to be in the Las Vegas Area, and the Reno Area.........Well here is the Truth as witnessed by me......In Las Vegs in 1991 or 1992 when Steve Wynn bought the Dunes Hotel to demolish it the company I worked for at that time (Joey LC knows which company) sent me down to Las Vegas to supervise the pickup of the equipment that my company purchased form the Dunes which was about 85% of all the 2500 + games they had on the floor at the time. While taking down serial Numbers etc on all the games we purchased I noticed a distinct lack of Fortune One games on our list........out of several hundred fortune one games that were on hand on the casino floor only about 30 fortune ones were on our list. I thought that this was very Odd, until the following day........The following morning IGT showed up with 3 24 foot flat bed trucks with lift gates and started hauling out fortune one games. Each of those three trucks made several trips all day long........ near the end of the day I was talking to a couple of the IGT guys and I asked them where they were taking the fortune ones............."TO THE CAR CRUSHER" was his reply. I have since come to find out that IGT maintains there own Car Crushers in Reno and Las Vegas just for getting rid of the obsolete games so that they don't take away from there market share as far as selling them overseas etc. Sad but true................. Slot Docs (formerly buddmanTx on this site) |