IGT press release

[Brianzz]

I was looking over a press release from IGT for G2E multi-play games and found and interesting snippet...

Joining the lineup is the new M-P Series(R) Phantom Blackjack(TM) game. Linking up to six player stations, the game includes a "phantom" dealer, a configurable multiple-deck shoe and two side bet features. This new game features a simplified approach, in which phantom gloved hands deal to keep the focus on the game. It is a traditional-style blackjack game with operator-configurable choices for number of decks, split and double down options. Also included are two side bets - Hot Streak and Up Card Luck - which add excitement to the game for both player and operator.

Is it just me or does the "phantom" style dealer hands sound suspiciously familiar to another now defunct game system with a GIGANTIC monitor?

[theDotster]

It's not just you. I love those hands on the Odyssey

[StatFreak]

It's not just you. I love those hands on the Odyssey

I was blown away the first time I walked into a casino and saw those ghostly white gloves dealing on that huge monitor in pseudo 3D.   My CRS precludes my telling you where and when that was. 

[brichter]

IGT bought SG back in the day, I guess it was only a matter of time before they started using the IP...

[knagl]

I guess it was only a matter of time before they started using the IP...

They've been using some of it for a while already.  Surely you've seen banks of IGT Fort Knox machines?  Fort Knox was an Odyssey game (same logo and all -- see Robert Winter's site).   

[brichter]

Nope, never seen one.

[StatFreak]

I guess it was only a matter of time before they started using the IP...

They've been using some of it for a while already.  Surely you've seen banks of IGT Fort Knox machines?  Fort Knox was an Odyssey game (same logo and all -- see Robert Winter's site).   

Nope, never seen one.

Wow, you missed out. The trick with those was to look for machines with only one or two numbers left to open the safe, then play it until you got the bonus and look for another. There were usually enough tourists who didn't understand the game to play the "cleared" machines until the numbers filled up.

I made quite a few bucks on those.

[knagl]

The Odyssey version was a banking game (like S&H Green Stamps or Golden Monkey, still found in casinos today).  The IGT version was a linked mystery progressive, where any of the machines in the bank could trigger the bonus, and in the bonus you could win one of five progressives by selecting different safes on the screen to increase a point total.  The more points you got, the bigger the progressive that you'd win.  If you wagered more, you had a better chance of triggering the bonus AND winning bigger progressives.