AMI Entertainment Announces New Prize Farm™ Tournaments
Industry’s First Progressive Jackpot and Instant Tournament with Cash Payout
BRISTOL, PA, March 1, 2011 – AMI Entertainment Network, makers of Prize Farm, the skill-based coin-op game that awards instant cash prizes, announces the industry’s first Progressive Jackpot Tournament and Instant Tournament system. Prize Farm features 13 games spread over 4 skill categories including quiz, word, card, and action, has been approved in over 25 states, and now includes player-requested tournaments.
Prize Farm now offers monthly Megatouch™ game tournaments with an industry-first Progressive Jackpot, allowing players to compete NATIONWIDE for a prize pool based on income from premium-priced tournament games. Tournament games are chosen from the most-played Megatouch tournaments. Players pay $1 to play a tournament game from which 25% goes into the jackpot. At the end of the tournament, the players with the top 5 scores nationwide are cash prize winners. The prize pool constantly updates so players can see the cash winnings increase. The Prize Farm machine calls in every time a player participates in a tournament, keeping the player rankings and jackpot updated in real-time.
Prize Farm also offers a location-based, Instant Tournament system featuring the exciting new hidden object game, House of Tiny Treasures. This system affords each Prize Farm machine in a specific location the opportunity to participate. The highest score, per machine, at the end of the tournament wins the prize and a new tournament automatically begins. Each player begins their House of Tiny Treasures game in the hallway of a house and, depending on the skill of the player, moves through different rooms over three minutes, finding requested objects. The price for play in an Instant Tournament is $1.00 and prizes vary between $10, $25, and $50. The player’s account is password protected and after the winner is announced, they have 3 months to collect their cash prize directly from the machine on which they played.
Prize Farm players must master a variety of game skills in order to win cash prizes. The initial suite of games includes All Clued Up, Blockbuster, Cops ‘n’ Robbers, I-Spy, Magnificent 7, Paired-Up, Pieces of Eight, Pints Make Prizes, Premier League Darts™, Spot the Difference, Trail Blazer, and You Have Won $20. Players can win up to $25 on all non-tournament games.
As part of the Prize Farm package, operators are provided with free software upgrades, online promotional screenshots, printed marketing materials, and promotional screens that can be individually customized. Prize Farm hardware has a 22” LCD touchscreen, and ships with a reliable SATA drive.
“The skill with prize (SWP) genre is well proven over two decades in the U.K. where our subsidiary company Games Warehouse is the strong market leader with around 60% market share and over 10,000 installed terminals,” said Mike Maas, AMI Entertainment’s CEO. “With our unrivalled heritage of providing play-for-fun games of skill to locations throughout North America and beyond, AMI is ideally placed to introduce this exciting genre to a hungry market as the various state legislatures move towards the relaxation of constraints governing instant cash prizes for coin-op games of skill. The public launch of Prize Farm at IAAPA was greeted with great excitement throughout the U.S. operating community and we are confident that this product could be the ‘next big thing’ stateside.”
States where Prize Farm currently ships include: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. For more information on Prize Farm, please visit http://www.amientertainment.com/games/prizefarm/
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