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Scientific Games to Supply West Virginia Lottery

NEW YORK – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Scientific Games [Nasdaq: SGMS] will supply a new AEGIS-Video(TM) Central Monitoring System (CMS) to the West Virginia Lottery under terms of a contract announced today. The CMS will run the lottery's network of 20,000 video lottery terminals (VLTs) at four race tracks and 1,600 additional retail locations throughout the state. The contract runs for six years with four one-year option years. The contract is valued at $6.2 million over its initial term.

The new CMS will include both new hardware and software to run equipment from ten different licensed gaming manufacturers in the West Virginia network, and while it will upgrade to the Slot Accounting System (SAS) 6.01 communication protocol, it will be compatible with legacy equipment using older SAS and IGT's ICIS protocols. The new system will allow the lottery to rapidly update its video lottery gaming capabilities across its network, including terminals located at racetracks and in retail outlets.

"West Virginia is one of the pioneers of video lotteries, so we're pleased that AEGIS-Video will be keeping them on the leading edge of video lottery operations in the United States," said Brennen Lawrence, Vice President and General Manager of Video Gaming Systems of Scientific Games. "The Lottery has played a critical role in supporting the state's racing industry -- along with education, seniors and parks -- and keeping the games running smoothly will ensure that it will be able to do even more in the future."

"Scientific Games has been an innovator in the video lottery industry for years and the AEGIS System offers the West Virginia Lottery the necessary tools to continue our success," said Lottery Director John Musgrave. "With the AEGIS-Video central monitoring system, we'll be able to bring our players all the newest games and gaming experiences without having to replace all our incumbent terminals at once, and that's a perfect way to mark the 20th anniversary of the West Virginia Lottery."

Scientific Games provides video gaming central systems and or services to the Maine Gaming Control Board, New Mexico Gambling Control Board, South Dakota Lottery, Soceite Des Lottery Video Du Quebec (Canada), Islandsspil (Iceland), Manitoba (Canada) and are in the process of implementing AEGIS-Video Systems to the Delaware Lottery, and Independent Gaming Corp (Australia).

Now celebrating "20 Years of Winning for West Virginians," the West Virginia Lottery supports state programs for education, senior citizens, parks and tourism. Lottery revenues have helped finance more than 40,000 computers for the public schools, handicapped access in the state parks, and transportation and home health care for seniors. After transferring profits to the state's general fund in its early years of operation, the lottery has been dedicated to specified beneficiaries since 1989.

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