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Trade Group Develops Tool Kit

LAS VEGAS -- The Gaming Standards Association, an international trade group consisting of major slot machine makers, has developed a "tool kit" that will help the industry develop standardized technology more quickly.

The tool kit will enable manufacturers to implement the back-office systems that communicate between machines and casino software systems before the games are submitted to state regulators for testing, trade group officials said.

"This is a groundbreaking achievement both in the course of the GSA and in the history of gaming," GSA Board Chairman Gregg Solomon, a Mandalay Resort Group executive, said. "With manufacturers using the tool kit, operators will have a much higher degree of confidence that the game and the system will communicate properly and will react predictably across a broad spectrum of real-world circumstances from the moment of installation."

Previous to the Gaming Standards Association, gaming manufacturers were developing games based on different back-office systems that could not communicate with one another.

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