Hollywood Slots at Bangor Opens Bally System

LAS VEGAS – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Bally Gaming and Systems, a business unit of Alliance Gaming Corp. (NYSE: AGI), announced today that Hollywood Slots at Bangor, a Penn National Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENN) facility, opened to the public on Friday, Nov. 4 featuring a complete slot accounting and casino management solution from Bally Casino Management Systems (CMS) and Bally Slot Management Systems (SMS) and a slot floor with 30 percent Bally machines.

Long lines formed prior to the 10 a.m. opening, and once inside, visitors found a technologically advanced, completely coinless slot floor featuring eTICKET(TM) from Bally Systems. Of Bally's 30 percent share of the machines, nearly half of that total is comprised of M9000 Alpha video slots.

Along with the slot accounting and casino management systems, Penn National plans to introduce Bally Power Promotions(TM) from the Bally Power Bonusing(TM) suite of products.

The opening of Hollywood Slots marks the seventh property owned or managed by Penn National Gaming to feature Bally Systems technology.

"We are pleased to be partners with Penn National as it brings its operational expertise to Maine while continuing to grow nationally," said Tom Reilly, Vice President of Systems Sales for Eastern North America. "We are confident our games will be a hit with players enjoying the new Hollywood Slots facility and that our systems products will meet Penn National's lofty standards for creating a wide variety of property efficiencies."

Recognized as the industry systems leader with more than 345,000 machines and 625 casino, bingo, Class II, central determination and lottery locations worldwide -- including more than 140 locations currently running Bally eTICKET(TM) on more than 140,000 slot machines -- the Bally Systems product line offers slot machine cash monitoring, cashless, accounting, security, maintenance, marketing, promotional and bonusing capabilities, enabling operators to accurately analyze performance and accountability while providing an enhanced level of customer service.