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TTTony



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:27 pm    Post subject: How many were made? Reply with quote

Does anyone know how many Odyssey's were manufactured in all?
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ody-man



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:18 pm    Post subject: Re: How many were made? Reply with quote

TTTony wrote:
Does anyone know how many Odyssey's were manufactured in all?


I was told by a tech. who worked on the Odyssey that between 30,000 to 40,000 were made. They sold them to the casino's for about $20,000 each and up. Not too many considering the machines are not made any more.
I've been checking the auction sites and have not seen a Odyssey machine for sale for a few months now. People that have them don't want to part with them now.
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RenoKeith



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:01 pm    Post subject: My research on production numbers of ODYSSEY Reply with quote

I did some research on Silicon Gaming, and the data below is a summary. FWIW: If SGI had sold the 30,000-40,000 games mentioned in another post; we'd all be playing the 3rd generation of Odyssey RIGHT NOW. Judging by the financials, I'd guestimate a total of 6-7,000 games sold (I'm assuming there was little inventory when IGT bought them, and that IGT never sold Odysseys - both may be significant errors on my part... If IGT bought 90% of those games off of casino floors, then there are somewhere around 500-700 games still out there = a VERY rare collectible IMHO.

Keep in mind, if a casino kept their Odysseys when IGT was buying them back, it was because someone (Slot Manager?) liked the game, and was willing to put up with lack of TITO, and the old bills/BV issues. Games such as those would play until parts were no longer available. Such slot managers might be inclined to cannibalize a game to keep others going; see where this is going? When such a casino gave up on their remaining games, they probably would be in bad shape - DOA, or lacking working parts - so those games would be sold for very little to distributors - who also don't have many parts. Of these 500-700 games that never saw IGT's sledgehammers, I'm guessing that maybe fewer than 200 games are actually still working!

FINAL THOUGHT: If you have a game that simply won't work, and you are giving up on it - PART IT OUT. A dead machine may be only worth $50 (who's gonna ship a $50 dead machine cross-country, which costs $300-500?), and so it is unlikely that you could sell it on eBay; but you could sell the monitor, the BV, the doors, the topper, the belly glass, the computer cards, the motherboard, the hard drive, the wiring loom - the parts add up to much more value than a dead machine... This is a much better choice than tossing the game into the landfill; and will help (potentially) many other games live a longer life!
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Silicon Gaming Revenue per Quarter

07/27/1993 Company incorporated
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NO APPROVALS, NO SALES, NO REVENUE IN 1995
NET LOSS OF $3,974,000 FOR 1995
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NO APPROVALS, NO SALES, NO REVENUE IN 1996
NET LOSS OF $13,634,000 FOR 1996
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March 1997 – Nevada Gaming Commission approval, sales can commence.
December 1997 filing lists 1,501 machines installed to-date
REVENUE FOR 1997: $9,550,000 ($7,636,000 hardware sales, $567,000 software licenses, $1,347,000 participation)
NET LOSS OF $22,986,000 FOR 1997
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$22,281,000 (Sales revenue for total 1998 fiscal year)
December 1998 – “Big Win” WAP introduced, 160 units installed in Nevada, but 142 returned when company decides to modify initial software….
December 1998 filing lists 3,609 Odyssey (multi) and Quest (single game) units sold to-date.
01/01/1999-03/31/1999 5,700,000 Quarterly revenue
04/01/1999-06/30/1999 n/a
07/01/1999-09/30/1999 n/a
10/01/1999-12/31/1999 3,500,000 Quarterly revenue
01/01/2000-03/31/2000 3,100,000 Quarterly revenue
10/25/2000 Silicon Gaming in talks with IGT
12/19/2000 Agreement to merge announced
03/27/2001 IGT announces merger with Silicon Gaming complete
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