WMS Industries, Inc is an American electronic gaming and amusement manufacturer in Enterprise, Nevada.
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14 Facts About WMS Industries
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However, the company that became WMS Industries was formally founded in 1974 as Williams Electronics, Inc.
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WMS Industries is a shortening of Williams, which it selected for its NYSE ticker symbol.
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In 2013, WMS Industries became a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientific Games.
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WMS Industries entered the reel-spinning slot machine market in 1994, and its products have helped to move the industry trend away from generic mechanical slot machines and toward games that incorporate familiar intellectual properties.
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WMS Industries followed this with a number of similar successful games like Jackpot Party, Boom and Filthy Rich.
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Meanwhile, by 1996, WMS Industries had transferred all of the copyrights and trademarks in its video game library to Midway, including Defender, Stargate, Robotron: 2084, Joust and Smash TV, as it took Midway public and finally spun it off in 1998.
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WMS Industries manufactured the G+ series of video reel slots, the Community Gaming family of interconnected slots, as well as mechanical reels, poker games, and video lottery terminals.
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WMS Industries began to offer online gaming in 2010 to persons over 18 years old in the UK and in 2011 in the US at www.
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In 2012, WMS Industries partnered with Large Animal Games to incorporate several of WMS Industries's slot machine games into a cruise ship-themed Facebook game application titled "Lucky Cruise".
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In 2012, WMS Industries acquired Sweden-based Jadestone Group AB and then Iowa-based Phantom EFX, which, later that year, became part of a new subsidiary, Williams Interactive.
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WMS Industries merged with Scientific Games in October 2013, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientific Games.
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In 2016, WMS Industries was reorganized and fully merged into Scientific Games.
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Today, WMS Industries is retained as a brand of Scientific Games, along with SG, Bally and Shuffle Master.
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