The UK is demonstrating a keen appreciation of the video-based reprogrammable adp Gauselmann Category C and B3 machines offered by Gauselmann’s British subsidiary Blueprint Machines.

The orders written at ICE Totally Gaming as the show closed yesterday delighted the Blueprint team led by managing director Simon Barff. He had concluded a 1,000-machine order for Genie cabinets containing Gauselmann software – some of it supplied by Blueprint Gaming, for Sceptre Leisure. The company had also seen a “substantial order” from Playnation and another for distributor AMG Leisure.

The two orders were certainly for several hundred units, and the AMG order was for B3 games in the slant-top cabinet.

Sceptre’s CEO, Ken Turner, said that his company had been injecting Genie cabinets into its UK estate for over a year and they were “gaining amazing traction.” He added: “The combination of adp Gauselmann cabinets and Blueprint software is very dynamic.”

Playnation’s CEO, Adam Hodges, was following up an initial order placed six months ago.

“The games were so successful that we are ordering a substantial additional quantity. We will put the Blueprint content into our server-based gaming motorway estate where we operate with Moto, Roadchef and Welcome Break. We now have first-hand experience of the success of Blueprint machines in adp Gauselmann cabinets and there is no question that they are the best-performing games on the market.”

AMG’s joint managing director, Mark Sowray, said that the B3 machines were “the best on the market” and that they would be going into stock at AMG – “but won’t be there for long!”