By Simon Jones on Thursday, 15 Jun 2006 Technological advancements in gaming have led to people flooding to online bingo sites, but another development is electronic bingo halls, ATE Online reports.
In an advancement of the conventional style of bingo locations, the Fountain Park Mecca Bingo club in Edinburgh allows players to use some 500 touchscreen terminals, with software provided by ECM and a special service that links up food and drink ordering.
The electronic club opened in March as a way to compete with online bingo sites, which include Foxy Bingo, Bingo Palace and Kiss My Bingo.
"With competition from electronic gaming and consoles, we needed new ways to present the game to capture a larger market," said Mario Vilela of Rank, Mecca's parent company.
"The technology makes bingo an exciting, reaction-based game where customers are entertained," he added. "It can recall preferences and offer customers their preferred games, food or drinks."
And he pointed out the significance of the advancement: "Bingo has not changed from a manual, pen and paper-based game in more than 500 years."
There is a region in Burkina Faso called Bingo and an old province of Japan was also called Bingo.
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