1973 |
Develops algorithmic solution that permits production of world’s first secure Instant Lottery® game. |
1974 |
Prints world’s first secure Instant Lottery® game (25 million tickets for Massachusetts Lottery). |
1975 |
Develops first back-office system for Instant Lottery® game accounting and validation (Illinois, Michigan and Maryland lotteries). |
Introduces retailer validation codes, a security method allowing retailers to confirm low-tier winning tickets and correct prize amount, safeguarding them against fraudulent attempts to cash non-winning tickets. |
1976 |
Pioneers collector cards in connection with the Instant Lottery® game. |
Provides New York Lottery with its first Instant Lottery® game (125 million tickets). Quantity hastened search for technology to replace sheet-fed printing. |
1977 |
Implements first computer-controlled ink-jet imagers for printing variable data in the play area; innovation would soon render obsolete the sheet-fed method of printing Instant Lottery® tickets. |
Pioneers marketing concept of keeping Instant Lottery® games on sale at all times; previously, a game was allowed to sell out before replaced with a new one. |
1978 |
Introduces label games, in which self-adhesive labels are applied to various products in creative ways. |
Prints industry’s first ink-jet imaged tickets (United Kingdom, Littlewoods). |
1979 |
Pioneers concept of offering players multiple playstyles on a single ticket (Ladbrokes – United Kingdom). |
1980 |
Introduces doubling and add-up features on instant games (Michigan). |
1981 |
Introduces zip-code-based analysis as a lottery market research tool. |
Start-up supplier to Arizona Lottery. |
Develops software to meet customer demand for more system functionality; initial implementation in Arizona paves way for telemarketing (Tel-Sell) and Guaranteed Low-End Prize Structure (GLEPS) accounting. |
1982 |
Introduces computerized weekly analysis of sales trends as another market research tool for lotteries. |
Introduces off-line dual pass printing, significantly enhancing instant game security once tickets are distributed to retailers. |
Start-up supplier to DC Lottery. |
Start-up supplier to Washington State Lottery; implements industry’s first automated Tel-Sell marketing system. |
Introduces retailer validation codes on instant tickets to further enhance security of the product. |
1983 |
Introduces lottery industry to Values and Lifestyles (VALS) psychographic consumer research. |
Introduces Bonus Play, a direct mail coupon promotion based on market analysis. |
Introduces enhanced computerized accounting system for instant tickets. |
Start-up supplier to Colorado Lottery; introduces instant game progressive jackpot prize wheel. |
1984 |
Introduces video instant games in Illinois. |
Introduces Instant Lottery System (ILS), the industry’s first integrated software package for accounting, distribution, inventory control, marketing and validation. |
1985 |
Pioneers Cooperative Services Program (CSP) concept in New York, a shared-risk concept to streamline a lottery’s operations, reduce its costs and maximize its revenue. |
Debuts the first multi-state online lottery game in the U.S. (for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont). |
Introduces LION, the industry’s first online retail terminal with a built-in, animated, full-color consumer display for advertising to the consumer at the point of sale. |
Start-up supplier to Oregon, Iowa and California lotteries. |
1986 |
Introduces WIN Code (Winner Integrity Number) system to detect delaminated tickets. |
Start-up supplier to West Virginia and Missouri lotteries. |
1987 |
Start-up supplier to Montana Lottery. |
Develops and introduces technology enabling ink-jet imaging of bar codes on instant tickets (Vermont). |
SG system helps launch LottoAmerica, predecessor to Powerball® game. |
1988 |
Start-up supplier to Florida, Virginia & Wisconsin lotteries. |
Introduces synchronized ink-jet imaging technology enabling lotteries to print play data and validation information on the front of the ticket and move the bar code to the back (Maine). |
Integrates first-ever bar code system into ILS II (system) for instant ticket validation and full cross-redemption with GLEPS accounting (players no longer required to cash winning tickets at same retailer where purchased). |
1989 |
Debuts industry’s first open online lottery system for Austrian lottery. |
1990 |
Start-up supplier to national lotteries in Mexico and Taipei, Taiwan. |
1992 |
Introduces industry’s first bar-coded pull-tab tickets (Kentucky). |
Pioneers technology (Terra 2000®) allowing instant tickets to be printed securely on recyclable, plain paper instead of non-environmentally friendly foil-laminated card stock. |
1993 |
Start-up supplier to Georgia, Nebraska and Greece lotteries. |
1994 |
Start up supplier to the Netherlands and Virgin Islands lotteries. |
1995 |
First U.S. industry supplier to receive ISO 9002 certification of its quality management system. |
Introduces automatic, one-step, keyless validation of instant tickets (SciScan Technology) that eliminated retailers’ required a three-step manual process. |
Start-up supplier to the United Kingdom National Lottery. |
1996 |
Produces first full-function bar-coded pull-tab tickets (Kentucky) enabling them to be validated the same way as instant tickets. |
Introduces dual-color imaging on instant tickets (Delaware). |
First supplier to bring open system solution (AEGIS®) to U.S. lottery industry; previously, proprietary closed systems dominated online lottery operations. |
1997 |
Introduces first secure instant probability games (Winner’s Choice™). |
Start-up supplier to National Lottery in Zimbabwe. |
1999 |
First launch of the patented multiplier game feature on Keno in Maryland. |
2000 |
Industry’s first simultaneous, dual online system conversion (Maine & Iowa). |
2001 |
Lotteries in New Jersey, Kentucky and Indiana are the first to offer players an opportunity to use the Internet to enter second chance drawings using systems developed by MDI Entertainment. |
2002 |
Fulline™ start-up supplier (instant and online) to South Carolina Lottery; introduces industry’s first Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) telecommunications system to securely transmit data between central system and online terminals for greater communications cost efficiencies and flexibility. |
Introduces Colormark™ marking system so players can more easily identify winning patterns on Extended Play games (e.g., Bingo, Crossword). |
2003 |
Introduces Remote Color Signoff™ system allowing lotteries to sign-off on press proofs from their own offices without travel. |
Introduces Touch-Tabs™ (electronic pull-tab games) and Touch-Tabs™ kiosk (self-service electronic pull-tab dispensing device). |
Introduces PlayCentral®, the world’s first interactive, full-function, self-service lottery kiosk as a total solution for the retail automation of the sale and accounting of all lottery products, including up to 28 instant games and multiple online games. |
Introduces Convenience Central™, a new vending solution that brings lottery vending right to the cash register at large, multi-lane stores. |
First supplier to bring real-time online transaction processing to Latin America; first to deploy a fully cellular wireless lottery communications network in Peru. |
Introduces LC3™ as the first electronic game cards (testing in Iowa). |
First launch of Multi-hand Easy Win (MHEW) patented game style in Pennsylvania known as Match 6 Lotto. |
2004 |
Start-up supplier to the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation. |
First launch of Instant Online play style in Maryland (known as InWin) and Montana (QwikPix). |
2005 |
Start-up instant warehousing distribution and systems supplier for the Oklahoma Education Lottery Corporation. |
Converted Ohio Lottery to CSP warehousing and distribution operation |
First successful $20 online raffle sold out in Pennsylvania after only 2 weeks on sale! |
Ohio Lottery was the first in the industry to implement the Internet Second Chance EASY ENTRY validation process developed by MDI, Scientific Games and the Lottery. |
2006 |
Acquired Global Draw a leading supplier of fixed odds betting terminals and systems, and interactive sports betting terminals and systems. |
Acquired EssNet AB an international on-line lottery technology provider. |
Acquired TeleCom Game Factory a leader and innovator in lottery gaming and drawing systems. |
Acquisition of Games Media, a UK based company developing, publishing and selling "Amusement With Prizes" (AWP) machines, "Skill With Prizes" (SWP) machines and related content for the UK public house market. |
First U.S. launch of a horse race-themed monitor game in Maryland. |
2007 |
Conversion of Pennsylvania Lottery warehouse operations to new SciTRAK sorter system. |
Inauguration of newest flexo press (Press 6) in Alpharetta, GA. |
Acquisition of Oberthur Gaming Technologies. |
First lottery vendor to achieve NASPL certifications for software development and quality best practices. |
Formation of joint venture with leading Chinese technology company, Inspur, to launch instant tickets in the Shandong Province of China. |
Acquisition of a 50% interest in the ownership of Guard Libang, a leading provider of instant lottery ticket cooperative services in China. |
First monitor game launch involving patented Hold’em play style in Maryland. |
Scientific Games becomes the first lottery vendor in the industry to be certified by the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) for software development and quality best practices. |
MDI Entertainment creates the first multi-jurisdictional instant game promotion in conjunction with the popular TV show "Deal Or No Deal." |
