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 Skymaster
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Yep, Aristocrat is still Australian, with a rather large US presence.
Head Office is on the corner of Lane Cove Road and Epping Road at Macquarie Park.

A mate of mine is a systems programmer there, we're always joking that his day is spent playing the pokies Smile
 
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 Ian Robertson
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There used to be several poker machine manufacturers in Sydney. One of them was called Nutt & Muddle. True!!

http://collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/keemu/pages/nrm/PartyDisplay.php?irn=18399&QueryPage=%2Fkeemu%2Fpages%2Fnrm%2Fnmuseum%2FQuery.php

They were taken over by Ainsworth in 1985.
 
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 Brad
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There used to be several poker machine manufacturers in Sydney.

I remember one called Olympic Amusements - they used to make 'card machines' which were a derivative of poker machines and were commonplace in pubs. The odd thing was, the 'cardies' operated more like a poker machine than a poker machine does, offering the chance to throw away bad cards to improve the hand you ended up gambling on.


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