Within the gaming industry, Eastern Europe has always been synonymous with software. For as long as anyone can remember, countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Estonia have produced more than their fair share of software houses, companies whose small development teams have crafted some of the most innovative slots and table games.

While the quality can vary greatly – for every great Eastern European company there’s a run-of-the-mill one whose graphics are stuck in the 80s – the region still retains its reputation for excellence within the iGaming sector. Mega Jack are a typical success story.

The company was founded in 1999 in Bulgaria. Back then, it operated under the name of Casino Technology. The slots that Mega Jack developed under its previous moniker found their way into the Eastern European market. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many businesses who had hitherto dealt exclusively within this sector, including former communist countries across European Europe, suddenly found the market wide open. Now they were free to sell their wares to the world and Mega Jack lost no time in going about this.

Bulgarian Slots

The slots that Mega Jack developed in the early days were a mixture of original titles as well as games that were thinly disguised copies of existing slots developed by Western European companies. This practice is extremely common within Eastern Europe and is one that remains to this day across the Russian gambling market, Bulgaria, and other territories. It may seem derivative, but it provides a means for players to experience games in their language and currency – games that the original developers hadn’t seen fit to bring to their part of the world.

After mastering slots, it was natural that Mega Jack would turn their talents to other facets of the booming gaming industry and this they did with gusto. Starting in 2001, the company began to produce, distribute and service casino games and equipment, having been awarded a licence to do so. This included arcade games and cabinet-based slots, automatic and semi-automatic roulette and other casino systems.

Games such as Champagne Party, Aztec Gold and Slot-o-Pol helped Mega Jack gain a foothold in this market and to make a name for itself in land-based casinos, bars and betting shop.