Thank you, operator. Good afternoon and welcome to WMS Industries’ conference call to discuss our record fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and full year results, our guidance for fiscal 2009, and the operating trends and competitive strength that support our outlook for fiscal 2009.

With me today are Brian Gamache, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Orrin Edidin, President, and Scott Schweinfurth, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Before we start, let me review our Safe Harbor language.

Our call today contains forward-looking statements concerning the outlook for WMS and future business conditions. These statements are based on currently available information and involve certain risks and uncertainties.

The Company’s actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements depending on the factors described under “Item 1. Business-Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on form 10-K for the year ending June 30, 2007 and in our more recent reports filed with the SEC.

The forward-looking statements made on this call and webcast, the archived version of the webcast and in any transcripts of this call are only made as of this date, August 5, 2008. Now, let me turn the call over to Brian.

Good afternoon everyone. Today, WMS reported record results for the June quarter that put a strong exclamation mark on our fiscal 2008, our best year ever and the fifth consecutive year we achieved strong double-digit growth in both revenue and profit.

Fiscal 2008 diluted earnings per share increased 34% to $1.15 on annual revenue growth of 20%, which clearly demonstrates our ability to generate both ongoing revenue traction and consistent progress in operating execution even against the challenging headwinds of a difficult replacement cycle and a weak economy. WMS has now met or exceeded its revenue guidance in each of the last nine consecutive quarters, during one of the toughest market environments in industry history.

And overall, WMS has met or beat revenue guidance in 14 out of the last 16 quarters with the two exceptions resulting from the impact from Hurricane Katrina and the closing of the Russian market. We achieved this track record thanks to the imagination and innovation of all the WMS team who create, produce, deliver, and service some of the highest earning products in casino floors.

Our annual operating margin increased 240 basis points to 16% and eclipsed 18% in the fourth quarter. Our operating execution also led to cash flow from operating activities increasing 57% over last year to a record $186 million.

The significant cash flow we are now generating provides a solid foundation for funding a substantial array of future growth opportunities and enables us to simultaneously reinvest in WMS through accelerated R&D initiatives and through opportunistic share repurchases, as evidenced in the June quarter by our aggressive $25 million buyback. Throughout fiscal 2008, we continued to implement our lean sigma initiatives and maintain a disciplined focus on executing our strategies for near, mid-, and long-term.

This discipline resulted in our ongoing share gains in North American unit shipments, steady double-digit growth in our participation business earned through the increases in both our installed footprint and average daily revenue, continued international expansion, growing margins, culminating in our product gross sales margin of 50%, and gamin operations margin of 81%, and an operating margin of 18% in the June quarter. Improvement in our working capital realization increased cash flow from operations and the strengthening of an already rock solid balance sheet.

I am very pleased with the success we are achieving expanding our revenue opportunities. With increased international sales, higher conversion in used game revenues, and rising gaming operations revenues, we have reduced our reliance on the North America new unit demand, and these factors position us well for continued growth in fiscal 2009.

And we are driving our revenue growth productively. In fiscal 2008, our average revenue per employee increased 11% or approximately $45,000 to $438,000 per employee, a compound annual growth rate of 15% over the last five years.

I also want to note the quality of our earnings in fiscal 2008. We achieved 38% growth in annual net income to $68 million even as we significantly accelerated our spending for R&D activities, which rose $22 million year-over-year or $6 million more than we spent the entire first year when I joined the Company in 2000.

Looking a little deeper, we also were impacted by a higher year-over-year tax rate, which reduced annual diluted earnings per share by $0.07 and we recorded a write down to net realizable value of a license technology, which amounted to $0.04 in the fourth quarter. In particular, our high return focused investments in R&D, continued development of our talented workforce and Company wide culture of innovation (inaudible) that are driving our continued success.

Reinvesting in innovation and technology continues to generate an expanding pipeline of high earning must-have products that enable global share gains for WMS both in our product sales and participation businesses. As we have grown, we have also evolved as an organization.

Today, we have a much broader, deeper, and experienced team all from our passion committed to innovation and continuous improvement. And with our success and momentum this team is even more motivated and inspired as we begin our fiscal 2009.

To summarize, it’s clear that WMS is a company that has established a consistent record of getting the job done, achieving superior revenue growth, substantial operating margin improvement, and significant acceleration in cash flow. With our record fiscal 2008 performance now complete and recognizing your interest is now on our future expectations, Orrin and Scott will focus their comments on our guidance for fiscal 2009, our operating trends, and the capabilities and the competitive strengths that support our outlook for continued growth in fiscal 2009.

Orrin?

Thanks, Brian, and good afternoon everyone. As you all know, the current operating environment is characterizing North America by a challenging replacement cycle and a weak economy.

These have been two defining characteristics throughout the last year and even longer as it relate to slow replacement cycle. These factors have caused casino operators to place increased emphasis on the earnings and return capabilities for the new products they continue to place on the slot floor.

And in response, WMS must place increased emphasis on innovation that drives further ship share gains along with increased focus on production efficiencies, customer satisfaction and margin improvements. Fortunately, this plays directly to the strengths of our systematic approach to product development and our successful business strategy.

It remains as true today as ever the players respond to exciting, imaginative, and differentiated games. Players, and especially frequent players who form the backbone of the industry through their repeat visits, are looking for value for their entertainment dollar along with the opportunity to win.

Players today are increasingly sophisticated in their use of technology and their choices of how they spend their entertainment dollars. And our casino customers demand products that produce high returns and that will attract a broader player audience to their slot floor, which even in slow economy remains the core profitability and provides the highest return on investment for most casino operators.

This environment places focus squarely on WMS’ competitive advantage, creating great content. Through our dual development focus of pursuing the advancement of innovative technologies and creating imaginative, new gaming experiences, we are consistently developing differentiated at exciting products that address the entertainment value needs of players and consistently meet and often exceed the financial return needs of our casino customers as evidenced by our revenue growth in this trough of the replacement cycle.

Despite all of the industry headlines, with WMS offering appealing, innovative, and high earning products, we have gained and expect to continue gaining market share, thus offsetting much of the impact of the weak economy and replacement cycle. As an illustration, in July, we began the rollout of our fourth foundational technology platform for participation, Adaptive Gaming.

This is another important step in our technological path towards full network gaming as these games utilize the system capabilities that reside in our existing wide area network. These new games have unique ability to be personalized by player who will be able to unlock additional bonus rounds and new episodes over time, enabling an episodic recognition and reward experience for the player.

Players on STAR TREK games are able to restart their game where they last left off whenever they log back onto a game at any casino, thus continuing to advance to different bonus rounds and unlock new episodes. Collectively, these features enhance the player’s gaming experience and drive higher time on device which results in enhanced earnings performance and longevity of the game.

And while STAR TREK is still in the early stages of its rollout, both players and operators have shown great enthusiasm for this networked gaming product. Our success over the last few years has been driven by the multi-year strategy we developed to design and deliver unique content on new platforms that utilize the foundational technology building blocks that support the future networked gaming environment.

We did not place all of our eggs in one giant server-based basket, nor are we commercializing technology per se but rather we are commercializing server-enabled network products and applications that directly generate top line revenue growth for our compared customers. We are methodology commercializing network gaming technologies and a well planned rollout of unique products on a (inaudible) that already is clearly achieving great success across casino floors.

Our product transition path creates commercialized revenue producing products at each step. From our floor sales products such as our Innovation Series and our new mechanical reel products that continue to grow in marketplace acceptance, including a new multi-game Transmissive Reels product launching in the September 2008 quarter, to the new participation categories we have established such as Community Gaming, Transmissive Reels, and Sensory Immersion gaming, and now, our Adaptive Gaming platform, as well as our CPU-NXT2 operating platform.

And in the December 2008 quarter we will launch our full server ready Bluebird2 gaming machine. The launch of Bluebird2 will allow customers the opportunity to purchase the latest technological capabilities for the slot floors, which we believe may serve as a catalyst to accelerate replacement market demand with obvious upside potential implications for revenue upside.

Even if a casino is not planning to implement a floor-wide network gaming solution in the near-term, the Bluebird2 platform offers attractive operating and aesthetic benefits that we believe will drive customers to purchase at a higher price this latest high value-added technology for the casino floor. In addition to being network ready, the Bluebird2 has two widescreen LCDs, a new improved state-of-the-art Bose audio system, and comes packaged in a great looking cabinet that requires 20% less footprint, improving profitability per square foot.

The success of our transition strategy has driven improvement in key performance metrics that we believe are also strong indicators for driving further success. Let me touch on few metrics that demonstrate how we expect to achieve our fiscal 2009 guidance.

Our open orders for new gaming machines and platform conversion kits totaled more than 11,700, which represents 40% of our fiscal 2009 unit volume guidance and is 700 units ahead of where we stood last year at this time. It also includes more than 1100 Bluebird2 units, which only reflects specific orders for this new platform before the full commercial launch of the product scheduled for our December 2008 quarter.

Our average selling price guidance for fiscal 2009 represents a 3% to 8% increase over the actual results realized this past quarter, reflecting the favorable impact on our sales mix that will result from the introduction of the new premium prize Bluebird2 gaming platform. To those who believe that discounting runs rampant, our fourth quarter results demonstrate that we appropriately charge for the value add in our products and we expect to continue that trend in fiscal 2009.

Our annual average installed participation base guidance represents 300 to 450 more units, a 3% to 5% increase from the ending footprint on June 30, 2008, and our open orders for new placements and conversion total 2000 units. We expect our average daily revenue for fiscal 2009, which now exceeds the daily revenue averages reported by our competitors, to approximate the rate earned in fiscal 2008.

In light of the current economic environment we are reluctant to project continued winning, win-per-day increases at this time although our WAP rate in July 2008 continues to trend well sequentially and year-over-year. We expect to commercialize between 85 and 100 new game titles worldwide in fiscal 2009, a record new product pipeline, which we expect will continue to drive further market share gains.

I’d also like to point out the tremendous diversification we have today in our customer base. No single or multi-site customer accounted for more than 4% of our unit shipments in fiscal 2008 and Nevada casinos in total comprise less than 10% of our total product sales revenues in fiscal 2008.

Updating you on our continued progress with our WAGE-NET server based system, just last week we expanded our testing with a field trial at a prominent Las Vegas strip casino. And as noted in previous calls, WAGE-NET is the first GSA-compliant system and has been undergoing a technical field test in a native American casino.

We continue to be encouraged by the feedback thus far and we remain on track for expected commercial launch in mid-calendar 2009. And yes the five key operating strategies repeatedly emphasized by Brian that led to your record financial success and drove our consistent operating execution of fiscal 2008 will continue to guide our operations in fiscal 2009.

Now, let me turn the call over to Scott to briefly discuss and review our fourth quarter and full year operating results and to further discuss our outlook and guidance for fiscal 2009. Scott?

Good afternoon everyone. We achieved a significant number of record financial and operating highlights, both in the June quarter and for full fiscal year.

Once again, we exceeded our revenue targets due to the continued strong demand for our high earning products. For the year, we exceeded the high end of our original annual revenue guidance of $615 million by $35 million, or 6%.

And we achieved the high end of our operating margin guidance of 16% even with significantly increased R&D spending and other higher expenses throughout the year. For the June 2008 quarter total revenues were a quarterly record, $186 million, up 17%, and annual revenues were $650 million, up 20% over the last year.

For fiscal 2009, we expect to achieve total revenues of $712 million to $728 million or a growth of 10% to 12% over fiscal 2008. This range reflects what we realistically expect to achieve through organic growth trends, but we doubt that this guidance also fully considers our outlook for the impact of a continued weak economy and the continued softness of the North American replacement cycle.

New unit product shipments increased 8% in the June 2008 quarter to a record 8180 gaming machines, and grew 9% for the full year to 27,931 units while the average selling price increased to a record $13,147 in the quarter. We expect to drive new unit product sales revenue growth in fiscal 2009 by increasing global unit shipments up 5% to 7% along with achieving a higher average realized selling price, up 5% to 11% due to both anticipated list price increases and the benefit from adding our higher price Bluebird2 gaming machine to the sales mix, which should benefit the March and June 2009 quarters after the full commercial launch in the December 2008 quarter.

The initial results from the early pre-launch Bluebird2 units sold in the June quarter are very favorable and we will produce and ship approximately 500 more Bluebird2 units in the September 2008 quarter. Overall, customer demand is running stronger than expected.

I would also note that consistent with past practice, our unit guidance does not reflect any units for new jurisdictions or location where regulatory or legislative hurdles still remain, such as in Kansas, Maryland, the new casino properties in Pennsylvania, the Dade County, Florida racinos, and potential new California compacts. If any of these hurdles are removed, we would look to revise our unit shipment guidance for fiscal 2009.

At June 30, 2008, our footprint of installed participation units was 9321 gaming machines, or up nearly 300 units since March 31st, 2008. In fiscal 2008, our installed based increased 13%, or 1045 units above the fiscal 2007 year-end level.

Our average daily rate for the June quarter climbed to a record $68.13, a 13% increase over the June 2007 quarter, partially reflecting the benefit of a higher mix of wide-area progressive games in the installed base and higher play levels across our broad array of participation games. Our average revenue per day in the June 2008 increased 6% sequentially over the March 2008 quarter, largely reflecting higher plays levels on WMS games as our web footprint was comparable to the March 2008 quarter.

Clearly, the slowing economy has not yet reduced our average daily revenue. For the full fiscal year, our average daily revenue reached $63.34, double our expected increase over the last year as a result of the success of our new games and the strategy change a year ago to better optimize the balance of growth in the average daily revenue with the footprint growth compared to our prior strategy of maximizing the growth of the installed footprint.

With the rollout of new and exciting participation games, and our continued discipline to selectively place these new units, we expect to increase our average installed base by 9% to 11% to 9600 to 9750 units for fiscal 2009. Customer performance hurdle rates for placement remained high but with our open backlog of order that continue and our continued discipline in selectively placing our new products, we believe this is a realistic growth for next year.

And we also believe it’s prudent to expect that the mix of WAP units in our overall installed base and the average daily revenue will be constrained by the impact from a weak economy, likely resulting in an average daily rate that is consistent with fiscal 2008. However, by continuing to more efficiently utilize our capital in this business, we expect that the participation business will continue provide a strong component of our profitable growth and increase our cash flows from operations.

Turning to margin improvement, after recording a write-down to net realizable value of $3.7 million, or 2% of revenues, we attained an operating margin of 18.3% in the June quarter. Our 16.1% operating margin for the full year was a healthy 240 basis points higher than the prior year end and as previously mentioned at the high end of our guidance.

This improvement was largely accomplished through a 290 basis point increase in gross profit margin to 59.4% for the full year, which exceeded our guidance of 57% to 58%, and for the June quarter our total gross margin was 60.2%. With anticipated additional benefits from lean sigma and strategic sourcing initiatives, increased volume, and higher selling prices, along with the projected growth of our high margin participation business, we expect to increase our gross margin further in fiscal 2009 to a range of 60% to 61% and enhance our operating margin to a range of 18% to 18.5%, a 190 to 240 basis point increase or similar to the improvement achieved in fiscal 2008.

With a guidance range of 50% to 51% on product sales gross margin, we expect to continue to close the gap with our larges competitor. We expect to achieve this higher gross margin by maintaining focus on lean sigma and strategic sourcing initiatives and continuing our assault on improving operating leverage in our business.

R&D expense rose to $26 million in the June quarter, or 14% or total revenues, and included a $3.7 million charge related to the write-down to net realizable value of a licensed technology. This charge impacted dilutive earnings per share by approximately $0.04.

For the full year R&D expense was $80 million, or 12% of total revenues. In fiscal 2009, as Orrin indicated, we are aggressively pursuing further innovation, technological advancements, and unique gaming experiences, those foundational elements that provide the differentiation and appeal of our products and which contribute to our continued market share gains and revenue increases.

As a result, we expect R&D expense to increase and be in a range of 13% to 14% of total revenues in fiscal 2009. I believe we have demonstrated time and again that WMS generates high returns and organic growth from our focused R&D activities, and we expect our higher spending should generate an appropriate return on investment.

While selling and administrative expense will increase in absolute dollar terms in fiscal 2009, we expect it to decrease as a percentage of total revenues to a range of 18% to 19%, similar to the level we achieved in the June 2008 quarter. Additionally, as a result of the improvements being made in the utilization of capital in gaming operations, WMS should also realize greater leverage on depreciation expense, continuing this trend from fiscal 2008 into fiscal 2009, particularly as a greater number of gaming machine base units now remain in the field longer and have been depreciated to their residual value.

As expected, the effective tax rate increased in the June quarter and was approximately 37%, principally reflecting the impact of the expiration of the federal R&D tax credit at December 31st, 2007. Looking forward, while federal legislators are discussing once again reinstating the R&D tax credit, we believe it is prudent at this time to project an average tax rate in the range of 36% to 37% for fiscal 2009.

We also initiated a revenue guidance of $145 million to $150 million for the September 2008 quarter, which represents growth of 9% to 13% over September 2007. If you analyze our quarterly revenue trends for the past two years, you would note that our fiscal first quarter is typically between 20% and 21% of annual revenues.

Our second quarter accounts for between 23% and 25%. Our third quarter accounts for between 25% and 27%, and our fourth quarter accounts for between 28% and 30% of annual revenues.

We expect fiscal 2009 to follow a similar seasonal pattern. Having achieved a record level of cash flow from operating activities in fiscal 2008, up 57% to $186 million, we believe we will make continued progress in fiscal 2009 as we have additional opportunities for improvement.

About a year ago we began placing an increased focus on driving better utilization from our working capital primarily by increasing inventory turns and reducing days sales outstanding. As a result of the progress made during the past four quarters, our total cash and cash equivalents increased from $53 million a year ago to $120 million at June 30, 2008, even as we invested in share repurchases and additional $118 million in other investing activities.

Another cash flow highlight was that our investment in gaming operation equipment in fiscal 2008 was only $50 million, down 34% from $76 million in the prior year even though we grew the installed base by more than 1000 units. Our already strong balance sheet continues to strengthen and is certainly well positioned to support our growth efforts.

As CFO, having a sound balance sheet in a challenging economic environment provides significant comfort and an added competitive advantage as we can fund accelerated R&D, intellectual property purchases and/or licenses, while also retaining substantial dry powder for advantageous share repurchases. In the June quarter, the market provided greater opportunities to repurchase shares at very attractive prices and we aggressively acted on our repurchase program.

We repurchased 763,190 shares at an average price of $32.75 for an aggregate consideration of $25 million. Reflecting the $100 million additional authorization announced today, we now have a total of approximately $110 million available for repurchase over the next two years.

And with that, let me turn the call back to Brian for final comments.

Thank you, Scott. I think it is abundantly clear that WMS is differently situated than our competitors and well positioned for the future.

The record performance we achieved in fiscal 2008 in the phase of a challenge environment is solid evidence that WMS clearly understands our market, has the ability to execute, and knows how to effectively operate in good times and in bad. Expanding revenue opportunities and managing expenses is nothing new for WMS.

In fact, it’s a core competency. As we enter fiscal 2009, I believe we have excellent visibility to our path of continued progress.

Before opening the call for your questions let me summarize the unique competitive strengths WMS has in support of optimism for fiscal 2009. First, the continuing appeal of our products with players.

Our culture of innovation and focus on developing differentiated gaming experiences is backed by technology advancements. Coupling that focus with an understanding of what defines entertainment value for our players is our special software product development.

That combination drives our expansion of popular products that generate high earnings for the operators and has moved our products into the must-have category. Second, WMS is well positioned to benefit from opportunities ahead of the full adoption of network gaming.

As I have said many times, while we love for network gaming to arrive tomorrow, we also have a clear strategy (inaudible) our transition path that generates continued growth and profitable success bank-by-bank, quarter-by-quarter. Having a clearly defined vision of the benefits made possible and the service supported in network gaming environment we have continued to commercialize unique products and system applications that allow players exciting new gaming experiences that they value and provide customers with continued high returns that they seek.

We will be locked and loaded when server based gaming arrives in prime time. And third, our ongoing evolution as an organization allows us to not only grow our revenues, but also generate improved operating consistency to further enhance our margins and deliver greater free cash flow.

We have proven our ability to tap the imagination of our people to create intellectual property innovative great games. So too are we dedicated to be an innovator in improving our supply chain practices, our customer service, and our overall business processes.

We are still in the early innings of implementing these tools and forging a mindset of continuous improvement and have only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible in enhancing our margins. We now have a great depth and breadth of workforce skill and experience and as we benchmark industry leaders in this and other industries, we believe we have substantial opportunities to drive long-term profitability and build increased stockholder value.

By remaining focused on our strategic plans and operating execution, we are confident that our success will yield rewarding results for our stockholders. We are, and remain, a growth Company, and as such I believe it’s increasingly that WMS thinks and acts differently about this business and is serious about driving innovation, and enterprise excellence in order to exceed stockholder expectations.

Now, we will be happy to take your questions, operator.

Hey guys, good results.

Thanks Joe.

Thanks Joe.

Question for you I was hoping that you can just give us a big picture of you in terms of the operating environment particularly on the participation side of things you are obviously – your guidance suggests that you are continuing to grow that, but within the different types of participation games what are your customers dealing in terms of what they are removing, what they are going with, and as they are trying to reduce expenses. And then a second easier question, Scott, maybe you can sort of talk about what are your fiscal ’09 outlook and guidance in terms of what you are forecasting in terms of additions to the gaming operations equipment CapEx and just CapEx overall.

Joe, I will take the first part if I may. Regarding participation business, we are not seeing what our competitors are seeing.

The strongest indicator of our strength is the daily yield. The June win per day numbers were the highest in our history and continue to trend upward for July and the first week in August.

So, that’s really the strongest determining factor if our games are going to hold up or not. We have a 2000 unit backlog, as Orrin mentioned, and the current products in the field Wizard of Oz, Bigger Bang Big Event, MONOPLOY Up, Up and Away, and Happy Days are the key drivers to the backlog.

And then going forward, when you look at the various products we have coming down, we have our Q1 debut of our Adaptive Gaming platform with STAR TREK and DIRTY HARRY 2 on our Sensory Immersion platform. Q2 we have our Transmissive Wizard of Oz, which has scored very well in our benchmark testing.

Q2 we have the POWERBALL Powerseat [ph] which is Community Gaming non-WAP product. And then Q3 we have Reel 'em In Compete to Win, our Community Gaming WAP, which was very popular last year’s G2E.

So, when you look at the four platforms, Adaptive, Community, Sensory Immersion, Transmissive, we are not just brining out game things anymore. We are really focusing on those platforms to drive unique enablement to the games and the success we are having is just incredible.

And so I think our participation business albeit is somewhat challenged in this environment we are seeing that our win per day and our footprint continue to grow and it’s at the strength of the content.

And then Joe on your question about CapEx this last year between gaming ops and property, plant, and equipment, we have spent just under $100 million, and that was down about $10 million from the prior year. I would expect that the level of spending for fiscal ’09 will be within that range of dollars.

Okay. Great.

Thank you very much.

Hi gentlemen, good evening.

Good evening, Celeste.

Just – I know you guys like to take a conservative approach to guidance and I think Orrin mentioned one aspect in which you are being conservative. I think Orrin you said that your guidance doesn’t forecast continued increases in win per day.

First of all, is that right? And then where else do you think – where else are you guiding sort of against the trend that you are seeing today for the sake of what’s going on in the economy?

I think in the eight years I have been putting these budgets together for our Company, Celeste, this has certainly been the most difficult budget to prepare for our Board and the shareholders. But we are going to still have incremental market share growth in ’09, continue success in gaming ops international.

We have obviously the Bluebird2 platform and Transmissive Reels will create some new demand. Our average selling price we are forecasting up.

And our continued growth in our margin improvement plan. So, we are hitting on all cylinders now but unfortunately we are not prepared to stick our heads out there any further because of the uncertainty.

As time goes on and if things do get better and if our products do continue to yield the kind of winds that they are yielding, we will update this guidance, as we have in the past. If you will recall, last year, I believe we update our guidance twice during the year and that served us well.

And again we are very proud of our visibility that we have here today as a business. I mentioned the track record of making our earnings and revenue guidance that we are giving and we want to continue to hit those milestones.

Okay. And then I notice you put the open orders and the backlog back in the press release, haven’t put them in over years.

Wondering why the change there/

Well we thought we needed to provide a path for the investors to understand how we are as confident about fiscal ’09 as we are relative to the guidance that we’ve provided of 712 to 728.

And it’s just one more data point, Celeste, as to why we are different than the others.

Okay. And then finally in terms of share repurchases, you increased your authorization.

Is there sort of a target amount that you would like to buy back in fiscal ’09 or is it just sort of as the market allows you?

No, I think it’s really going to be – it’s going to be on the opportunistic visibility that we see and we will look at the market from time-to-time to determine what’s the best use of our funds, but the Board has great confidence in our future. And again, we bought back I think 12% of the outstanding shares over the last five or six years and we’ve got a good track record of buying the stock opportunistically and that would bode well for the future.

Okay. And then just finally one last question for Scott.

The $0.04 write-down because of the licensing, can you give more detail on that?

Sure, we had a technology license that served us – served a certain purpose but at this point in time the realizable value from that license was not what we had it on the books for and so we took a write-down of $3.7 million in this quarter to take it down to what we believe it’s realizable value will actually be.

Okay. Thank you.

Hi, afternoon.

Hi David.

Can we just talk about – I know that we on Wall Street are sort of privy to the publicly traded customers of yours and what they are saying and what they are reporting. Can you give us a little bit of a – some geography or lesson on where some of your stuff is coming from and then if I could add onto that within the guidance that you have for next year, if you could talk about how many of how much is coming from international markets versus domestic.

Well the mix of business in our fiscal ’09 budget is about the same as it is now, it’s about a third of our box sales. So that’s really not changing a whole lot.

As far as – I think Orrin mentioned it, we only do about 10% of our box sales in the state of Nevada, less than 10%, actually. We have 440 customers that we serve in North America.

So we – and not one of our customers represents more than 4%. So, I believe in this economic environment and probably justifiably so a lot of the focus gets on the Nevada-centric gaming companies.

We actually do a greater amount of our business in the Midwest and then California and some of the east coast states. So we are not reliant on any one jurisdiction, and I just came back from a call it a 20-casino tour over the last four to five weeks and a lot of the casinos are seeing a little bit of a degradation from a year ago, call it the 5% to 6% range, but all of them, with the exception of a couple, are still going to buy slot machines, are still going to replace their floor, and they believe that that’s the engine that keeps their train moving.

So, we don’t expect other than some of the customers that are financially strapped that this is going to be any different than Orrin said in the last few years. This is not a new trend.

We have been seeing this – this trough in replacement cycle now for the last two to three years and because of our content, because of our innovation, we are still able to garner more than our fair share of market share and we are going to continue to see that in ’09 based on the pipeline of games that we have coming out.

Okay. Thanks.

Two more quick ones if I may. Your guidance I assume on the installed base in participation excludes daily fee games, and as I look sort of year-over-year at the growth in those, is that fair assumption to use as a growth rate for ’09?

If by daily fee games you mean games that we sell to the casino, we call them casino on daily fee games—

Yeah.

Yes. Those – our guidance excludes that.

And the makeup of that will just be dependent upon customer preferences for the different pricing models that we have for our games.

Okay. And then lastly on your share repurchase, could you just talk about your strategy for that?

Are you making capital decisions? Are you picking – are you trying to make calls on your stock and when the right moment is to dive in?

If you could just walk us through your thinking there it would help.

Well I think that we have opportunistically been in the market when we feel that the share repurchase is low and obviously starting in June of this year the share price started getting down to levels that we found particularly attractive and so we were in the market heavier than we had been prior to that. And this the practice that we’ve used throughout the $92 million of stock that we’ve bought back since 2002 and I believe that that will be the same strategy that we use moving forward.

Okay. Perfect.

Thanks very much.

Okay, David.

Hey guys this is Bill, how are you doing?

Hey Bill.

Hey Bill.

A couple of questions, one, just to go back to revenue guidance for a second, I don’t know whether Brian or Scott wants to take that. In trying to frame your sort of initial revenue guidance for fiscal ’09 of 10% to 12%, when I go back and look at a year ago when you guided to fiscal ’08, you guided to revenue growth from 10% to 14% and then ended up delivering 20% revenue growth after revising upward a couple of times during the year as you kind of implied Brian could potentially happen here.

What change in fiscal ’08 from your original guidance to in being able to deliver what you did today, which is almost 2X that original guidance from extreme to extreme – that we can may be apply to fiscal ’09 and then I have a follow-up.

I think new gaming expansion, Bill, occurred during the year. We had the California effect when they signed the compacts in January, I believe, and that positively affected our third quarter of this year.

We also had great demand for participation products and the yield certainly on the Wizard of Oz and other – Top Gun and other games has certainly exceeded our expectations and at the end of the day a lot of things happened to break our way this year. Not to say that they won't next year, but again we are overly concerned about all the macro effect.

We are not concerned about our ability to execute internally. We are focused on a lot the noise that’s out there on the economy and the overall oil prices and unemployment and so forth that are out of our control.

So call me conservative, call me silly, call me whatever you want, but we want to make sure that we give a forecast and have a cost structure in our business model that allows us to operate this Company that’s good to the shareholders.

Okay.

And I think over the last couple of year, we have – at the start of the initial guidance we have stated what we have specifically excluded from the guidance like I did in the prepared remarks earlier. We have done the same thing for fiscal ’08 and it just so happened during fiscal ’08 a couple of the items that we had included the hurdles were lifted and we were able to sell into those markets.

And so that’s what helped drive the incremental growth and if the same thing occurs in fiscal ’09 we would modify our guidance accordingly.

We would love nothing more, Bill, to modify that guidance, upwards.

Okay. Just one clarification and then the follow-up.

I got a couple of emails during this conference call people saying, Scott, during your prepared remarks that they thought you said your revenue guidance does not take into account a tough economy. It didn’t make sense to me.

No, it’s does take into account.

Yeah, obviously takes into – it contemplates the current environment, obviously. Okay, and then the follow-up is, you have got this 11,700 unit backlog for sale and conversion – games and conversion kits and I think 2000 units for participation, gross participation placements I guess is what it is, and that’s great.

There is a lot skeptics in general out there especially for the gaming suppliers these days. Can you talk for a second, I don’t whether this is Orrin or whomever, about backlog conversion?

I mean it’s great as a number, but as conversion in that backlog over time been 90% so we can feel even better about the guidance you are giving guys?

Yeah, it’s – I think we have pretty well proven track record of converting that backlog into the field and we are continuing to manage and build it consistently throughout the year.

And by the way nothing is on that backlog until it’s a signed a deal. I mean we don’t put speculation on that.

Yeah, these are deals in the pipe. So, we feel very good about converting the pipeline, particularly on the gaming ops side when you look at the success that we are having with these products.

The customers are clamoring to get these products on their floor. It’s WMS that’s being more selective in its placement.

So that is – that demand continues to build as we execute on the strategy of selective placements and deployment of capital on the gaming ops side.

And to that point, Bill, this is the best visibility we have had in the eight years I have been here. So I think that – the guidance we have given you today we feel very comfortable given all the parameters that we are dealing with.

Okay, thanks guys.

Hey, good afternoon. Guys.

Hey Steve.

Hi just one question for you. It’s a bigger picture type question in terms of server based gaming, but maybe, first of all, Brian, can you kind of touch on a few on your 20-casino tour, what you heard out in the field.

And then for Orrin, you touched on it in terms of the (inaudible) going right now on the strip. What has been the feedback so far?

What did they like? What did they think needs improvement?

I think the operators in general, Steve, are a little bit skeptical because they really don’t understand quite frankly ho to model the business in the server based world. We are going to go out of our way at G2E this year as a Company to walk them down that path.

They understand all the negatives, the investment and capital and so forth. They don’t really understand the upside very well.

And that’s our strategy to bring these products out bank-by-bank, quarter-by-quarter to give them a comfort level so that when this business does get turned on we will be at the front of the bus with games and experience out there that the players are embracing. And again, it’s all going to be determined by the success of server based gaming on how the players adapt to that new product and we believe our strategy is focused on that player and his experience and her experience at the end of the line.

Orrin, you want to touch the rest of it?

Sure. And I want to make sure that we are clear, Steve.

Two major underpinnings of our network gaming strategy are both network enabled games products such as the ones we are currently commercializing like Adaptive Gaming, which is network enabled, and then the enterprise wide applications such as we are field trialing both on the strip and in the native American casino. And those versions are performing a basic functionality of remote configuration and download because we are taking this incremental steps in terms of getting these cleared with our – with regulators.

The initial reception has been very, very positive particularly in terms of the ease in which the operators have been able to fire these up and get them going almost practically immediately with very little help from our techs. In fact, to tell one quick story, when we sent our techs out to help with a particular setup and before our techs arrived the operators and their own in-house techs had the system up and running and configured on the floor.

So they were very, very pleases, may be based on their prior experience comparatively with the ease with which they were able to utilize our first system implementation there.

Okay, great. Thanks guys.

Hey good afternoon. Nice set of results, guys.

Thanks Ralph.

Hi Ralph.

Just curious, I know it’s early innings [ph] but what’s driving the stronger than expected demand on the Bluebird2 rollout? Was it just conservatism on your part and if we can sort of take this one step further is there an opportunity even with the tough economic end market and environment to test further pricing increases on the product?

Well, again, we have (inaudible) of pricing and we believe that our products call for premium pricing. That being said, as Orrin said, we have 1100 backlog on the new cabinet and we really haven’t even been aggressively selling it.

This is customers coming to us saying can you deliver to us by the end of this calendar year? So we are very optimistic.

Again, we have a number baked into our fiscal ’09 number that was somewhat conservative based on the environment we are in and we are pleased to see we are getting this kind of reaction from the customers who come in here to Chicago to preview our G2E products, in particular. So, yes, we are getting a very positive reception.

We think that’s going to bode well for new incremental revenue opportunities in fiscal ’09.

Great. Thank you.

Good quarter fellow.

Thank you.

My question pertains to the international markets. Could you give us a little more details where there was subscribers [ph] or not did you still continue to do well particularly in Asia?

I think that our international strength continues to come from Europe, Asia, and South America, in particular, and each quarter it kind of rotates around between the three different areas, but we continue to see tremendous reception to our products. As we said previously, Kent, that the ability for us to launch our themes globally simultaneously has proven to be a big help.

And also the expansion of our distribution team throughout the world has been a big help as well. So we continue to think that international growth is coming – continue to be a very profitable growth driver for the Company for the years to come.

And just a quick follow-up on (inaudible) gaming. It seems to keep growing particularly on conversion to regular machines from the more (inaudible) machines.

How is that affecting your operations? Was there significant orders in the quarter or did you see that continuing into the next year?

Well, yes, this is Orrin, particularly out of places like Florida where Class II markets are converting to Class III markets and that’s not the first time we have seen that. That tends to be sort of the pattern.

But native American gaming continues to grow. We have had a substantial portion of our business from the native American markets and we are seeing that type of conversion from Class II to Class III.

Thank you.

Hi guys.

Hey Steve.

Hi Steve.

What’s really the main driver of the ASP rise – the guidance that you provided?

It’s really a mix of business, Steve. We have an annual price increase that we have had in place all along and then the additional Bluebird2 cabinets to the inventory are going to – and Transmissive are going to be at a higher sales price, so it’s really a mix of business more than it is anything dramatic in our price increases.

Okay. And did you give a domestic unit sale breakdown for the quarter?

Yes.

Yes. That was in the press release.

Let me get it for you. We did 5721 in North America and 2459 internationally.

Okay. And then last one, you addressed it somewhat earlier but I guess if you are seeing any change in pattern in your customers in term of shifting towards participation or shifting away from participation into unit sales.

Is there any meaningful shift there?

We have not seen that, Steve, may be some of the other competitors of ours have, but we have not seen that yet. That – some of those casinos I walked in some of the customers want more of our product and we selectively tried to manage that.

But for the most part we see the same mix of business. Our revenue mix is pretty similar in that 60:40 range and we don’t see that – that’s going to continue to remain similar in fiscal 2009.

Okay. Thanks guys.

Good morning guys or good afternoon guys again. Long day with a lot of earnings.

The EBITDA results that you have at the end of the press release, does that add back in the $3.7 million write-down or is that – does that adjust for that?

I don’t believe that we did.

Okay. So it would have been north of $70 million for the quarter?

Yeah.

And my sense is you are probably not going to answer this directly because another competitor of yours has yet to report earnings, but you do mention in your fiscal ’09 outlook that you continue – or you anticipate to see continued shipped share gains. I was hoping you quantify that.

What you are expecting in fiscal ’09 and maybe broadly answer where you think fiscal ’08 ended up.

Again, we don’t have the information – two of our competitors haven’t released yet, Joe. But again, we believe because the benchmarking of market research on our new products and then Innovations series that we are going to be launching at G2E this year, we believe that our ability to gain market share will continue.

When you look at our success in the mechanical reels that was 25% of our sales I believe in Q4. And two years ago we didn’t serve that market.

So I think that you are going to continue to see our market share growth and particularly in the Innovation series.

And I would add that we expect to see that both on the international side of the business as well as the domestic side of the business in terms of shipped share increases.

Thank you.

Thank you, operator. And thank you for joining us this afternoon.

We look forward to reporting on our additional progress on our next call when we will discuss our September quarter results. Have a nice afternoon.