Merkur

History

Established in 1957, Gauselmann Group was a family-owned, internationally operating business group in the entertainment and leisure industry. Their customer facing brand was called Merkur. This brand got so ubiquitous, they eventually renamed their company to Merkur Group in 2022. In current times they remain active as a gambling machine brand for the most part, but they used to make arcade machines too, and in the early 2000s, had their stab at the touch machine craze with their Merkur Trendy.

Trendy Machines

Year	Name
2001	Trendy (original)
2002	Trendy Compact
2003	Trendy Arcade
2002	Trendy TT
2005+	Trendy T2

Trendy Software Releases

Announced	Name	Dongle FSS
04.02.2002	Update E3
26.06.2002	Update E3.1
25.11.2002	Update E4
23.12.2002	Update E5
28.04.2003	Update E5.1
25.09.2003	Update E6
XX.XX.2005	2005 No Limit System CD	Base Install
XX.XX.2005	No Limit 2005	FSS 147
29.06.2005	No Limit 2005 plus	FSS 147
27.01.2006	No Limit 2006	FSS 154
29.05.2006	2006 WM-Update	FSS 154
26.09.2006	No Limit 2006 plus	FSS 154
05.01.2007	No Limit 2007	FSS 161
XX.XX.2007	No Limit 2007 Plus	FSS 161
XX.XX.2008	No Limit 2008	FSS 168
27.08.2008	No Limit 2008 plus	FSS 168
05.01.2009	No Limit 2009	FSS 175
28.10.2009	No Limit 2009 plus	FSS 175
03.03.2010	No Limit 2010	FSS 182

Announcement dates are from the automatenmarkt.de archive.

E-series ran Windows 98, No Limit ran Windows XP Embedded