As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
                           April 4, 1997.
                                  Registration No. 333-_____
                                                            

             SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                   Washington, D.C. 20549
                     ___________________

                          FORM S-8
                   REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                            UNDER
                 THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                     ___________________

                INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY
   (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                     ___________________

     Nevada                                88-0173041
(State or other jurisdiction of         (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)         Identification No.)

             5270 Neil Road, Reno, Nevada  89502
          (Address of principal executive offices)

    INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY 1993 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                  (Full title of the plan)

                         Brian McKay
  Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Treasurer
                INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY
             5270 Neil Road, Reno, Nevada  89502
           (Name and address of agent for service)
                     ___________________

Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: 
(702) 448-7777
                     ___________________

                          Copy to:
                   Joseph J. Herron, Esq.
                      O'MELVENY & MYERS
            610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1700
              Newport Beach, California  92660

              CALCULATION  OF REGISTRATION  FEE
                                                             

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
<S>                      <C>            <C>                 <C>             <C>
                                        Proposed            Proposed
                                        maximum             maximum
Title of                 Amount         offering            aggregate      Amount of
securities               to be          price               offering       registration
to be registered         registered     Per unit price      fee

Common Stock, $0.000625  2,000,000<1>   $15.9375<2>         $31,875,000<2> $9,660<2>
par value per share      shares                  
                                                             
______________                                               
<FN>
<1> This Registration Statement covers, in addition to the
    number of shares of Common Stock stated above, options to
    purchase or acquire the shares of Common Stock covered by
    the Prospectus and, pursuant to Rule 416, an additional
    indeterminate number of shares and options which by
    reason of certain events specified in the Plan may become
    subject to the Plan.

<2> Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering price, per
    share and in the aggregate, and the registration fee were
    calculated based upon the average of the high and low
    prices of the Common Stock on April 1, 1997, as reported
    on the New York Stock Exchange and published in the
    Western Edition of the Wall Street Journal.

    The Exhibit Index included in this Registration Statement
    is at page S-3.

</FN>
</TABLE>

   The Prospectus which contains the information required
pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), relates to a registration statement on
Form S-8 (File No. 33-69400) under the Act, with respect to
3,250,000 shares of Common Stock.


<PAGE>
                           PART I

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                  SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS


       The documents containing the information specified in
Part I of Form S-8 (plan information and registrant
information) will be sent or given to employees as specified
by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Act.  Such documents need not be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission either as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424.  These documents,
which include the statement of availability required by Item
2 of Form S-8, and the documents incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Form S-8
(Part II hereof), taken together, constitute a prospectus that
meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Act.


                           PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                   REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.     INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

       The following documents of International Game
Technology (the "Company") filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated herein by reference: 

  (a)  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Company's fiscal
       year ended September 30, 1996;

  (b)  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Company's
       quarterly period ended December 31, 1996; and

  (c)  The description of the Company's Common Stock
       contained in its Registration Statement on Form S-3
       dated April 23, 1991, and any amendment or report
       filed for the purpose of updating such description.

       All documents subsequently filed by the Company
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the
filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into the prospectus and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.  Any
statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion
of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that
a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently
filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. 
Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part
of this Registration Statement.


ITEM 4.     DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES


ITEM 5.     INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

  The validity of the original issuance of the Common Stock
registered hereby is passed on for the Company by Brian McKay. 
Mr. McKay is Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Company and is compensated as an employee of
the Company.  Mr. McKay is the holder of options to acquire
65,957 shares of the Company's Common Stock and the Company's
Board of Directors has approved the grant to Mr. McKay of
50,000 restricted shares of the Company's Common Stock.

ITEM 6.     INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS


ITEM 7.     EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED


ITEM 8.     EXHIBITS - SEE THE ATTACHED EXHIBIT INDEX AT PAGE
            S-3.


ITEM 9.     UNDERTAKINGS

  The information and contents of Registration Statement No.
33-69400 on Form S-8, which was previously filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission by the Company, is
incorporated herein by reference.  Except for required
opinions, consents, signature pages and any information
required in this Registration Statement that is not in the
above mentioned Registration Statement, information required
by Part II to be contained in this Registration Statement is
omitted in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8.


<PAGE>


                         SIGNATURES

       Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, as amended,
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on
Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Las Vegas, State of Nevada, on
March 31, 1997.


                          INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY



                          By:  /s/ Brian McKay
                               Brian McKay
                          Its: Vice President, General
                               Counsel, Secretary and
                                    Treasurer


                      POWER OF ATTORNEY

       Each person whose signature appears below constitutes
and appoints Charles N. Mathewson, G. Thomas Baker, and Brian
McKay, or each of them individually, his or her true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full powers of
substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or
her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign
any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto
said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them individually, or
his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof.

       Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
<S>                        <C>                                  <C>
       SIGNATURE           TITLE                                DATE

/s/ Charles N. Mathewson   Chairman of the Board and Chief      March 31, 1997
Charles N. Mathewson       Executive Officer (Principal 
                           Executive Officer)

/s/ G. Thomas Baker        President, Chief Operating Officer,  March 31, 1997
G. Thomas Baker            (Principal Financial Officer and 
                           Chief Financial Officer and 
                           Principal Accounting Officer)


Albert J. Crosson          Director 
 
/s/ Wilbur K. Keating      Director                             March 26, 1997
Wilbur K. Keating

/s/ Warren L. Nelson       Director<1>                          March 31, 1997
Warren L. Nelson

/s/ Frederick B. Rentschler    Director<1>                      March 31, 1997
Frederick B. Rentschler

/s/ John J. Russell         Director                            March 31, 1997
John J. Russell

Rockwell A. Schnabel        Director  

/s/ Claudine B. Williams    Director<1>                         March 31, 1997
Claudine B. Williams

_________________________________________
<1> Member of Compensation Committee

</TABLE>

<PAGE>


                       EXHIBIT INDEX<1>


 Exhibit                                                  Sequentially
 Number           Description                             Numbered Page

4.      International Game Technology 1993 Stock Option Plan
        (Amended and Restated Effective as of August 27, 1996). 
5.      Opinion of Counsel (opinion re legality).  
23.1    Consent of Independent Accountants.   
23.2    Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5).   
24.     Power of Attorney (included in this Registration
        Statement under "Signatures").   


__________________
<1>    Each exhibit index and exhibit of Registration Statement
       No. 33-69400, which was previously filed with the Securities
       and Exchange Commission by the registrant, is incorporated
       herein by reference.
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
                           April 4, 1997.
                                  Registration No. 333-_____
                                                            

             SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                   Washington, D.C. 20549
                     ___________________

                          FORM S-8
                   REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                            UNDER
                 THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                     ___________________

                INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY
   (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                     ___________________

     Nevada                                88-0173041
(State or other jurisdiction of         (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)         Identification No.)

             5270 Neil Road, Reno, Nevada  89502
          (Address of principal executive offices)

    INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY 1993 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                  (Full title of the plan)

                         Brian McKay
  Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Treasurer
                INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY
             5270 Neil Road, Reno, Nevada  89502
           (Name and address of agent for service)
                     ___________________

Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: 
(702) 448-7777
                     ___________________

                          Copy to:
                   Joseph J. Herron, Esq.
                      O'MELVENY & MYERS
            610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1700
              Newport Beach, California  92660

              CALCULATION  OF REGISTRATION  FEE
Proposed            Proposed
                                        maximum             maximum
Title of                 Amount         offering            aggregate      Amount of
securities               to be          price               offering       registration
to be registered         registered     Per unit price      fee

Common Stock, $0.000625  2,000,000<1>   $15.9375<2>         $31,875,000<2> $9,660<2>
par value per share      shares                  
                                                             
______________
<1> This Registration Statement covers, in addition to the
    number of shares of Common Stock stated above, options to
    purchase or acquire the shares of Common Stock covered by
    the Prospectus and, pursuant to Rule 416, an additional
    indeterminate number of shares and options which by
    reason of certain events specified in the Plan may become
    subject to the Plan.

<2> Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering price, per
    share and in the aggregate, and the registration fee were
    calculated based upon the average of the high and low
    prices of the Common Stock on April 1, 1997, as reported
    on the New York Stock Exchange and published in the
    Western Edition of the Wall Street Journal.

    The Exhibit Index included in this Registration Statement
    is at page S-3.
The Prospectus which contains the information required
pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), relates to a registration statement on
Form S-8 (File No. 33-69400) under the Act, with respect to
3,250,000 shares of Common Stock.
PART I

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                  SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

       The documents containing the information specified in
Part I of Form S-8 (plan information and registrant
information) will be sent or given to employees as specified
by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Act.  Such documents need not be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission either as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424.  These documents,
which include the statement of availability required by Item
2 of Form S-8, and the documents incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Form S-8
(Part II hereof), taken together, constitute a prospectus that
meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Act.

                           PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                   REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.     INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

       The following documents of International Game
Technology (the "Company") filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated herein by reference: 

  (a)  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Company's fiscal
       year ended September 30, 1996;

  (b)  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Company's
       quarterly period ended December 31, 1996; and

  (c)  The description of the Company's Common Stock
       contained in its Registration Statement on Form S-3
       dated April 23, 1991, and any amendment or report
       filed for the purpose of updating such description.

       All documents subsequently filed by the Company
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the
filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into the prospectus and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.  Any
statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion
of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that
a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently
filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. 
Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part
of this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.     DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

ITEM 5.     INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

  The validity of the original issuance of the Common Stock
registered hereby is passed on for the Company by Brian McKay. 
Mr. McKay is Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Company and is compensated as an employee of
the Company.  Mr. McKay is the holder of options to acquire
65,957 shares of the Company's Common Stock and the Company's
Board of Directors has approved the grant to Mr. McKay of
50,000 restricted shares of the Company's Common Stock.

ITEM 6.     INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

ITEM 7.     EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

ITEM 8.     EXHIBITS - SEE THE ATTACHED EXHIBIT INDEX AT PAGE
            S-3.

ITEM 9.     UNDERTAKINGS

  The information and contents of Registration Statement No.
33-69400 on Form S-8, which was previously filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission by the Company, is
incorporated herein by reference.  Except for required
opinions, consents, signature pages and any information
required in this Registration Statement that is not in the
above mentioned Registration Statement, information required
by Part II to be contained in this Registration Statement is
omitted in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8.
SIGNATURES

       Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, as amended,
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on
Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Las Vegas, State of Nevada, on
March 31, 1997.

                          INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY

                          By:  /s/ Brian McKay
                               Brian McKay
                          Its: Vice President, General
                               Counsel, Secretary and
                                    Treasurer

                      POWER OF ATTORNEY

       Each person whose signature appears below constitutes
and appoints Charles N. Mathewson, G. Thomas Baker, and Brian
McKay, or each of them individually, his or her true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full powers of
substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or
her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign
any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto
said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them individually, or
his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof.

       Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
SIGNATURE           TITLE                                DATE

/s/ Charles N. Mathewson   Chairman of the Board and Chief      March 31, 1997
Charles N. Mathewson       Executive Officer (Principal 
                           Executive Officer)

/s/ G. Thomas Baker        President, Chief Operating Officer,  March 31, 1997
G. Thomas Baker            (Principal Financial Officer and 
                           Chief Financial Officer and 
                           Principal Accounting Officer)

Albert J. Crosson          Director 
 
/s/ Wilbur K. Keating      Director                             March 26, 1997
Wilbur K. Keating

/s/ Warren L. Nelson       Director<1>                          March 31, 1997
Warren L. Nelson

/s/ Frederick B. Rentschler    Director<1>                      March 31, 1997
Frederick B. Rentschler

/s/ John J. Russell         Director                            March 31, 1997
John J. Russell

Rockwell A. Schnabel        Director  

/s/ Claudine B. Williams    Director<1>                         March 31, 1997
Claudine B. Williams

_________________________________________
<1> Member of Compensation Committee
EXHIBIT INDEX<1>

 Exhibit                                                  Sequentially
 Number           Description                             Numbered Page

4.      International Game Technology 1993 Stock Option Plan
        (Amended and Restated Effective as of August 27, 1996). 
5.      Opinion of Counsel (opinion re legality).  
23.1    Consent of Independent Accountants.   
23.2    Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5).   
24.     Power of Attorney (included in this Registration
        Statement under "Signatures").   

__________________
<1>    Each exhibit index and exhibit of Registration Statement
       No. 33-69400, which was previously filed with the Securities
       and Exchange Commission by the registrant, is incorporated
       herein by reference.