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From 19th Century Slot Machines to Modern Video Slots
Slot machines were invented towards the end of the 19th century. Since then they have come a long way. The slot machines of old were cumbersome unwieldy contraptions with wheels that could be weighed in various ways. Today's machines are sleek looking and technologically advanced. With technology has come superiority. Today, no random weightings determine outcomes. Rather, all results are equally possible and the odds are influenced by the frequency of appearance of the winning combinations on the wheels. Not only that, today's reels are often represented by the most modern of video slots.
What are Video Slots?
If a slot machine's reels are represented graphically but are not really spinning wheels, then the proper terminology should be: "video slot". This option was chosen as it was shown to be very difficult to create wheels with enough different faces for playing a good slot game. This would imply that any slots game played online should, by definition, be a video slots game. Even so, most players will avoid calling the classic 3 and 5 reel games with few pay lines "video slots". This name is usually reserved for those slot games with multiple pay lines. Such games generally include a very wide variety of options that can be spun and so justify the name fully. The graphics of video slots are also usually more sophisticated and often include small animations which are not seen with the more classic games.
More Fun with Video Slots
From the player's point of view, the main difference between classic slots and video slots is the fact that video slots are often more fun to play than the classic slots games. Video slots often have more special symbols (scatter, wild and bonus symbols), include bonus games and boast more pay lines than the classic slots. In addition, as already mentioned, the video slots often enjoy finer graphics as well. It is thus small wonder that many modern slots players prefer the sleek fun of the video slots.
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