With the help of computer technology, such slot machines offer a wide range of additional fascinating features that increase interest in the game.
These machines often have more than 5 lines that can have unusual layouts.
Video slots have computer displays, not mechanical reels. Slots are also named fruit machines, due to the fact that traditional symbols for slot machines were images of fruits, cherries, bells, and the number “7”. Moreover, people were so addicted to this game that lost their money quickly as if a bandit had stolen it. Due to some specific features, these machines got different names.įor example, it is known as one-armed bandits, because early mechanical machines had large mechanical levers affixed to the sides of it. It was a machine that had a mechanical screen displaying usually three reels with 1-3-5 paylines. Mechanical slots are the classic machines that we are used to seeing in real casinos. Today slots can be divided into two types: mechanical and video.