Background information on gambling machines

The first “one handed bandit” was designed in 1887 by Charles Fey from San Francisco, USA, who developed a simple, automatic gambling mechanism with the possibility of counting the prize. But a few years before that, Sittman and Pitt from Brooklyn, USA had developed a gambling machine, which was considered as the precursor of the modern slots. It had five wheels and 50 cards in total; the game was based on poker. This machine was rather popular, so there hardly was a bar in the city that had no gambling machines. But the very first machine had problems with prizes; the prizes were paid by the owner of the establishment. The jackpot in this kind of machines was taken from the coins accumulated inside the machine, because of their weight they were coming out from the machine. And many a man got jerry fast, that they could receive money just by hitting the slot machine.

For this reason those machines didn’t become popular soon as expected. Charles Fey came to help the industry, he invented the prototype of the modern games, and the first machine was named by him “Liberty Bell”. The success of this machine allowed him to open his own gambling machine factory already in 1896. In Russia the history of such games goes back to the 80’s of the last century, when by an act of the soviet government it was permitted to establish the first gambling club in Moscow. In English speaking countries gambling machines are usually called slots, but because all these terms came to Russia from America, the name was quickly attached to the Russian consumer. The real boom in the gambling industry falls into 2002, when getting a permission to construct a casino was very simple and easy. Since 2002 begins dynamic construction of gambling clubs throughout Russia. Thanks to internet advance gambling machine emulators (software installed on the computer which emulates the real gambling machines) gained popularity. Every internet user has the possibility to download emulators. The main strategy in this game is player’s luck!