Palmerpath asked:
On my recent trip to Vegas I noticed that nearly all the slot machines I saw were bill-or-credit slip operated, and only a minority still had pull handles.
I miss the older style slots, the pull of the handle and the clash of coins in the payout trays—have they all gone away?
Note—I know that some of the video poker games still have coin slots, but I’m talking about the traditional slot machines.
Progress is all very well, but we’re talking iconic Vegas memories here, folks.
Anyone know?
Gail
On my recent trip to Vegas I noticed that nearly all the slot machines I saw were bill-or-credit slip operated, and only a minority still had pull handles.
I miss the older style slots, the pull of the handle and the clash of coins in the payout trays—have they all gone away?
Note—I know that some of the video poker games still have coin slots, but I’m talking about the traditional slot machines.
Progress is all very well, but we’re talking iconic Vegas memories here, folks.
Anyone know?
Gail
Tags: Coin Slots, Games Slots, Memories
Last time I was in Vegas (feb 08) the only place I saw coin operated machines was downtown I did not see a single one on the Strip.
They keep a few downtown. They don’t want to alienate the traditional customers. Try the oldest casino in Vegas, “El Cortez” between 6th and 7th..
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Actually a lot of people like the coins. They want to feel like they won something of heft. The problem is that casino costs go down considerably once they’ve paid off the new TITO machines. You don’t have to manhandle all that weight, you don’t waste time feeding all the quarters back into the machines, people tend to bet more with the tickets, and the machinery is a lot easier to repair. The money room is not crowded with all those crates of quarters. Plus some people take the tickets home thinking they will return, and then they lose the tickets.
When I was there in June I didn’t see coin operated slots on the Strip. I can’t speak for downtown because I didn’t really play there that much.
The ticket-in-ticket-out saves having to pay for change girls and with the younger generation of gamblers who are into video games the handle has gone the way of the dodo bird
You can still find a few casinos on Strip that accept coin but very few