Here at Jackpot Capital, slots are still the most popular game we offer. We have about 200 slots on offer and we add at least one every month. Modern digital slots have amazing graphics, great animation, many paylines, at least five reels and sometimes more, various configurations of the reels, crazy ways the wild symbols help you win, scatter symbols that send you to the free spins bonus rounds, and jackpots, jackpots, jackpots!
The Mechanical Slots of Yore are Passe
The first slot machines, and all slot machines for several decades after that, were mechanical devices. You had to pull the arm to get the reels going. There were three reels and the symbols were the same no matter where you were playing the slot.
There are a Lot of Games That are Older Than Slots
People have been playing games for millennia. Playing games is a main aspect of human life. We might say that some animals also play games as we see in young pups be they dogs, bears, lions, or many other animals. In the animal world, males tend to become very competitive as they grow.
Competition is in Our Code
Humans also become competitive but we never lose the pleasure we got as kids when we played games. The difference is the quality of the games adults play. Whereas kids play Hide and Seek or Tag, adults play many games including casino games and the top casino game is slots.
Modern Slots Are All the Same and All Different
Slots at land-based casinos are the same as slots at Jackpot Capital and all online casinos. They are digital, not mechanical. They have themes with varying symbols and characters. While the digital world cannot fully replicate the favorite kids’ games, it has a tremendous amount of flexibility to create a gaming experience for adults that many people will want to come back to often.
Banana Jones Does Replicate a Favorite Kids’ Game!
Just as an aside, our wildly popular game Banana Jones does use the motif of Chutes and Ladders as Banana Jones seeks to recover the crystal banana from the castle where it is being kept. The chutes become snakes and the ladders become vines. Gamers love this specific game and it could be that the replication of a kids’ game has a big part to do with that.
The Themes in Slots Make Them All Different
Where the original slots were all the same, today’s slots have themes that make them all different. It poses quite a challenge to game providers to develop yet another slot about ancient Egypt and make it interesting and captivating so gamers will come back to it again and again.
Our exclusive game provider, Spinlogic, has teams working on slots that may still be a few months away from making their debut. They work out to upcoming themes and then the teams get to work brainstorming how to develop the theme.
It is a testament to the creative juices that permeate the offices of SpinLogic that they can deliver a new slot every month.
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When a Slot Machine Was the New Game in Town
A man named Charles Fey invented the slot machine only in the last decades of the 19th century. There is no absolutely clear date for the invention. Charles Fey was known as a man who tinkered with machines so some say that he invented a prototype of the slot machine in 1887 and others say that the slot machine made its debut only in 1895.
Regardless of when the slot machine became available to players, Congress put a damper on the gambling side of slots by passing a law making it illegal for a machine to award cash prizes.
Candy Replaces Money
A Chicago man named Herbert Mills concocted a way for slot machines to award candy. The symbols became the colors of the candies won by the lucky players.
The candy slots became prominent in Chicago during the first decades of the 20th century.
1964 Was a Big Year for Two Reasons
First, the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, changing the face of rock and roll forever and issuing in the British Invasion of rock bands from Great Britain. The second watershed development in 1964 was the appearance of a non-mechanical slot machine!
Twelve years later, in 1976, a screen was added to a slot machine in Las Vegas. This was a revolutionary innovation at the time. It is de rigueur today but was a thing of amazement only as recently as 1976.
By now all slots have a screen. Soon after the introduction of the screen, the first progressive slot was introduced.
How Progressive Jackpots Work
We mentioned jackpots above. Most jackpots are embedded in the slot itself. Some have three jackpots while some have four. In any case, the lower jackpot pays very modestly and no one will get rich quick winning the upper jackpot of this sort.
Not so with a progressive jackpot. No online casino has the international reach that a game provider has so the game providers sponsor all big progressive jackpots. They shave a small amount, perhaps only a single penny, from every bet and because there might be a million people playing for the jackpot at the same time, the jackpot itself grows very fast.
We feel that we should point out that in order to qualify to win the big progressive jackpot, you have to bet the maximum on the winning payline. That makes playing progressive jackpot slots somewhat expensive and points to the need to be careful how you spend your online casino gaming budget.
Online Casinos Began in 1994
Before the start of online casino gaming, slots had almost all gone digital. Players at land-based casinos played them at terminals. A random number generator created the “numbers” which, in the case of slots, were symbols and characters.
The Benefits of Playing Slots Online
Casino gamers discovered three very happy phenomena when online casinos came along. First, online casinos have unlimited space, as far as we know. That means that they can carry an unlimited number of slots. It also meant that online casinos did not have to take out older terminals to make room for newer slots. This still happens at land-based casinos as they have to use every inch of available space.
The next phenomenon new online casino gamers found out quickly is that there is no waiting at an online casino. There might be some waiting at land-based casinos since even the most popular slot has only a few terminals. A million gamers can play the same slot at the same time at Jackpot Capital Casino!
Finally, astute gamers soon discovered that the random number generator in slots is calibrated in the factory to return about 97% of all money bet back to players at Jackpot Capital Casino and at all reputable online casinos while it is calibrated to return around 80% at land-based casinos and often even less.
Modern Slots Thrive on Graphics and Animation
Modern digital slots have great graphics that “tell a story” befitting the theme of slots. Animation is even more important in the way the wild symbols create wins. Today’s slots have sticky wilds, stacked wilds, cascading reels, moving wilds, expanding wilds, and exploding wilds.
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