Slot machines, the evolution of the Casino King

The first slot machine was created in 1887 and launched on the market by the German engineer Charles August Fey in California. It was incredibly advanced for a 19th century machine. It had three cylindrical reels with four symbols. Money was inserted through a coin-shaped drawer and a hand lever served to activate the gaming mechanism. The maximum amount that players could win at that time was half a dollar. This automatic game was at that time an alternative to card games such as poker, so more machines of this type began to appear on the market

It was in 1891 that Sittman and Pitt, two successful New York entrepreneurs, began to manufacture another type of slot machine. They were machines that offered other types of prizes such as cigarettes or drinks in the bars where they were located. They had five reels with 50 poker cards and prizes were awarded when players had good pokerhands. Some cards functioned as prize multipliers and looked like the video poker slots we see today.

Herbert Mills, a Chicago manufacturer began in 1908 to produce ''Operator Bell'' machines. The game mechanism was very similar to the Liberty Bell. In this new machine, the prizes were gums, which is the reason why the reels showed the famous fruit symbols that we see today in online slots

Money Honey is the first electronic slot machine. It was created in 1963 by the company Bally Technologies. This machine had a side lever, and although it was not very important to casino players, it was a popular machine. The maximum possible price was 500 coins.