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BACKGROUND - SLOTS MACHINES HISTORY
 A
man with a clear and precise vision by the name of Charles Fey, started creating slot machines back in 1894. By 1898, in his San Francisco workshop, he
invented many different forms of coin operated gaming machines. The one machine that stands out in history is the Liberty Bell. This was a simple 3
reel device containing the suits we find in current deck of cards and a symbol of the Liberty Bell.
This slot machine is considered to be icon of all modern slot machines. Its simple design continues to be used in mechanical gaming slots to this day.
The basic devices with 3 reels containing only 20 symbols have blossomed into microprocessor-controlled slot machines with up to 5 different reels that
have hundreds of symbols.
 During
the 1930's, slot machines began to spread across the US. In the late 1940's, a now infamous Bugsy Siegel put these machines in his Flamingo Hilton
hotel in Vegas. In the beginning, they were there merely to entertain the women who came with their high rolling men. As revenue from the slot machines
started passing revenue posted from table games, things quickly changed and these machines were regarded in a completely different manner. By the mid
1980's, slot machines and table games were on the same level. Then in the 1990’s slots took over as the biggest money maker.
One of the main reasons slot machines are so popular, is because players can make their own pace when playing. Players don’t need to posses any major
skill to play them either. These machines come in any different theme you can just about imagine, too.
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