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    My Slot History

    As I mentioned in my 1995 Wedding Anniversary post, we didn't gamble that year.
    My BFF suggested we meet in Las Vegas, Summer 1996 (she lives in Vancouver).

    I subscribed to Anthony Curtis's newsletter "Las Vegas Advisor" where it said video poker was the game with the best odds (that wasn't a table game).
    I bought a VP trainer to practice a few basic games on the pc.

    My friend and I stayed at the Mirage when it was the coolest place to stay on the Strip plus "Vegas Vacation" was being filmed at the hotel. The only
    part we saw filming was at 2am - Chevy Chase playing blackjack.

    My friend and I used the LVA coupons and signed up for players cards, collected mugs, t-shirts and freeplay up and down the Strip and even the Gold Coast.
    I remember getting the famous hotdog and beer for $1 at the Sands, across the street.
    I only played .25 video poker and would cash out the coins each time I hit a four-of-a-kind. The casino's had lots of video poker machines but few being
    played. The whole non-smoking section at the Mirage was pretty much all video poker.

    Besides single-line video poker machines, there were reel slot machines but I never played those. I didn't see any video slots or even WOF reels until
    my next visit with my husband in 1997. Then we started visiting three to four times a year and stayed at Monte Carlo until Paris opened. The casino's
    all had their own signature $1 reel slot progressives which are mostly gone now. They were the most popular reel slots and paid frequently as the jackpots hit around $1000.
    The ones at Monte Carlo were "Top Hats", MGM Grand had the "Lions Share" and "Majestic Lion" (still have those by the bank of elevators for the main tower),
    Blazing 7's ruled a whole section at the Flamingo and Caesars Roman ones were by by the entrance to the Forum Shops with photo ops with Antony and Cleopatra
    Paris had cute French bicycle themed and the baker collecting the baquettes progressive reel slots.
    Those slots would usually be set up in a rectangle with a raised platform in the middle where they had cashiers that would cash out the dollar coins.
    My husband liked to play the above between sessions of blackjack but I stuck with video poker.

    During the mid-'90's the reel slots became more interesting with bonus features on top - that's when I started playing a few reels - my favorite was
    the Horseshoe one with the cash cows (I can't remember the exact name) and it was usually in a bank with Big Bang Piggy, X Factor and the one I hated
    Jackpot Party.

    During the late '90's the nickel coin video slots were popping up everywhere and a couple of visits I played them alot - Reel "Em In was one of the first
    but I never really liked the graphics. I liked playing Lucky Leprachaun (Welcome to Rainbow Land!), Little Green Men, Texas Tea and I Dream of Jeannie
    but the downside was once you hit 1000 credits ($50), You had to wait for a hand-pay and constant filling of the nickel coin hoppers. They were all pretty much nine line machines.
    The coolest nickel slot was "I Love Lucy" - when you got the chocolate bonus, it smelled like
    chocolate! The only slot that emitted an odor, that I'm aware of. I played these at Bally's.

    The first 15-line nickel machines I saw were the Cinema Classics with Humphrey Bogart (I liked that one) Marilyn Monroe, etc..and then Money Storm, etc..My husband was
    addicted to the nickel "American Bandstand" video slot and would play those for hours.
    The first "penny" video slot I saw was "The Beverly Hillbillies" early '00's, I think. I rarely played the video slots once they all turned to penny slots and
    the TV show themed ones started disappearing.

    That's the timeline I remember but some may be "off" a bit lol

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    Interesting history for us newer slot players. Thanks.

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    Very cool Mauretania! I am impressed that you remember it all so clearly. All I remember from the early years are 3 & 5 reel quarter and dollar machines. I was terrified of all the video penny slots when they came out, and i almost had a melt down at Turning Stone the first time I went there because even their reels were video. I just wasn't ready to move on!

    And look at us now. A bunch of slot nerds :nerd:

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    Thanks for taking the time to write that up. My earliest slot memories were when i was 18 i went to the gf cousin in minneapolis and her boy cousin and i went to mystic lake. I dont remember having my socks blown off or anything by excitement but it was fun.

    Pretty sure played older igt where the reels go up and down depending on the arrows orientation

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    Thanks for sharing your slot history with us Maurentania. My first gambling experience I can recall is one of those machines where you put quarters in. It's not really a slot machine but as you feed the quarters in it spits them out and they are pushed around and if you are fortunate your quarter will end up pushing some other quarters over the edge and into the payout tray at bottom of machine. There were so many quarters hanging over ready to fall off it seemed like an safe bet so I gave it a try. I do not remember how much money I put in that machine before I finally gave up.

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    I remember going to the Paris and seeing the RWB slots were "Bleu Blanc Rouge".

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    Quote Originally Posted by seemoreroyals View Post
    Thanks for sharing your slot history with us Maurentania. My first gambling experience I can recall is one of those machines where you put quarters in. It's not really a slot machine but as you feed the quarters in it spits them out and they are pushed around and if you are fortunate your quarter will end up pushing some other quarters over the edge and into the payout tray at bottom of machine. There were so many quarters hanging over ready to fall off it seemed like an safe bet so I gave it a try. I do not remember how much money I put in that machine before I finally gave up.
    James. I used to love playing these. First time I saw them was as a kid and they had them at the local VFD carnivals. I would play them for hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seemoreroyals View Post
    Thanks for sharing your slot history with us Maurentania. My first gambling experience I can recall is one of those machines where you put quarters in. It's not really a slot machine but as you feed the quarters in it spits them out and they are pushed around and if you are fortunate your quarter will end up pushing some other quarters over the edge and into the payout tray at bottom of machine. There were so many quarters hanging over ready to fall off it seemed like an safe bet so I gave it a try. I do not remember how much money I put in that machine before I finally gave up.
    I've seen those on cruise ships, they always draw a crowd!

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    My first gambling experience was 17 years ago on my way to Zion national park! I was about 2:am my Bestie and I along with our kids got a room at the aladen she wanted me do go and gamble with her I had never gambled! I had a bad headache did not want to. She talked me into it 5 hours later I was pain free and $300 up on Cleo quarter machine. I always blame her for my habit! HHH

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    Well done! What a memory too. I started gambling in the late 70's, I traveled back then and played in the Carribean, Atlantic City, Tahoe, Dakar- Senegal, Kinshasa-Zaire. Then and into the mid 80s I played Roulette & Joker Poker. One interesting experience was playing in Zaire at a table with Europeans who looked like they came from the docks of Marsellies. I was the only woman and American, a fight broke out no one left, (too many chips on the table). I remember when the casinos in AC slots didn't have individual chairs and if you couldn't find one you had to stand. Beginning in the 90s I mainly played in Louisiana. Thanks Maurentania.

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