Classic and Video Slots

Having the desire and time you can find over a thousand kinds of slots online. Among them we can find a unique game, and just find copies which have only different images (as in one of the bingo-rooms, we found more than a dozen machines, which actually differed only in pictures and the title, but the pay tables and other game features were totally alike) . Fortunately, in reputable casinos slots are still different. But, of course, they also have much in common.

It is possible to divide Slot machines concerning different characteristics, but the most fundamental division, perhaps is the classic slots and the video slots. It is the old classic slots can be rightly called “one-armed bandit”, since to play them players had to use lever which is very much like a raised up hand on the right side of the machine. Previously, these slots were mechanical, they had three reels, started spinning after pulling the lever, and then stopped spinning in turn. Time passed, slots became automatic the spinning became possible with the help of a button, although there are still machines with the lever, but rather as an attribute. The classic slots usually have three reels and from one to five paylines. The game may have “wild” symbols, including the multiplier. There are also games with progressive jackpots. As a rule there are no Bonus games in classic slots.

With the development of electronic technology video slots become more and more popular.  Video slots are essentially a new generation of gaming machines. They have no real mechanical reels, but have the screen (which gave the name “Video”). Typically, video slots have not three reels, but five (very rarely you can find slots with seven or four reels). Each of the “reels” simultaneously display three symbols (and in recent versions five). Actually we receive the playing field with 3 x 5 values, which can have from 9 to 50 paylines (and on the field of 5×5 up to 100 lines). If to win in the classic slots, it is necessary 3 similar symbols line up on all three reels, in the video – slots you may get a payout if 2 or 3 symbols line up successively from the first reel. The principle is this: the more symbols will line up in a row on the active pay line – the higher the payout. And sometimes the rules suggest that even it is not necessary that the characters are arranged on one line.

Clearly, as it happens with everything that exists in our world a classic slot machine has its own lifetime and popularity and, in all probability – their time slowly but surely is coming to an end. But the new video slots, by contrast, enjoy increasing popularity at the expense of increasing the quality of graphics and rich gaming experience. Industry does not stand still, constantly improving and offering its admirers more new versions of games.

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