Topic: Amazing Vintage Slot Machines - page 2. (Read 427 times)

These machines are the living stereotype of casinos. Having one of these as decoration in a bar or even as a function would be very interesting. Are these functional models still sold? Or will we only get it from collectors?

$500 in the 80s seemed to be quite expensive, but now the price tag for a vintage slot machine like this is around $3k and it's an antique that won't be owned easily.
For collectors, the older the item, the more expensive it will be.

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Thanks for the video, I saw the video and he tried to conquer the slot machine to give him the jackpot, after 127 days he got it.
How much money it takes just to hit the jackpot, but of course it will be different for each slot machine.

Big unpaid winnings are a disaster for casinos, they do not think that the machine will issue too big a prize, this is indeed a complete bug and not what they arranged.
An audit is only a sign that the machine is safe and will make good money for the casino, of course it will also provide profits for some players but will not be as big as when the machine crashes.

You got it right! Especially if you really want to play just for your own happiness if you have spare time, this is kind of like a fidget toy for an adults like us! I also just wondered about these vintage vendo slot machines, were these types manipulated or cheated? because nowadays, we're high-tech and we're doing it online just like tapping the button on the screen while the vintage one, it's really based on you on how strong you pulling the slot. I just thought if you look at the pictures, when you open the back side of the vendo, you can move the system itself.

Everyone that has played on an online casino has had this thought run in their mind, and I guess if it has no reputation to lose they can indeed manipulate these games, but then again most casinos don't really have full control of these games , which means that the casino doesn't get the heat because most of our online casinos use third party game providers...unless it's an in-house casino game.

Actually these were a nuisance if you ask me, and this is based on many court cases I have seen online over unpaid winnings as a result of a faulty slot machine and casino refusing to honour their dues...but all in all like @chaser15 said..these were or still get audited to ensure fair game play but we all know who has the last say

Here's a guy playing on this and hitting a jackpot The machine is much smaller than I'd expect it to be.
And here's a guy showing how it works

I remember seeing a casino with old slot machines 30 years ago. They were making a lot of noise and you could hear the money rolling in there and falling out as people were winning. Newer machines tried to recreate this noise from speakers but it wasn't the same. Old casinos with these vintage slots had a certain vibe that you won't be able to experience again. That's a very similar feeling to what old cinemas used to be back in the day where the film was physical and you could hear it rolling if you sat in the back.

There’s some people selling slot machine on Facebook marketplace but all of them is already modified to adapt the new looks of slot machine in the casino. I still don’t find a legit vintage slot machine but I already have a guy looking for this online for me.


Men, this is the ultimate gem! I’m search for this video game too but I don’t know what’s the specific name I will use to search but this is the first backyard gambling that became popular in my country when I was a child.

Here in my neighborhood I've seen a lot of slot machines but as I don't play on them and I've never played on a slot machine, so I've never gotten very close to any of those slot machines that are in my neighborhood, so I don't know exactly how they are. they look similar, I just remember that they have a lot of red light, I don't realize if because they have red lights on, they are electronic machines, so they must have some type of software, now that I see this post I started to ask myself: if The government of my country has prohibited those slot machines that are in my neighborhood from being operated outside of casinos. So who inspects the code to determine whether it is demonstrably fair?

I assume that no one from my country's government inspects these illegal machines that are in my neighborhood, so they must be manipulated machines and many people in my neighborhood play on them and are probably losing money, because whenever I go to the bank I have seen many people playing on those slot machines that are in my neighborhood and then they start fighting because one of them jumped the line because there are a lot of people who want to play and the machines are few, so they fight to be the first to play. So I wonder how inspections are carried out on these Vintage Slot Machines? Do the government guys dismantling every machine to see if it is demonstrably fair?

Whether the machine is in the hands of a legal or an illegal establishment doesn't change the fact that there must be some sort of a level adjustment done on the working mechanism of the machine to making sure as a casino they do have an edge over the gambler. It doesn't and has never been a 50/50 thing.

The only difference I will establish here between that of a legal and illegal casinos is that as an establishment that is legal they will be be very sensitive to the laws guiding their operation under such jurisdiction therefore adjusting the machine to a very minimal level that it's hard to notice but those of illegal jurisdiction they don't give a damn the adjustment can be glaring to a gambler just by the results they are getting from the machine's.

The commonplace am trying to fall on here is that no matter how legal a casino might operate it can never give an equal hedge to the gambler with itself. There will always be a mark of differentiation.

Meh, most vintage slot machines follow the same design language, and unless you're a moldbreaking manufacturer who always do things in his own way and not through cookie-cutter means (in which case why the hell are you doing that?) There's really nothing to be so shocked and surprised about the technology of a vintage slot machine. Matter of fact, these crank slots are often susceptible to tampering by its very own players, to tip the odds in their favor for the most part, so for me, it's still great that we have these digital slot machines that leave no room for error.

Machines like these are only really good for collection and nothing else, plus points if they are still functional but they don't really need to be. If it's from a well-known manufacturer it could shell you out a couple thousand dollars depending on the condition, but if it's from a lesser-known manufacturer, prepare to only get a couple hundred from it.

Slot machines of the past are cool and all but there's a reason why we have digital variants that are more liked by the casino and the player. It's time we stop making these and instead acquire these for collection purposes only.

Probability, a slot machine, or this kind of gambling game that relies on probability—yes, you need luck in order to be in the probability of winning—but do mind that winning in a slot machine relies on probability. Yes, you need luck in order to have a high probability of winning, but do keep in mind that winning in a slot machine is not easy, but it is fun and addictive. Well, it's because of how interesting it is and how calm and relaxed you can be. But yeah, this kind of machine has a probability mechanism where there's a certain play or spin you could do before the winning match could align, and believe me, it will take a lot of tries or attempts in order to attain that probability. In terms of online slot machines, I don't play that because it is also based on probability, as the programme may be doing random patterns, but I still can't stop thinking that it can be programmemed to show the winning pattern less than it should be. Of course, who's businessman will make a gambling game online that a player could win easily, right?.

This is an interesting take to buy a physical slot machine to reduce gsmbling spending.

It's like a fidget toy to cut cigarettes and smoking hehe. Of you are just used to the motion and the habit of the spins then it's a good buy and more people should consider this idea. I think it would work with many people because the habit and passing time is important to them generally. But a big issue here is also that maybe someone will use it till very bored with it and might want to go back to the real thing. Or maybe after you are bored with it you just use it as a paperweight and be done with gambling entirely. Which is a good outcome also.

I have also felt much curiosity and enthusiasm for those old slots machines. Since I was a child I have always wanted to own one of those, but they are rather difficult to find here in my country, nowadays with some luck one can only get some of the modern ones which are electronic.
In my opinion, one of the biggest challenges for engineers, besides the system to handle the coins within the machine, was the way to guarantee there was enough entropy within the mechanical system for it to be considered to be gambling and nobody would realize there was some way to find a pattern for their own benefit. You know.

Nowadays and thanks to the technology we all have available, it is rather easy to generate entropy using electronic means, anyone of us could get a true random number generator if we needed to, but it is a completely different thing to try to generate random numbers using a lever, springs and gears.

One of these days, when I have got some spare time, I will try to find an explanatory video on how those slots machines actually managed to get enough entropy to satisfy the standards of regulators. 

This slot is a pure mechanical slot, and I am not old enough to remember such slots, and maybe there were none in my country... at least I never saw anything similar to this one, except on some videos (Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, and similar).

After a short search, I found this image, these kinds of slots we had here, and it looks similar to slots I was playing in the '90s.



There was a key (the owner had it) and he could set up "the house edge" and how much money it would give with that key. I have watched the owner do it several times for slot and poker machines.

It would probably be fun to own one but I don't think will have the same effect as playing a slot machine where you are risking money and has a chance of winning, I mean the thrill risking your money and wanting to profit from gambling is one of the main reason why a lot of gamblers gamble.

Owning that will probably be fun as you don't have to go somewhere else and you won't be spending any amount of money from there. And if you're just for it to have fun then it's worth it to own it. I think that it's got some IC chip inside and the algorithm of it was already programmed and that's already possible even before to make the favor go into the owner's hand.

It means that whoever plays it are unlikely to win or if they do, they're only going to win some few amounts. Well, what I like with the life before was that there is no pressure, you gamble and you're still fine as you won't be suffering a lot because the places were just chill and prolly the same with the people.

I guess there were some addicted slot gamblers already before and until now, many does suffer with that problem that only few able to survive with it based on their own ways of getting rid of it.

There is nothing cannot be manipulated. It doesn't matter if it is analogy or digital, modern or vintage. Slots can be manipulated by dishonest owners for personal profit. There are two way which I learned that vintage slot machines are manipulated. One way is that they put a plug on the reel stop cog so the stop arm could never land on a particular symbol. Another way is that some of them won't let you win until a certain number of rolls are made.

$0.05 per spin and so much to win will get someone addicted to this game.
It would be a gem to find one. They all landed in a junkyard somewhere and rotten. If people during that time thought that it would be a thing for the museum 50 years later, they would have kept them and sold them to Harrisons for thousands.

Pony race machines back in the 90s were the craze back then. People love it, these slot and race machines do have patterns I guess. 

That's beautiful, thank you for sharing this video here with us. But I don't understand with such archaic mecanisms how they could be prefectly (or at least reasonably) random? Players could certainly be able to find some loopholes and patterns into these machines. So I don't know if the game was more risky for the house that is to say the owner of the slot machine or for the player at the end. Anyway it should be fun to see, listen and touch such old gambling machines.

This is a gem. I’m dreaming having a machine like this now because I grew up on a neighborhood that has an illegal gambling den with this kind of vintage slot machine while it brings back my good old days when I’m having a penny and risk it on that stupid machine just to multiply it which never happened back then.

I watch a video from Pawnstar episode that featured vintage wooden slot machine. I’m always fascinated on this vintage collection but sadly it’s very hard to find one now since this kind of machine is frequently being destroyed since it’s illegal back then here in my country.

I will post some picture if ever I landed to purchase one in my country.

Well, that slot machine actually looks amazing for sure the way it rotates and stops is just great seeing those machine parts. I mean this is still used in casinos right so I have to assume that there are some ways where the casino is always going to end up making money at some point, It is difficult to think about these things for sure compared to right now which is online gambling just thinking about it, it can easily be rig at some point where the roulette there could somehow end up not winning anything at a certain time, probably it is going to lose 10times then win 3 times something like that, we that way the casino is already going to make a profit and at the same time, there are people who are winning this slot machines. I could easily imagine that it could be the case here even though it might be an old machine, I mean it might be put luck as well since there was actually a higher chance for the gambler to win since getting that reel jackpot is going to be difficult anyway. Probably it is just a matter of how many players are actually going to use it, but looking at these machines they are just very attractive to gamblers, I don't know if it was just me but it was kinda fun playing slot machines with just looking at it, its colorful, it's a nice piece of machinery.