The payback percentage for a slot machine is engineered to be predictable over the very long run – we’re talking hundreds of thousands, if not millions of spins. Over a shorter period ...

Today’s slot machine artists also can employ new technologies in creating machines. For example, designers and artists now create illustrations and designs on computers.

The most dramatic changes came after the mid-2000s, when rapid advances in technology sparked a revolution in slot machine design and functionality. This ushered in the modern era of networked ...

Unless you visit casinos regularly, the image of a slot machine that immediately comes to mind is likely still of the old model: the one where you yank a lever, cherries line up and coins spill ...

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International Gaming Technology (NYSE: IGT) ($40.90) is the world's leading slot machine manufacturer. In addition to basic slot machine design and sales, the company generates more than half of ...

But it’s the way they dish out rewards that really seals the deal, and slot machine makers learned these invisible design elements from basic psychology. B.F. Skinner’s famous study on reward ...

Robert Manz was the designer of some of the most successful slot machine games in history — Blazing 7s and the Black and White slot series. He died in a traffic accident in Las Vegas over the ...