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January 31, 2006 on 12:22 am | In Slot machine overviews |

It can be a bit of a yawn wandering around casinos looking for your favourite game to play. Odds are that if its your favourite, others like it too. You could always find an occupied machine and inform its player that they left their headlights on, but thats only good for about five minutes of play. When they return they might just belt you with an ashtray or nearby chair.

Casinos want you to always be able to find your favourite game - its more likely you’ll donate more money, faster. New technology exists to allow you to play your favourite game on any available machine - simply sit down, navigate the touch screen and voilà, your wallet or purse will be lighter in no time.

Where is this timesaving technology? Its coming soon to a venue near you:

“that the roll-out …. should be complete by 2007″

News.com Article

As noted in the article, there are security concerns. The games are being downloaded from a remote computer to your slot machine - you really don’t know what might happen to the game whilst its in transit. The tongue in cheek response from one of the manufacturers:

“…we’re going to have bi-weekly gatherings of all the nerds”

Well that makes me feel better about security already.

There are other advantages and cost savings for casinos. They can easily change individual or groups of machines to other game types or payout levels via remote control. They keep a very close eye on which games perform and will soon weed out the weaker ones.

Are all these changes good for you, the player? Its certainly going to be more convenient to be always be able to play your favourite slot machine game, but as usual the real advantage belongs to the casino. They get more of your money.