How Online Casino Games Changed Over the Years
Casino games generate more than $90 billion every year according to Statista. In Las Vegas, Macau, and other gambling-friendly cities, casino games employ thousands of people and generate millions of dollars in revenue for local governments.
Reels, Symbols, and Graphics
When slots came out in 1994, they were nothing like they look today. For starters, the average game had simple graphics. In-game characters and symbols looked grainy and unattractive.
But players didn’t have many options. In fact, most slots featured fruits as symbols: cherries, melons, oranges, and pineapples, to name a few. Sometimes they would feature horseshoes, bars, bells, and poker card symbols.
Still, online slots in the 1990s had nearly the same types of symbols. What’s more, they usually featured three reels, a handful of pay lines and zero bonus rounds, free spins, or multipliers.