Despite online casinos popularity and 24/7 availability, and even with the wide variety of advanced, high paying online slot games, some people prefer to play slots at the old-style, coin-operated slot machines in brick and mortar casinos. Those slots conservatives, who refuse to substitute the sound of rattling coins with its digital imitations (and won’t even settle for paper tickets) can find what they want in at least two Las Vegas casinos.

The Eastside Cannery Casino & Hotel and the Four Queens Hotel are both mentioned at the Casino City Time recent review of this retro gambling trend – the coin-operated slot machines. The Eastside Cannery Casino, for example, had dedicated an entire room in the favor of its nostalgic patrons. The classic slot machine room, which offers more than 50 different slot games with mass presence to poker games, has been enjoying an ever increasing popularity, admitted the slots operations’ director, Mr. Albert Orosco.

The Four Queens Hotel classic slots room is also giving its casino patrons something to remember. Instead of the one-time paper tickets, slots players get added value in the form of collectible coins. Those silver tokens come in different series and can be exchanged with paper ticket, traded for higher-valued coins, or be sold on eBay.

The first coin-operated machines were available already in the 1890, rewarding the winner with chewing gums or similar prizes. The first slot machine with automatic payouts was introduced to Las Vegas casinos only in1963, not long before the introduction of video slot games. Called “Money Honey” and developed by Bally Gaming Corporation, the slot machine’s highest prize was a sack of 500 coins. The classic slot machines available today in Las Vegas casinos were all produced in the 1990s, and are no longer produced.

However, the classic slot machines’ future does not seem promising. According to the spokesperson of the leading manufacturer of the machines, Boyd Gaming Corporation, the current demand for coin-operated slot machine does not justify a production of additional slot games.