When you’re playing online on sites like Casino Betfair and you’ve got such a huge selection of slot games on offer, it can be difficult to remember that, out of all the games you get in the casino, slots is one of the youngest.

It’s only a decade or two over 100 years old, while most of the popular casino games are at least 300+! More than that, it’s also been through a lot of changes and evolution over the course of its life.

Before you had the glossy, high tech machines you see nowadays, you have to start with the mechanical machines of old, born in the late 1800s. Starting with the Horseshoe Slot machine and leading into the Liberty Bell, these machines were fully mechanical and didn’t have the random number generators of modern slots.

It wasn’t until the 1970s that slot machines began using computers to help keep numbers randomised and introduced the wider variety of options you see nowadays including bonuses, multi-lane wins and the high-quality screens.

Back in the old days, the spinning reels were physical drums spun by a mechanism. Nowadays, you don’t even need to be in a casino, you get the same spin and the same RNG program playing at home online!