[post_page_title]Back in the old days[/post_page_title]
Of course, the “one-armed bandits” of old malfunctioned every now and again too. The difference was in the scope. Today, machines are incredibly complex and have jackpots of millions of dollars.
The old slot machines, meanwhile, used randomly spinning drums that almost never malfunctioned and were very simple, technologically speaking. They also rarely paid more than 100 times the initial bet. Early electromechanical machines, meanwhile, were still unsophisticated and had low payouts. Even if one did malfunction, the payout was so low that it wasn’t worth fretting over.
