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There’s Still Hope in Vegas For Coin Fans

As we say often here at SlotsData.com, there are few creatures on Earth as superstitious and compulsive as Homo Slotfanicus. Consummate fruit machine players have been known to harbor any number of crazy and deeply-ingrained preferences about the conditions of their slot machine play, ranging from time of day to position on the casino gaming floor and coin temperature. In this day of modern technology, many pokies have replaced the coin-operated mechanisms of yore with a fancy, coinless operation that instead relies on tickets and credits. Lots of players are not fans, and will go to great lengths to seek out the devices that still operate on coins.

These diehards would have a heart attack if they knew that all the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have converted to coinless slot machines. Sin City is, of course, the epicenter of gambling in the United States of America, and is home to virtually as many slot games as there are stars in the sky. It’s a major blow to consider that the glitziest and most glamorous of Vegas gambling parlors, the Strip casinos, no longer accept good, old-fashioned coins.

Don’t be completely discouraged. Apparently, many of the older casinos in Vegas have not completely renounced the glory days of coin-operated slots. The Old Downtown district, in particular, is still home to many such beauties. Of course, you won’t find many frill in these establishments (some may be kind of creepy!), but you can play coins to your heart’s content. It’s a trade off, but one that we suspect many set-in-their-ways gamers will welcome.

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