Pong slot machines in casinos

[mailman187666]

ok so I went for a little weekend fun with a group of friends to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun out in Connecticuit. Well Foxwoods was a blast, didn't win anything but was still fun. Then we went over to Mohegan the next day and I see a big row of machine with an atari symbol and pong above them. It was a pong themed slot machine and when you get the bonus, you play a 40 second round of pong against the computer and however many points you score against them, multiplies your winnings. I had to show some of the "older" gamblers playing around me how to play it too because they'd just sit there and let the computer win and let the bonus money go down the drain. At least 3 or 4 people I had to tell the "button" was actually a knob that you turn and could win more money. They still had a hard time grasping the concept. My friends would laugh at me because they know I'm huge on videogames and they pretty much only saw me at the pong machines......and the bar ha ha. Has anybody else seen these or maybe even other videogame based slot machines in casinos? I hope they make other ones like this too because it would make it a hell of a lot more fun. Pac-man or something would be pretty fun.

[Clownzilla]

That's pretty sweet! To be honest, I'm surprised that a "skill based" slot machine is in any casino. If a person can get extremely good at Pong, they can rake in the dough. That takes away a casino's advantage. Even the machines where you stop a counter on the bonus game (Wheel Of Fortune, Monopoly, etc.), your winnings are calculated before you press the button. The button just creates an illusion of the player being in control. I can't see how they can do that on the Pong bonus game though. I will have to check that one out:)

[FantasiaWHT]

That's pretty sweet! To be honest, I'm surprised that a "skill based" slot machine is in any casino. If a person can get extremely good at Pong, they can rake in the dough. That takes away a casino's advantage. Even the machines where you stop a counter on the bonus game (Wheel Of Fortune, Monopoly, etc.), your winnings are calculated before you press the button. The button just creates an illusion of the player being in control. I can't see how they can do that on the Pong bonus game though. I will have to check that one out:)

The same way that casinos still make money even if you play the best you possibly can at Blackjack - they make sure that the MOST a person can possibly make (over time) is still less than what the casino takes in. Actually, to be more accurate, the MOST that EVERYONE playing can make over time is still less than what the casino takes in.

[mailman187666]

That's pretty sweet! To be honest, I'm surprised that a "skill based" slot machine is in any casino. If a person can get extremely good at Pong, they can rake in the dough. That takes away a casino's advantage. Even the machines where you stop a counter on the bonus game (Wheel Of Fortune, Monopoly, etc.), your winnings are calculated before you press the button. The button just creates an illusion of the player being in control. I can't see how they can do that on the Pong bonus game though. I will have to check that one out:)

I did happen to notice that its a little bit harder to sneak the ball past the computer even at high speeds. The skill based game is only there IF you get a certain 3 matching pong symbols. You could pay out $30+ without getting to play the bonus game, every time I saw the bonus game won, it only really added about $4 or so to that pull on the machine. Not to mention you really only get 40 seconds of the game to play so you can only multiply your money by so much. Still one I'd rather play than any other generic slot with no bonus games to play.

[Clownzilla]

Well, if it were timed then I could see the casino keeping their advantage. No matter how good a person got, they could only hit the ball X amount of times. I also looked online after I read this post and found out that Bally plans on releasing other Atari based slot machines such as Breakout, Astroids, Centipede, etc.. That will make loosing my money that much more fun:) All I need now is a Super Mario Bros. slot machine, and I will be ecstatic.

[dave2236]

they did do a modern Pac-Man machine a couple of years ago. I played them at a casino in upper Michigan. They only had them for about 6 months then they were gone. I tried to find a pic, but the only thing I could find online was this article.

http://ir.wms.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=76037&p=irol-aboutNewsArticle&ID=299741&highlight=pac