In recent years, slot machine sounds have evolved with the tastes of players. According to Sherri Francis, Slot Operations Manager at OLG Casino Brantford, today’s machines increasingly incorporate music, dialogue and sound-effects licensed from a vast spectrum of TV and film franchises, including everything from The Walking Dead to the Wheel.
Some classic slots are trulyclassic. They look old school and they are old school. In these slots, you won’t find state-of-the-art graphics and sound effects. They just work good, bring you money from time to time and remind you of the good old days when we all used.

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Megabucks by IGT. The mother of all progressive slot games, Megabucks was first released in 1986.

For several reasons, slot machines seem to hold a special place in hearts of many casino gambling enthusiasts. To begin with, many casual players consider the slots to be the perfect place to test the proverbial waters. You can play alone, shielded from the pressure-packed environment of the table game pit where dealers and fellow gamblers are watching your every move. And while most Las Vegas table games like blackjack, roulette, and craps require a minimum wager of $5, slot machines can typically be played for $0.25 per spin – or even lower on the penny slots.

But the main draw which attracts millions of recreational players to take their shot at the slots is clearly the jackpot. Whereas a blackjack sharp must put in hours of work each day, grinding out hundreds of hands hoping to squeeze out a profit, slot players know they can win massive six-, seven-, and even eight-figure scores when the reels align just right. Of course, jackpot payouts occur far less frequently than a well-timed double down, but the idea of risking just a few coins on the off chance to haul in a truly life-changing reward is quintessentially American.

As a matter of fact, the slot machine itself fits that bill to a tee…

The first slot machine, as we know them today anyhow, was invented way back in 1895 by Charles Fey – who was originally born in Bavaria as August Fey. After emigrating to the United States as a young man, the aspiring inventor wound up settling in San Francisco, where he sought to improve on existing slots of the day.

At the time, the most prevalent automated gambling device was the “Horseshoe Machine” pioneered by Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Schultze in 1893. Schultze’s slot machine was the first to provide an automatic payout, but the Horseshoe was designed to dispense tickets or tokens which players could then redeem for prizes.

Fey recognized that gamblers would prefer a direct cash payout instead, so he designed his “Liberty Bell” slot machine to spit out the very same coins players used to place their bets. Just like that, Fey introduced the first coin-to-coin slot game, revolutionizing the nascent American gambling industry in the process.

Fey’s concept for the Liberty Bell slot was deceptively simple. After depositing a coin and pulling the level, players watched three reels outfitted with basic symbols – diamonds, spades, hearts, horseshoes, and liberty bells – revolve before coming to rest at random. When the three reels lined up to show matching symbols across the single horizontal payline, the lucky player collected one of five prizes up to the “jackpot” of $0.50. It’s been more than 100 years since happy gamblers put their first spins in on the Liberty Bell slot, and naturally, the game has evolved by leaps and bounds since then.

The modern crop of video slots incorporates sound effects and animated clips to spice up the onscreen action. In addition to basic payline payouts, players can also win free spins or trigger bonus rounds where larger prizes await. Speaking of those paylines, 21st century slots are built around an ever increasing selection of paylines, with the standard being 25 or 30 and many games upping the ante to 50 or 100 ways to win. And thanks to the introduction of wide-area progressive jackpots in the 1980s, slot enthusiasts today can try their luck with millions of dollars on the line. All things considered, a gambler of Fey’s vintage would hardly recognize a slot machine pit within a modern casino.

Despite all of these developments, the world of slot machines is tinged with the unmistakable taste of nostalgia. Many players – even relative youngsters accustomed to casinos resembling a video game arcade – find themselves drawn towards “old school” slots that fall in line with Fey’s famous Liberty Bell machine.

On that note, check out the list below to learn more about three old school slot machines that players everywhere still love to play:

1 – Megabucks by IGT

The mother of all progressive slot games, Megabucks was first released in 1986 by International Game Technology (IGT). At first glance, Megabucks is a slot machine that would seem to make Fey proud. Eschewing multiple paylines, video clips, and other bells and whistles Megabucks is a basic three-reel game using just a single payline. For a hefty price of $3 per spin – technically $1 but with a $3 minimum in order to qualify for the jackpot – players cause classic symbols like the 7 and cherry, along with single-, double-, and triple BARs to revolve around the reels.

But it’s the Golden Eagle Megabucks logo symbol that everybody is hoping to hit. If you can line three Golden Eagle logos up along the payline – no small feat at an absurd 1 in 49,836,032 win rate – Megabucks triggers its massive multi-million dollar progressive jackpot. When it first hit casino floors back in 1986, the Megabucks game transformed how slot machines played forever afterward. Before then, a machine’s topline jackpot amount was limited based on how many bets had been previously placed. In other words, when you sat down to spin a slot, the most you could win on a jackpot was equal to the amount of coins deposited by losing players.

As such, a game played with quarters might be capable of dispensing $5,000 for its jackpot at most. But when Megabucks arrived on the scene, gamblers suddenly had a ridiculous $10 million base jackpot pool to shoot for. That’s the amount IGT seeds its Megabucks jackpot with, and it’s all thanks to an innovation known as the wide area progressive network.

Rather than limit a game’s jackpot total to coins deposited on a particular machine, wide area progressive networks link multiple machines together. In the case of Megabucks, machines located in various casinos throughout Las Vegas, Reno, and the rest of Nevada were all linked with one another. Every time a player put in $3 on a losing spin, a small fraction of that amount was redirected into a single jackpot pool.

Throw in the huge odds against winning – which ensure that a Megabucks jackpot only hits once every year or two – and millions of players putting in thousands of spins can add up in a hurry.

Don’t believe me? Just check out the table below to see how the Megabucks jackpot stacked up over the course of an entire decade:

Megabucks Jackpot History (2010 – 2017)

DATE	CASINO	CITY, STATE	JACKPOT AMOUNT
08/08/17	Fremont	Las Vegas, NV	$11,809,407.24
03/22/16	Gold Dust West	Elko, NV	$12,515,708.83
03/14/15	Westgate Hotel & Casino	Las Vegas, NV	$10,744,293.40
11/30/14	Rampart Casino	Las Vegas, NV	$14,282,544.21
12/05/13	MGM Grand Casino	Las Vegas, NV	$10,337,637.92
11/04/13	MGM Grand Casino	Las Vegas, NV	$12,463,147.70
04/10/13	Bonanza Casino	Reno, NV	$11,798,514.65
12/14/12	M Resort	Las Vegas, NV	$17,329,817.67
06/15/11	Grand Sierra Resort	Reno, NV	$10,379,294.92
04/22/11	Aria Hotel & Casino	Las Vegas, NV	$10,636,897.78
01/21/11	Aria Hotel and Casino	Las Vegas, NV	$12,769,933.87
02/21/10	Reno Airport	Reno, NV	$10,422,754.08

Of course, those enormous payouts are only

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