THE
SLOT
FEBRUARY
Coin Slot COIN
Magazine - #006
- 1975 - February [International
Arcade Museum]
1975
Little Chief, Duo, Little Ven
mechanically and physically,
except for some refinements to
make the 4*Bells" more excit
dor,
Silver
Dollar,
Cup,
the
and
first
Silver
one-armed
ing looking, and more reliable.
bandit designed to take that
The first machine had only ten
symbols on each reel (called a
large a coin."
44ten
a
a number of different machines
possible 1000 different combi
nations (ten to the third power).
that are all but forgotten, but
Later versions, starting at a-
pears to be here to stay for a
bout 1927, had twenty symbols
for a possible
while longer.
stop"
machine),
for
Mr. Fey may have designed
his
original
Liberty
Bell
ap
on each reel,
8000 combinations (twenty to
the third power). Certain bells
of this period that had twenty
symbols printed on each reel
were
actually
ten
stop
chines. Ten signs were
ma
legiti
mate, and could stop on the
payline, while ten (usually only
"Bars")
entice
were
the
there
player
just
to
to
The Admiral
wager
by Dick Bueschel
again. When the player saw so
many
bars
on
the
reels
he
One of the best known of the
thought for sure that he had a
large
very good chance of winning,
before
not realizing that almost all of
tually
the
winning
combinations
could never materialize.
The Admiral was built by M.A.
The original machine, called
the Liberty Bell by Fey, in on
display at the Liberty Belle
Saloon, Reno, Nevada. Owned
by Marshall and Franklin Fey,
grandsons of Charley Fey, the
saloon
also
houses
a
huge
other
old
upright
the
slot
Mills
swamped
machines
Dewey
the
vir
market,
Larkin, Manufacturer, in Troy,
New York. It was also the first
of the large machines to ap
pear
in
when
it
national
was
advertising
illustrated
Larkin
advertisement
March
1,
om
m.c
in
in
a
the
1899 issue of THE
BILLBOARD. The Admiral fea
m: useu tured a number of advanced
o and
r
f
d
interesting slot machines.
Ac e-m
devices, including a slug detec
e
ad
oad .a
l
c
cording to John n Scarne,
"Char
r
tor in its six-way coin head, as
ow
w many
w
les Fey D
also developed
well as a non-repeat device in
w
/
p:/ old-timers
other slots
the head. The latter item was
htt which
collection
may
of
remember:
On The
machine,
Level,
Draw
a
Policy,
Poker,
"36"
dice
4 '4-11-44",
Three Jacks, On the Square,
© The International Arcade Museum
very important as slick players
had
discovered
played
a
coin,
that
if
you
started
the
handle on most of the upright
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