Online penny slots are the evolution of gambling technology which is more than one hundred years old! The first ever slot machine was designed back in the late 1800’s and was apparently more than 100lbs worth of cast iron. It did however, have the traditional three reels and with it the traditions of the slot machine were born.  The fruit symbols only came later.

Penny slots gradually came into existence in the 1930’s, when they started to become popular in Las Vegas. It was thought a game that the wife could safely play while the husband was doing the serious business on the roulette or blackjack tables! In these more enlightened days, everyone can enjoy playing online penny slots, or the plentiful slots in casinos. How times change for the better (mostly….)

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Computerised technology means that online penny slots have evolved way beyond the traditional “one armed bandit”, with its three reels and simple one line payouts. You can play with different numbers of coins – though it is possible to find online slots which literally do cost a penny to play. You can find slots with 3 or 5 reels, and literally dozens of winning lines – something the iron horse of old technology just cannot compete with.

The other killer attraction of online penny slots is the secondary games they can now offer. These bonus games can offer you different ways to enhance your winnings and break up play. They can also offer the kind of fabulous visuals that the hardy souls moulding cast iron into one of the world’s first gambling devices couldn’t conceive of.