For some reason, when slot machines went digital, they lost their best feature — the handle. Who wants to push a button on a slot machine, anyway? Might as well just play video poker. [John Bradnam] ...

When you see fruit in slot machines, you must think to yourself how amusing that is. Indeed, fruit symbols are almost as refreshing and invigorating as tasting real fruit, especially when you get ...

Three am in a central London casino. Somewhere over the other side of the cavernous room a slot machine is paying out wildly. I hear a cascade of coins banging, apparently endlessly, into a payout ...

Northants, UK, 17 February 2006. Liquid Games today announces Fruit Machine Mania, a scintillating compilation of slot machine-inspired games. The twist is that the traditional gambling element ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I was sorry to read of the decline of fruit machines. Their usage in British pubs has gone down, no one seems certain ...