The One-Armed Bandit Never Really Left the Arcade

A Design That Never Needed a Rewrite Charles Fey built the Liberty Bell in the back of his San Francisco workshop in 1895: three spinning reels, a handful of symbols, a single payline, and a mechanism simple enough to run on nothing but springs and gravity. According to Britannica’s history of the format, Fey’s design […] The post The One-Armed Bandit Never Really Left the Arcade appeared first on…