Article by D.D.D. Tracey
I cyber on into a flash online casino and check out the slot game menu. What do I find? Most likely it will be divided up into two columns. There will be the online Slot Machine games in one list and the online Video Slot Games in another. So exactly what have we here? What is the difference? The answer is there could be a lot of differences, just as there are differences internally within the same category. But the difference between these two categories boils down to is new verses old, tradition verses innovation.
Let me elaborate and clarify. Slot machines began years ago as a clunky one armed robot. They then morphed into a computer screen and evolved fast into what we see today in interactive video slot games such as “A Day at The Races”, “Blood Sucker” and more. But people had to get used to the shift. So when online slots came along the tendency of the online slot game software designers was to make the video slots to look like a slot machine. This is a normal customer product recognition issue.
So the difference is cosmetic but the difference doesn’t stop there. A gradual shift away from the “machine look” soon took place. More room for movement on the screen was available. With this extra room a function shift emerged. Before you had a slot machine standing in the middle of a graphically produced casino floor. The video slot does not lend itself to this pretence. You now have more area for great graphics, movement, animation and in many cases involvement of the player. Newer video slots have more active graphics. By active graphics I am referring to the graphics that are moving while playing slots. The Paytable sitting there, unchanging, staring up at you for hours does not have to be placed on the main screen. It stands to reason the larger the playing area the more movement you will have on the video screen and the more possibilities you have for creating interaction.
Slot Machines, no download or download are not normally interactive in the true sense of the word. The game screen is smaller which decreases the capacity to manipulate a game inside the screen. Pirates Gold ll is the exception to the rule. Pirates Gold is another flash casino no download slot game. It is a good example of the cross over between Video Slot and the Slot Machine. With Pirates Gold ll you can see the slot machine sitting in the casino isle, yet it is INTERACTIVE in the true sense of the word. This alone sets it apart from the other “Slot Machines”. When the bonus game is activated a portion of the stationary slot machine converts to a game screen along with the reels part of the screen. So there is more room for interactive play.
But that is what I really admire about online slot games, be it machines or video. As soon as a “normality” is established, the next release stretches the envelope. Territory is being opened up every week in new releases of slot games redifining what they are. Where will it end up. Most likely likely it will be on the head of a pin orbiting Neptune’s incredible moon Miranda.
If you want to try out the above mentioned slot games on a Mac they are all Mac compatible. But you don’t need to have a Mac to play at Mac casinos. With a PC you can enter any Flash Casino and play no download slot games. It is the Mac users that need to be careful. We can only play at no download casinos.
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