History of slot machines

• In 1895 Charles Fey, an American, developed the first slot machine, a one-arm bandid. Herbert S. Mills started manufacture of the “bandits” and slot machines were also imported to Europe.
• The first slot machine to be used in Finland was the Bajazzo, a machine which tested the player’s skill and was imported from Germany in the mid 1920s. It took its name from the Italian word pagliaccio (jester), and the aim was to land a ball in the jester’s hat.
• Manufacture of slot machines in Finland was started in 1929. The first slot machine was a Payazzo machine with five columns of coins.
• The first fruit machines arrived in Finland in the 1960s, being introduced first on passenger ships and later in pubs, restaurants and clubs, and in arcades at amusement parks.
• RAY manufactured its first electronic slot machine in 1980.

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