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] seems to agree, and has built an open-source three-color matrix slot machine complete with handle.
In this case, you’ll be losing all of your nickels to an Arduino Pro Mini. The handle is an upgrade to an earlier slot machine project that uses three 8×8 matrices and a custom driver board. When the spring-loaded handle is pulled, it strikes a micro switch to spins the reels and then snaps back into place. Between each pull, the current score is displayed across the matrix. There’s even a piezo buzzer for victory squawks. We only wish the button under the handle were of the clickier variety, just for the feels. Check out the short demo video after the break.
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If you’re not a gambler, you could always turn your slot machine into a clock.
| Hot Slots | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Idea-Tek[1] |
| Publisher(s) | Hacker International/Panesian |
| Platform(s) | NES/Famicom |
| Release |
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| Genre(s) | Simulation(slot machine) |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hot Slots, or AV Pachisuro (AVパチスロ), is a slot machinesimulation video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Idea-Tek, and published by Hacker International/Panesian in 1991.
AV Pachisuro is the title of the Japanese release for the Family Computer (or Famicom); Hot Slots (titled Hot Slot in-game) is the English-language version of the game published for the NES. The title AV Pachisuro combines the English initialism AV (audiovisual) with the Japanese contracted wordpachisuro (a portmanteau of pachinko and slot).
Gameplay[edit]
To begin a game, the player chooses one of three slot machines: Cutie Bunny, Juicy Fruits, or Las Vegas. Each machine has a distinct visual design and musical score. After purchasing 'medallions' (token coins), the player may play up to five medallions in a machine for each pull. The player stops each reel by pressing a direction on the D-pad. Between spins, the player can optionally switch to another machine.
Hot Slots is an eroge, a video game that rewards game progress, persistence, or performance with images that are sexually explicit or suggestive. Each slot machine is accompanied by a scantily-clad hostess, who appears at intervals when the player's winnings surpass a certain threshold. When the player nets a profit of $210, the game displays a full-screen cartoon image of the partially clothed hostess with a caption or speech balloon. At a net profit of $300, she loses more of her clothing; at $450, she appears nude.
Reception[edit]
Allgame gave the game a rating of 1 star out of a possible 5.[2]
See also[edit]
- Peek-A-Boo Poker (1990)
- Magic Bubble (1991)
References[edit]
- ^jbholio. 'Unlicensed NES Games Guide'. Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
- ^Rating of Hot Slots at allgame
External links[edit]
- Hot Slots at MobyGames