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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 5050164" data-attributes="member: 2525">Slot machines have advanced to being nearly video games.  These days, you spin the wheels, and if stuff comes up in a line that matches (or if a wild card makes it match), you win money.  You can bet on more than one "line" however.  It's not just the top, middle, and bottom line now.  You can also bet on diagonals and all sorts of wacky lines that they give you the option to cover.  For example, I typically play games with 15 lines, but I have seen them as high as something like 50 lines (which is just silly, and you have a screen full of criss-crossing lines trying to show you what you just bet on).This game is actually not the highest level of game I have seen.  It still uses things like J for Jack.  Many better games use fully animated characters.  For example, I am fond of the Star Trek game, which uses characters from the show, who talk when they come up in groups of three or more.  And the game saves your handle, so if you go back a year later (like I just did) it still knows who you are and has your prior medals on record (used to unlock different games in the machine that others cannot use if they do not have enough medals).For example, here is a bonus round on Star Trek:[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YKwJEyCvDU[/ame]Anyway, the games have one or more bonuses that can be triggered, and usually it averages two different kinds of bonuses (not including whats called a scatter bonus).  The "Dungeon" bonus comes up in this example.  You choose which room to enter, and if the room has treasure you get extra money or a bonus move or both, and if it has a bad guy I assume you fight and can lose and end the bonus there.</blockquote>

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