Credit vs. Coin Play Selection (Part 2)
This is very convenient. I like credit meters, and also ticket printers on cash-out, because they avoid the need to deal with all those heavy and dirty coins, as well as fill delays, coin jams, and so on. For video slots, such credit play is absolutely essential. None of the modern video slots would be possible without credit meters and currency acceptors. Could you imagine yourself having to stuff 90 nickels, one at a time, into a tiny nickel-sized coin slot for each and every pull? You’d go nuts. The convenience factor of credit play has made the multi-line video slot games possible.
Among reel slots, this is less of an issue. Most of the bet-ter reel slots are in the $1 and $5 denominations, and since you should mostly play no more than 2 coins per pull (on 2-coin-maximum-wager machines, more on machines which require slots tournaments more coins for maximum play value), the credit play option does not have nearly the impact that it has for the nickel video slots, or the quarter video slots, where the re-quirement of multi-coin multi-line play is essential for the game and the win success. It is, however, very handy for keeping track of your progress as you play the machine.
To be continued…