Every bone in my body hates slot machines!
I even bought one one time to chop it up! It took a while but it ended up in little pieces in the back yard. Little artificial cherries, oranges, and watermelons scattered among real tomatoes and the top parts of partially grown carrot plants.

Damn! That made me feel great!!! I even celebrated with a fruit salad and a couple of carrots and tomatos.

I hate to do this but now I gotta change my mind!

Last week someone held a gun to my head and made me play one of those Odyssey interactive slot machines. And I got hooked.

It started in the Bellagio. My best friend held a 45 to my head and said. "Put a quarter in that machine!".

I know him well so I did as he said and kept on doing it till he got bored and took off to
get a martini at one of the swanky lounges.

Well, by then I was hooked! He messed me up bad! I c ouldn't leave that machine! I just had to get those three sticks of dynamite so I could ride that little cart into the mine shaft to see what would happen once I reached its destination.

Out of the cornor of my left eye I could see the change girl and the cocktail waitress. They were as engrossed as I was.

Still watching the screen with an abnormal psssion, I asked the girls what was going to happen when the the three sticks of dynamite appeared and allowed the cart to enter the mine.

They didn't know! They had only been there a couple of months and had never seen it happen before! They were just as interested as I was!

Damn!!!!!

And then it happened! Three sticks of dynamite!!!!!

Oh shit!! Here we go!!!!

The little mine cart takes off like a dog in heat! Down into the mine shaft. It comes to a "y" in the track and and decides to go to the left.

It slams to a halt just short of a wall filled with dynamite and tells me to pick one of about 8 bundles of explosive set to explode in the cave wall.

I touch one and it explodes. When the dust clears, I discover I won 30 credits. I touch another. It explodes and the dust clears. 20 credits more. I continue to touch the explosives and continue to win credits. Credits now total 120 and I have three more explosives to set off.

I touch the next, and it merely pops and tells me to collect what I have won cause I get no more.

I'm haveing a good time. So is the change girl and the cocktail waitress who are encourageing me on to set off the right sticks of dynamite. This is the first time they have seen a winner. After all, we are in a Strip casino.

This is interactive. Not a simple show of cherries and and oranges and watermelons! I'm enjoying it.

Lefty comes back with a couple of double martinis.

Time to get serious and hit the craps and blackjack tables. But first I collect my bucket of quarters.

Dynamite is a blast under these conditions!








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will800

Cleverly written, Will. You reminded me why I love the Odyssey machines, whether I'm playing less than full-pay Lucky Draw or Phantom Belle Poker or one of the interactive slots. They're just plain entertaining! Thanks for your trip into the mine--haven't played that one yet.

Great post, Will. Thanks!

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Bill in Santa Monica, CA

Uh-oh, My wife's gonna want more quarters now. [img]http://www.talkvegas.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

Hey Will,
Great post!! I share your dislike for plain old slot machines but the interactive sounds exciting.

You have a great talent for writing. I think you should write a short story about the interactive machine and submit to a magazine. You're very entertaining. Nice to have you here.

Tom Casey