Video poker is a single-player video game that functions much like a slot machine ; most video poker machines play draw poker, where the player bets, a hand is dealt, and the player can discard and replace cards.

Casinos frequently offer them to frequent and / or high-value players in games such as craps, blackjack, video poker and slot machines.

Increasingly, more modern games such as video games and slot machines are provided.

The first true video slot machine was developed in 1976 in an industrial suite in Kearney Mesa, CA by N. Cerracchio, R. Greene, W. Beckman, J. Reukes, and L. Black under the direction of the Las Vegas based Fortune Coin Co.

After some " cheat-proofing " modifications, the video slot machine was approved by the Nevada State Gaming Commission and eventually found popularity in the Las Vegas Strip and downtown casinos.

Fortune Coin Co. and their video slot machine technology were purchased by IGT ( International Gaming Technology ) in 1978.

The first American video slot machine to offer a " second screen " bonus round was Reel ' Em In developed by WMS Industries Inc. in 1996.

The symbols are usually brightly colored and easily recognizable, such as images of fruits, numerals or letters, and simple shapes such as bells, diamonds, or hearts ; newer video slot machines use animated cartoon characters and images of popular actors or singers ( in the case of themed slot machines, as described below ).

Most games have a variety of winning combination of symbols, often posted on the face of the machine ( or available on a different screen, accessible by touching a button on the main touchscreen, on video slot machines ).

Reel slot machines commonly have three or five paylines, while video slot machines may have 9, 15, 25, or as many as 100 different paylines.

Most video slot machines have a themed game, some of which feature graphics and music based on popular entertainers, motion pictures or TV programs ( The Addams Family, I Dream of Jeannie, Happy Days, etc.

One of the main differences between video slot machines and reel machines is in the way payouts are calculated.

Classic spinning reel machines usually have up to nine paylines, while video slot machines may have as many as one hundred.

In addition, because there are no mechanical constraints on the design of video slot machines, most display five reels rather than three.

" Each slot machine in the group contributes a small amount to this progressive jackpot, awarded to a player who gets, for example, a royal flush on a video poker machine or a specific combination of symbols on a regular or nine-line slot machine.

" Class II " slot machines ( also known as " video lottery terminals " or " VLTs ") are connected to a centralized computer system that determines the outcome of each wager.

Other than the built-in cassette and video ports, the only provided means of expansion was a slot opening at the rear of the case, which exposed an expansion bus edge connector on the motherboard.

Pachinko machines were originally strictly mechanical, but modern ones have incorporated extensive electronics, becoming similar to video slot machines.

However, a custodian removed the security camera video tape, rewound it, and placed a new tape into the slot just as the duo entered the cafeteria.

In part because the network does not air commercials and advertises only network programming, films typically run short of their allotted time slot interstitial programming airs to fill an entire two-hour slot, usually an episode of a Disney Channel original series for a film running about 90 to 100 minutes, an 11-minute-long episode of an original animated series for a film running 105 minutes, and any film longer than 105 minutes has the remaining time filled with a music video, promotions, and / or shorts such as Shaun the Sheep, Have a Laugh!

It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

This most commonly refers to matched pairs of handguns but can refer to any other weapon that can be held in one hand such as machine pistols and even melee weapons, although this is more common in role-playing video games.

Bosch's machine used a modified 1 " Type B transport, and recorded an early form of CCIR 601 digital video.

With the popularity of telecine transfers and video edits, Kodak invented a machine readable edge number that could be recorded via computer, read by the editing computer and automatically produce a " cut list " from the video edit of the film.

The 1MB machine ( 128k of ROM, 128k of video RAM, 768k of system RAM ) promised graphics with 256 colours on-screen simultaneously, could handle 3 million pixels per second, output 8 channel stereo and had a blitter chip that allowed vertical and horizontal hardware scrolling.

Minsky says that the biggest source of ideas about the theory came from his work in trying to create a machine that uses a robotic arm, a video camera, and a computer to build with children's blocks.

The arcade version of the video game hardware is often referred to as the " MVS ," or Multi Video System ( available in 1-slot, 2-slot, 4-slot, and 6-slot variations, the latter being capable of up to six cartridges loaded into one machine ), with its console counterpart referred to as the " AES ", or Advanced Entertainment System ( most likely to distinguish it from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the dominating console on the market at the time ). Neo Geo AES motherboard.

The copper is a programmable finite state machine that executes a programmed instruction stream, synchronized with the video hardware.

One of the first video games, Spacewar !, was developed for this machine.

In April 2011, Pepsi announced that customers will be able to buy a complete stranger a soda at a new " social " vending machine, and even record a video that the stranger would see when they pick up the gift.

In 2005, the American indie / alternative rock band The Bravery released a video for their debut single, " An Honest Mistake ," which features the band performing the song in the middle of a Rube Goldberg machine.

The 2010 music video " This Too Shall Pass-RGM Version " by the rock band OK Go features a machine that, after four minutes of kinetic activity, shoots the band members in the face with paint.

On the Wheel of Fortune video machine, the chances of triggering the bonus round or winning the maximum jackpot are exactly the same regardless of the number of coins bet on each line.

The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.

The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods.

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

The abdomen is inflated with carbon dioxide gas to facilitate visualization and, often, a small video camera is used to show the procedure on a monitor in the operating room.

* In the 2011 video game Warriors: Legends of Troy, Agamemnon is portrayed as a power-hungry tryant and is the main antagonist.

Applications could not directly address video memory in this mode without modification, so it was incompatible with most games, although there is no inherent reason why a game could not be written to function in shadow mode.

Exile ( 1988 video game ) | Exile is an example of a game where the developers left non-graphical data visible in the display buffer to gain additional memory space.

Notable popular games particularly associated with the Electron include: Crystal Castles ( video game ) | Crystal Castles is an example of a popular arcade game officially ported to the Electron ( US Gold ).

The ansible is also featured in the video game Advent Rising, for which Card helped write the story.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

Analog ( or analogue ) television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the information to be transmitted, the brightness and colors of the points in the image and the sound waves of the audio signal are represented by continuous variations of some aspect of the signal ; its amplitude, frequency or phase.

In many countries, over-the-air broadcast television of analog audio and analog video signals is being discontinued, to allow the re-use of the television broadcast radio spectrum for other services such as datacasting and subchannels.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

A frame rate of 25 or 30 hertz is a satisfactory compromise, while the process of interlacing two video fields of the picture per frame is used to build the image.

In practice a technique called vestigial sideband is used to reduce the channel spacing, which would be at least twice the video bandwidth if pure AM was used.

A demodulator recovers the video signal and sound as an FM signal at the offset frequency ( this is known as intercarrier sound ).

The video carrier is demodulated to give a composite video signal ; this contains luminance, chrominance and synchronization signals ; this is identical to the video signal format used by analog video devices such as VCRs or CCTV cameras.