So "an ice cube's chance in Hell" isn't a good enough approximation?

From my personal condition, having two eyes that focus in totally different manners and uncoordinated hands to go with them, my ability to shoot down Space Invaders or whatnot, zooming around on a screen at Ferrari-speeds, is pretty much zero. And observing other people often in casinos - handicapped, mentally out of it, and even blind - I would say many "guests" would be in similar straits.

Good points all, and the variation would be - When Hell Freezes Over?

I used to play games, and do arcade stuff, heck I played pinball like mad when I was a teen, and for help in case that's lost, that means in the 50s and 60s of the last Century. Right around the time I was running my first dial-up BBS, I had a new game = computers.

But meanwhile, them claiming this is about Millennials is hogwash. Kids in the 70s played Pong, then the 80s there was Atari and computer gaming. With high speed Internet, online games and competition arrived. There are now gaming addicts, and they were doing that before the Millennials were born!

It's a new way to get their hands into our pockets by claiming this is change and better than what we have now. Call me a grumpy old man (you won't be the first) but table games are still the best entertainment at the casinos. If I did play a slot, I walked in with the knowledge that I was making a voluntary donation, and no expectations that I was going to win.

The part about not changing odds, is like the not counting coins, or not paying the big jackpot with one coin played, that people never win, as chumming the player to add more money or play all three coins. (yeah, remember when ALL lines meant three coins, not 64 credits?) So reasonably assuming these will be tested and measured in a casino. I'd say find the first place to have them, and hope they made a mistake, and they pay too much or too often!

The Silver Strike machines had a good hold in the first years. Then they fiddled with the progressive and changed the wheels = removed some cherries, and they became of no interest to me. Those first machine were FUN! Now they are just like the rest of the slots, pumping out HSG brass tokens, paying off less often, and the former progressive is a fixed amount. All so the casino can (where did this start?)

Get their hands into our pockets! for more profits.

I started collecting chips and tokens awhile back and going from place to place in Reno, took all night, and then part of another night. That was more of a winner than watching wheels spins. Oh of course, it's not for profit, but I have the chips and tokens? That is a winner. Wish I had pocketed more. There were the free spins, free gifts, come back in an hour and get a free ... Still the days of some killer buffets, oyster bars, 99c shrimp cocktails, and trinkets for walking through the enchanted Forrest at Fitzgerald's.

Most of those places are check cashing, convince stores, cigarette outlets or boarded up. Sad to see them go. Happy to see that Fremont street is still around, hanging on.