When I visited Bally in mid-March, Mike Trask, the company’s senior marketing manager, walked me into the company’s showroom to play some games. The room was silent apart from the soothing hum of two dozen hibernating consolesīally Technologies, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of slot machines, is headquartered 3 miles south of the Strip. And that’s all before you’ve even reached your hotel-casino, which - if it follows the modern standard - dedicates roughly 80 percent of its gaming floor to slots, and only 20 percent to table games. Once you pick up your rental car, you can stop for gas and play slots at a convenience store. You can play a slot machine in Las Vegas before you’ve even reached baggage claim: there are tiny slots parlors in every terminal of McCarran International Airport.
