![]() ![]() Some of them gamble at the Skyline Restaurant and Casino in Henderson, Nev., where half of the 420 slot machines use coins. They used the “Boogie Nights” retro theme for the slot machines as part of a deliberate appeal to older players. The casino, with one of the oldest customer bases in Atlantic City, has been doing well with a nightclub called “Boogie Nights,” where ‘70s disco rules. Resorts opened eight of the coin machines this week, and will add others if they catch on. “As soon as this technology became available, the industry grabbed onto it.” ![]() “It’s very time-consuming and costly to run coins,” said Christopher Downey, Resorts’ director of slot operations. No longer was it necessary to pay workers to stock machines with coins, transport them to or from cash cages, count and roll them. Casinos liked the fact that the new machines didn’t jam nearly as often, had to be maintained far less, and best of all, required fewer employees. The trend accelerated in 2003 when the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa opened in Atlantic City as the resort’s first coinless casino. None of Atlantic City’s 33,010 other slot machines use coins, though a small handful use tokens for high-denomination bets. Its coin experiment is definitely swimming against the tide in the casino industry, where nearly 90 percent of the 900,000 or so slot machines in use in north America do not accept or pay out in coins. ![]()
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