{"id":1837,"date":"2013-09-24T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2023-03-22T06:44:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:44:44","slug":"fruit-machines-got-fruit-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/fruit-machines-got-fruit-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fruit Machines Got Their Fruit Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"
When a 25-year-old software engineer from Phoenix called Bill Elfritz put his last $20 into the Megabucks slot machine at the Excalibur casino in Las Vegas, he probably wasn\u2019t aware of the history of the game he was playing.<\/p>\n
He would have cared even less about Megabucks\u2019 place in the history books \u2013 more his own if anything \u2013 when he hit three jackpot symbols in a row to take down a progressive jackpot of almost $40 million. [1]<\/p>\n