Subliminal Slot Machines: Feeling Lucky Human?

by Jordan Yerman | February 27, 2007 at 11:29 am

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I particularly like how Konami spins the subliminal message as a "glitch". Gambling is already a long-term losing proposition (the house always wins), but this breed of machine sendmetenbucks makes it worse.

A gambling operator in Ontario, Canada, has shut down 87 Konami video slot machines due to concerns that they may contain subliminal messages encouraging players to keep gambling, according to CBC News. The Canadian news service reported that three brands of video slot machines sold by the publisher's gambling division flashed winning jackpot symbols for one-fifth of a second during every spin.