![]() ![]() How did this come about, and did they ever shoot the show in Westchester County? -Linda Glazowski, SomersĪ: T he Facts of Life aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988. Q: The classic ’80s TV sitcom The Facts of Life was set in Peekskill. These Empire City stats were based on 25-cent machines. That’s the same rate as Atlantic City’s Borgata, minutely better than the Connecticut casinos at 91.59 percent and the Vegas Strip casinos at 91.52 percent, but not as good as the downtown Vegas sites at 94.85 percent. The latest reports show that Empire City’s VLTs paid out 91.76 percent of what they took in. The VLTs hold up comparatively well against the slot machines in other casinos. Probably more important to the gamblers are the odds of winning. The results look like a Vegas slot machine, but, in essence, it’s the same process as furtively scratching a lottery ticket outside of a convenience store. Instead, the main computer generates a number combination exactly like a lottery scratch-off ticket and “scratches” the results off while bells, bars, cherries, and whistles spin in front of the gambler. The VLTs are networked into the New York State Lottery mainframe in Schenectady, and they don’t run off a random number generator, per se. They don’t sport a handle, and you can’t actually put money in them or get money out of them a somewhat less sexy voucher gets printed out, and you go see a cashier to get your winnings. Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs), like the ones at Empire City, physically work pretty much the same way. Some games still feature the mechanized handle, but the machines are now completely computerized and employ random number generators to determine who wins and how much. ![]() ![]() Those one-armed bandits are the biggest revenue producers in the casino industry, having supplanted table games years ago. Q: I like playing the slot machines at Empire City Casino, though I am told that, officially, they are not slot machines but “Video Lottery Terminals.” How do they differ, and is it important to the betting aspect of gambling? -Maxine Doherty, YonkersĪ: We all know what a slot machine is. ![]()
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