The world of gaming has very ancient origins and its link with technology is indissoluble, since, since the first videogames created and put on the market in the 70s of the last century, digital gaming has always provided new ideas and even solutions to digital evolution.
It cannot be otherwise for online casinos, which present games that are even older than classic gameplay, think of online roulette which represents the very first evolution of a game from a mechanical point of view, it is not surprising if currently, the games included in virtual casinos are among the most downloaded by users and some software have become real download champions in the last 10 years, such as apps dedicated to roulette.
There are many bizarre but also interesting curiosities about the game, let's discover them through the history of digital gaming in all its most unusual and surprising aspects: here are 7 curiosities about classic and digital roulette.
The first rudimentary roulette before the invention of traditional roulette
Already in the times of the ancient Greeks, soldiers enjoyed playing by spinning the spear on a shield positioned horizontally on the ground: the soldier who was indicated at the end of the round by the arrow won everything. The Romans improved the mechanism by placing the arrow on a wheel, it was possible to bet money on different segments and the one indicated by the arrow at the end of the spin was the winner.
The first roulette in the Paris Casino
It was 1765 when the first traditional roulette was put into operation at the Palays Royal in the French capital. Its design was minimal compared to modern graphics, only the numbers, the red and black boxes, the zero and the double zero were present.
Roulette among the first games in Italian casinos
The path technological of this game intersects with the history of Venice, where the first casino opened in 1638. The French version of roulette was among the first games present in this historic casino, which today overlooks the Grand Canal of the Serenissima.
Roulette was born from a scientific experiment
There are many curiosities about digital roulette and they date back long before online casinos, in fact, this game was invented by Blaise Pascal, mathematician and philosopher, who, to demonstrate perpetual motion and thanks to his passion for gaming, succeeded in this undertaking by combining passion and work.
Why is roulette called the Devil's game?
It was nicknamed the Devil's game because the result of the sum of the numbers present is 666, which for the Kabbalah is the number of Satan, however, it is a bizarre curiosity, because its inventor (mentioned before) believed in God and demonstrates it in the his philosophy, which encourages human beings to bet on God in their lives.
The first ever digital roulette
In the 90s Microgaming created the first online casino platform in the world and the first country to regulate digital gaming was Antigua and Barbuda, a small island in the Canary Islands but already at the forefront in this sector. A bizarre curiosity, but virtual roulette appeared on this platform for the first time.
Diet based on chips and dice
One of the most bizarre curiosities of Prohibition is the diet of chips and dice, not a real nutritional regime but an act to get rid of illegal tests. 100 years ago when the police arrived in a clandestine gambling den in the United States to carry out a raid, the players present at the table ate chips and dice, often even playing cards, in order to eliminate incriminating evidence.