The clack is back! Coin Slot Machines are back!

There is no sound like the sound of clacking coins! And finally the Atlantic City's oldest casino is bringing back the real clang amid indications that some gamblers missed so much.

The Resorts casino became the nation's first legal casino outside Las Vegas when it opened in 1978 and has since seen more than 14,000 slot machines come and go.

"You think you're playing a real slot machine here," said Jeanette Snell of Union "This is real money! I like this better."

Of course, the coin slot machines haven't been substituted by the new and more modern machines without reason. The new machines didn't jam nearly as often, had to be maintained far less, and best of all, required fewer employees. No longer was it necessary to pay workers to stock machines with coins, transport them to or from cash cages, count and roll them.
"It's very time-consuming and costly to run coins," said Christopher Downey, Resorts' director of slot operations. Nevertheless, coinless slots are the future of the industry, said Ed Rogich, vice president of IGT, a leading slot machine manufacturer.