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Where did all these Asian-flavored slot machines come from? Why are they here? Who makes them? And why are they so darned fun to play?

These and many other questions arise whenever I walk into a casino or visit one of the many free mobile slot apps littering my Android. I recall the days when I might see one or two slot machines over in the corner, flashing odd ideograms and playing twangy Chinese music.

Did you know the Chinese have 12 notes in their musical scale, while we Westerners have to make do with a mere eight?

Those days are long past. Today, it’s virtually impossible to avoid Asian-themed slot machines—and who would want to? They’re different, and they have many fun features you don’t find on the traditional Western slots. With a little digging, you discover they offer up surprisingly in-depth looks at the way the various Asian cultures view themselves, and the penchant for gambling they share with the western world.

Here’s a look at some of the differences, some of the similarities, and some of the games that exemplify the Asian influence on modern slot games.

We’ll start first with the reason for the sudden growth of Asian-based slots. One word: Tourism.

Japan is second only to the UK in its love of the US as a vacation destination. More than seven million Japanese tourists flooded various destination cities like New York and San Francisco in 2018—with more than a few of those visiting Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

A big reason for that is that Japan does not permit casinos. Sure, there are pachinko parlors and various other forms of mild gambling, but nothing compares to the glitz and glamour and sheer multitude of gambling opportunities American resort casinos have to offer.

Surprisingly, China is in third place (just behind Japan) in its tourism of the US, with nearly six million Chinese nationals visiting the US in 2018.

Like Japan, all gambling is illegal in China unless you count the state-run National Lottery, which the Chinese government does not consider gambling. And yet, like the Americans, the British, and the Nepalese, the Chinese love to gamble. What to do?

Well, again, one word: Tourism. In the past decade, China has sent a veritable army of tourists to America. Between the years 2008 and 2016, for example, Chinese tourism to the US grew by more than 600%.

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Even South Korea and India have done their part; between the two countries, they accounted for more American tourism in 2018 than Japan did. All told, countries from the Asian sphere account for nearly a third of all international tourism in the US.

So while twenty or thirty years ago it might have seemed odd to play a slot machine based on a Japanese anime series or a Chinese dice game, today, that’s just accepted at casinos. It’s particularly true for those in destination cities where a third of their visitors speak Japanese, Mandarin, or one of the zillion dialects of India.

Why? To put it bluntly, a company that ignores a third of its potential clientele is a company not long for this world. Casinos understand this almost instinctively.

The Novelty

Every slot player has his or her “machines” they tend to play regularly, whether that means once every three or four months during a weekend Vegas trip or a daily visit to a favorite casino in Atlantic City, Tunica, or Reno.

But even a favored machine can begin to seem stale and uninteresting over time. You have the pay table memorized. You could find the PLAY button with your eyes closed. You know all the cocktail waitresses by name. You catch yourself humming your favorite slot’s theme music on your morning commute into work.

Familiarity breeds… something, I forget what, but I do recall that it isn’t good.

Whatever it is, though, it can drive you to try out one of those odd slot machines with reels full of Chinese ideographs and images of dragons, chubby babies, rice bowls, and—for some reason—roosters.

Or maybe those Japanese anime-inspired slots, with samurai swords, dragons, big-eyed girls, and yes, roosters on the reels catching your fancy.

Okay, I gotta stop right here and talk about what a big deal roosters are in many Asian cultures. The rooster is one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac and symbolizes good luck, honesty, and protection. Since China is to its sphere of influence in Asia what the US is to its own sphere of influence in the West, the rooster is generally regarded throughout Asia as a symbol of good fortune.

Incidentally, in China, the dragon is a symbol of power and good luck. In Japan, the dragon is a symbol of success and good luck. Both India and Korea view the dragon with affection as being powerful, benign, and lucky. Seeing a trend here?

Back to the novelty of Asian-themed slot machines.

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The theme music is very often quite soothing, rather than exciting or boisterous, which quite frankly is a welcome change from the Nickelodeon-calliope outbursts we often get from the usual slots.

The images, too, are usually different from the cartoonish depictions of miners, outlaws, zombies, and other festive images.

People are people, the world over. That’s a prosaic observation that nevertheless surprises people of all cultures when they first visit a country outside of their particular home environment. Sure, various cultures tend to perceive things and actions differently, but still certain motifs remain consistent across the board.

Japanese-themed slot machines, for instance, feature cherries, but that venerable symbol of the slot machine is transformed into a sakura (cherry blossom). Dragons are often used as multiplying or scatter symbols on all the Asian-influenced slots.

We’ve all heard the trope that slurping your tea in Japan is considered a compliment to your host (although belching the alphabet to further compliment the host is not, it turns out).

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of slot machines featuring Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Korean themes. Some represent a gentle nod to Western gamblers, such as the Bruce Lee slot machine, but others seem entirely devoted to the Asian gambler.

While you don’t have to be proficient in Mandarin or Cantonese to gamble (and win) on these machines, the absence of the symbols Westerners typically associate with slot machines can be disconcerting, at first. Where are the cherries, the sevens, the bars? How will I know if I’ve won?

Fa Fa Twins from BetSoft Gaming is a 3D five-reel, three-row online slot that features identical-twin toddlers. I’m not sure what Chinese identical twins with huge eyes have to do with luck or winning or gambling or slot machines, but hey, BetSoft appears to know what it’s doing. The game itself is very popular.

One unique feature of Fa Fa Twins is one I haven’t seen implemented in traditional Western slots. It’s the opportunity to “double up” on your bet for increased winnings.

By the way, in Mandarin, “fa” means “hair” but the character for “fa” is also used in the ideogram for the word “facia”, which means “to become wealthy.” I’m gonna guess that the Fa Fa Twins are not concerned with your hair so much as they are with your good fortune. Or at least I hope so.

Toddlers and babies seem to be a popular fixture in a surprising number of Chinese-themed slots. Take Fu Dao Le (“Good Fortune Has Arrived”) from Bally Technologies. This slot can be found at brick-and-mortar casinos and online casinos, and even appears on some free mobile apps. Two Chinese babies are both riding a fish (a symbol of abundance) and both holding golden rice bowls (another symbol of abundance).

88 Fortunes also features Chinese babies. It also points out the fact that the number seven is not a big feature of Asian slots, but eight certainly is. In fact, the number eight is important in a wide range of Asian games, not just the slots.

Like the color red, 8 has an almost mystical air of good luck. Many of the Chinese-themed slots even set their max bet at 88 coins, for example. Did I mention that eight is the luckiest number in China? I guess I have now.

Spin Dragons, available on the Caesars Slots free mobile app, is a slight departure from the other games in that it does not feature toddlers or babies of Chinese or any other origin. Instead, this five-reel, four-row slot has gemstones, swords, several different dragons, and some bottles of a ruby elixir as symbols along with a nest full of dragon eggs as its scatter symbol.

At random moments, a long-necked dragon will pop up and fire a stream of fire on a random reel, converting all four of the symbols on that reel to the game’s wild symbol—a dragon’s eye.

One last online slot with a Chinese theme: The Fucanglong online slot from RTG (Realtime Gaming). The name suggests (to people far cruder than you or I) a rude answer to the question “How long is this opera?” In reality, Fucanglong is a mythical dragon from Chinese folklore charged with guarding hidden treasure.

Japanese-themed slots differ significantly from those based in Chinese culture because, you know, they’re based on Japanese culture rather than Chinese culture.

Instead of the rampant good luck symbols of China, you’ll find the reels on Japanese-flavored slot games to tend more to geishas, sakura, fans, sumo wrestlers, and yes, samurai. But that’s if the game is going for a cultural history flavor, which in many cases, it’s not.

You’re more likely to find much more modern Japanese themes explored, such as popular anime and even clothing lines.

One such is IGT’s Tokidoki Lucky Town, usually referred to simply as Tokidoki. This five-reeler features symbols from the popular Tokidoki line of clothing and accessories, all of which feature cartoon Hello-Kittyish characters. Even the music played as the reels spin is cartoonish. It’s almost a surfeit of cute, second only to WMS’s OMG! Kittens in cuteness overload, actually.

If you’re looking for Japanese-flavored slots that feature more historical or traditional looks at Japanese culture, look to Matsuri from Play’n GO. This online slot features symbols like goldfish, fans, geishas, cat masks, and what appears to be either a raspberry slushie or a bowl of rice topped with something red. The game also offers an odd and very slow bonus round where you use a net to catch goldfish swimming around in an aquarium to build your bonus winnings.

Despite the occasional oddity, Japan-influenced slot themes are among the most Westernized, which makes them more accessible to Western gamblers, but they still somehow manage to retain a distinctly Japanese skew.

Looking for a little more curry in your gambling diet? There are a variety of slot games with India-based themes, such as Microgaming’s Cash n Curry slot. As seen on the Ladbrokes website as well as in pubs throughout the UK), the game is a standard three-reeler that substitutes bowls of curry for other symbols on the reels. It does have a “nudge and hold” feature, and it plays fast, but still, it’s barely Asian.

A better introduction to slots based on that region of Asia is the Kathmandu slot machine from Microgaming. This Nepal-inspired game features such well-known slot symbols as temples, elephants, and a map of Nepal. Oh, and the scatter symbol is a prayer wheel.

Notice how I’ve avoided saying that playing the Kathmandu slot game is a religious experience. I’m classy that way.

By now, you’ve probably noticed that regardless of whether the slot game is based on the history and mythology of China, the Japanese flair for the oddly attractive (or attractively odd), or even India’s need to inject their own mythology into the gambling experience, one thing remains constant: Winning.

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You win on any of the slots in the same manner as you would on any Western slot game: by matching symbols across the reels. Wildcards are wildcards. Scatters are scatters.

And they still provide bonus rounds regardless of whether the scatter symbol is a sunrise as with the Buffalo slot or a nest of dragon eggs, as with the online Chinese-themed Spin Dragons.

And despite a recent slowdown in Chinese tourism to the States, the Asian-themed slot games continue to grow in popularity. That’s because Asian tourists aren’t the only ones who like playing them. Not by a long shot.

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One last word. If you don’t have time to visit Vegas or Atlantic City to try out these cool-sounding Asian machines, never fear. It really isn’t necessary to book the next flight to Las Vegas or head for the Port Authority to catch the next bus to Atlantic City to play them. There are many online casinos and free mobile apps available that offer these games. We can even recommend a few for you to try out.