Game Rooms are Often Dark and Illegal 

It is an old casino trick to keep people in the dark when they are playing slot machines and gambling at their establishments. There are no windows and oxygen is pumped in so that the players feel like it is still day or night and have no concept of time spent. This is an old trick to get more money out of their players and although everyone realizes this is what is going on, it still doesn’t stop you from spending way too much time in there. 

But in some places, game rooms are kept dark for another reason. They are dimly lit, and many times their windows are blacked out – but sometimes it is because they don’t want their local police to see what it is they are doing in there. This is quite common in many of your smaller towns outside of places like Las Vegas as they are normally running without any kind of a slot machine license. 

Many times even law enforcement personnel can’t get into these clubs as you have to know someone to gain entrance. You get to the door and there is some guy there asking you for references – or someone in the room has to know you. Only then can you gain access to a very small and dark room that has sometimes as many as 50 slot machines, many times even more. 

There is even an automated teller machine inside for those players that forgot to bring enough money, which would make you think that it is a viable and legal business. But as many people in these local towns that offer them know – most likely it is some form of the Mafia that is offering these slot machine services to their clients.

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