Good Afternoon Australia

For the last couple of weeks I've been waking up to glorious sunny days. Having fled the rat race of Melbourne some 6 months ago, my partner & I are now official sea changers. This entire shift of lifestyle and relocation came about in 10 days. Personally I'd just had enough of Melbourne City gridlock, the escalating drug problems, especially in the CBD. This combined with the ever growing incidents of road rage was the icing on the cake.

Melbourne Australia is a beautiful city, its architecture, parks, gardens and historical buildings mix it with the ultra modern landscape is unique to Melbourne's cosmopolitan identity. Melbourne has a broad diversity of cultures who do provide an experience that's worth its weight in gold.

Going out on a limb here I think the big issue; the contributing cause, is everyone has become so paranoid about our anti-discrimination laws. Rules such as these are needed, they obviously protect people & groups of people. However, it seems that the laws that were passed to protect, have become the nemesis of the laws to serve and keep the community safe.

If you happen to start reading my blog you'll soon realise I have a habit of going out on tangents, still it makes for more interesting reading, hey!

I was saying, we've moved down the coast. This blog, the web site and other areas of my online businesses is my full time job. My office, more favourably referred to as my cave, is where I spend a great deal of my time. It's not unusual for me to be heading the bed at 7am most days. Hence I'm crawling out of bed around mid afternoon. I know it's a tough job but someone has to do it...

Well that's about it for me right now, it's Friday night and time to throw some rags on and head down the local for a few ice cold beers.

Show Me The Money!

What could you do with $500AUD?

Well listen up cause we're giving away a fistful of dollars to one (1) of our games forum members.

If you live in Australia and your at least 18 years old then your in with a chance. This has to be one of the easiest ways to earn a buck or should I say $500AUD bucks!

The details are available at Grand Opening Cash Competition

Win a Free iPod Competitions

If your an Aussie, live in Australia & are 18 years or older then you can enter our Free iPod Competitions. From the 14'th August 2007 till the 14'th of November 2007 every Aussie member who is spotted playing any of our free casino games has the chance to win a brand new Apple iPod for free. We wont even charge you postage. So the more the you play the better chance you have of owning one of these handy portable music gizmo's.

Remember the only catch at Raw Funk Games is our free online games.

Online Pokies & Aussie Slot Machines

Since our free games site opened we've been getting a lot of hits for people searching for free online pokies. These by the way are an Aussie slang word for slot machines. Pokies are actually multi-line bonus slots or if you prefer video bonus slots. Have I confused you yet? Anyway, getting back to the reason for this post.

Being a bit of a Pokies fan I thought it might be a good idea to write an article on slots machines, add some history about where they came from, who invented the slot machine and some other generalised background on the highly popular game of slots. Did you know that slot machines are the bread and butter for land based casinos? If your an Aussie you'll understand why all the RSL clubs, League Clubs, pubs and pokie venues can afford to have the plush surroundings.

Yep it's all thanks to those not so humble one arm bandits!

The date line 1894 San Francisco. Mr Charles Fey a mechanic from the small confines of his basement invented the first slot machine. He gave it the name of Liberty Bell. Apart from Mr Fey being a resourceful fellow he was also an astute business man. Within a short period of time Mr Charles Fey had contacted every casino and gambling house in San Francisco and was now renting his slot machine the Liberty Bell to each of these establishments.

In 1907 Mr Fey received an offer from the Mills Novelty Company to a partnership which he accepted. Over the years the Liberty Bell would received a number of re-designs and upgrades, although fundamentally it still retained the same principles of the original slot machine. To mark a milestone for the Liberty Bell slot the Mills Novelty Company produced a line of slot machines that had elaborate head casts in shapes such as Indian Heads, Lions and other worldly identities. At the time the slot machine body had been produced in wood was now give a cast iron body. Adding the Liberty Bell was also made silent. It was then referred to as the Silent Bell.

Over the years like most things progress and demand has fuelled re-invention of the slot machine. The greatest influence to hit the slot machine industry was the micro chip. Companies such as Ballys, IGT and others developed slot machines that used a micro processor to operate the slot reels and pay-outs. However, back then these slots only consisted of 1 line, 3 line and later 5 line pay-outs.

Believe it or not but the Aussie Pokies were the main driving force behind the development of the multi-line bonus slots machines that are now available in both land based casinos and their online casino counterparts. These slots are more commonly known as bonus slots and are called Pokies or Pokie Machines in Australia.

Pokies generally offer free spins. The current pokie machines in Australia are now offering elaborate bonus rounds as well. Bonus slots consist of the standard 5 reels and range from 9 pay lines, 15 pay lines, 20 pay lines, 25 pay lines, 30 pay lines, 40 pay lines, 50 pay lines. Though the most common pay lines available on Aussie Pokies are the 20 line machines.