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How the Roulette Wheel Shaped Online Roulette Design
Magnavox’s Odyssey put a translucent roulette wheel on family televisions in 1972. Online roulette screens are still working on the puzzle that plastic overlay set out to solve.
Roulette hands screen designers an awkward brief: half the game is a spinning wooden wheel, the other half a grid of numbers printed on felt. Home consoles, handhelds, PCs and live casino streams have each had to decide which half gets the screen and which half gets pushed to the edges. Meanwhile the wheel itself has barely moved on since the Blanc brothers took the single zero to Bad Homburg in the middle of…
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