As we are constantly reminded, the 1980s have long since gone and whilst we love to keep many products and cultural references from that time alive and kicking, we also recognize just how important progress has been. Something that we often find very interesting is the fact that there are also a great many things within our culture which haven’t really changed that much over the last 30-40 years, and one of those is the casino.  Casinos have been around for a very long time, and in the US they really boomed in the 80s. So how much has the world of casinos changed, and what exactly has stayed the same?

Where We Have Seen The Changes

The internet has affected and altered almost every aspect of human life on Earth from the way in which we communicate to how we do business, and the world of gambling has been one of the hardest hit by the World Wide Web. Online casinos have given us the ability to bet from just about anywhere that we are, there are more markets in betting that have opened up and there is stiff competition online between various online casinos.

When you use an online casino with all of the games that we love, you can easily deposit your money online and play via mobile and PC. Online gambling is one of the fastest growing industries and this of course is a stark contrast to how things used to be, back in the day.  

How Things Have Stayed the Same

In terms of online casinos we have to remember that although the method by which we gamble has changed, the games and the odds really haven’t altered too much. In fact when we look at brick and mortar casinos, they really don’t look so different at all. You can still expect to find the roulette wheel, the blackjack and poker tables, baccarat and craps being played all over the world, just like we used to back in the 80s.

The only real differences which we see when we walk into a casino these days is the aesthetics, the clothes which people wear, the interior design and the tighter security, beyond that casinos generally operate just as they did back in the 1980s, and even back in the 1960s.  

When we stop and think about it, how could a casino really change beyond these aesthetics and the introduction of online gaming? Other than the arrival of new games and ways to win, of which we haven’t really introduced for a many decades, there isn’t much that could be changed, or indeed that needs to be changed.  

We still want to win money, we know that the games work well for the casino and the gambler, so why should these institutions change the way that they operate? The answer is that they shouldn’t, and this is why we don’t expect to see much change in the coming decades either.