Scratch games are a main subcategory of casual casino games and offer players a quick instant-win format that serves as the perfect palate cleanser between major gaming sessions. Euro Palace Online Casino offers a number of scratch games including scratchcards and gamified scratch games that push the limits of the scratch mechanic.
The birth of scratchcards got off to a rocky start. Several gaming companies had experimented with early versions of the game in the 1970s with mixed success. The problem was that these early examples were created without the use of any true randomization ensuring that there was a huge disparity in win locations and amounts leading to widespread mistrust of the format. However, in 1987, AstroMed patented the first scratchcards to incorporate high volumes and computer randomisation. The combination of these two added variables was exactly what the format need and as win amounts and locations began to stabalise, the popularity of the game format soared.
As the 1990s rolled around and the digital revolution gave way to mass adoption of the internet, the first iterations of online casino gaming were beginning to be established with gaming development giant, Microgaming leading the early charge. Due to their simple format and the limitations of early internet connections, scratchcards became the perfect game type to begin to test the boundaries of what was possible in the online sphere. Today, although most major online casinos offer scratchcards under a casual casino games category, there are still specialty scratch casinos that exclusively offer scratchcards to their players.
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