The Americans call them slot machines, and the British call them fruit machines, but Down Under we know what they really are: Australian online pokies. And Australian online pokies means exciting online gambling entertainment that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home.

The earliest mechanical gambling machines, going back to the 1890s and early 1900s, featured pictures of playing cards, and hence became known as "poker machines." Well, you know that Australians, with their penchant for slang, were not going to go around saying "poker machines" for very long. In Australia, we "throw some shrimp on the barbie" and we're "off to the pub to play the pokies." And "pokies" is the name that stuck.

Australians went off to the pub to play the pokies in droves, until the mid-1990s, when the online casino was invented. Now, instead of going down to the pub or the casino to play the pokies, we can stay home and let the pokies come to us. It's a lot more comfortable and a lot more convenient to play the pokies online, and besides, the online casinos could offer a much greater variety of Aussie pokies than could possibly fit into any pub or land-based casino.

All Slots Online Casino offers more than 200 online pokies games, including every kind of Australian online pokies imaginable. There are 3-reel online pokies. These look like the pokies your grandmother played, but the insides are pure 21st century space-age technology. There are also 5-reel online pokies, featuring the coolest graphics and sound effects and up to 100 paylines. Then there are the progressive online pokies. These come in 3-reel and 5-reel varieties, and can pay out a progressive pokies jackpot of many thousands, even millions, of dollars on one lucky spin.

Every Australian online pokies game revolves around a particular theme or tells a particular story. That's part of what makes them so much fun to play. If you're the romantic type, you'll love playing Secret Admirer or Burning Desire. If you like to keep things simple and old-fashioned, there are traditional online pokies with cherries and lemons and playing cards. There are online pokies games with cats and dogs and lions and bears, online pokies that take you from the steaming jungle to the frozen tundra, from outer space to the deepest oceans, back to the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians and Romans and Incas and forward into the age of intergalactic space travel, plus online pokies featuring all of the major sports.

Online pokies are the most fun, of course, when you're winning real money jackpots. But the truth is that with all the interesting themes and stories, and the graphics and sound effects that go with them, the online pokies are always fun to play, even on those unfortunate days when you're not winning so much.

Play Australian online pokies at All Slots Casino, and you'll see what online gambling fun and excitement is all about!