Bingo is believed to have been invented in Italy in the 1500s. A derivative of a lottery game called “Il Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia,” Bingo bounced around Europe for centuries as both a game of entertainment and education before eventually making its way to North America in the 1900s.
“Beano” as it was called then was growing in popularity, but it wasn’t until one faithful day when a player mistakenly cried out “Bingo!” that the game got the name that catapulted it to wide spread fame.
By the mid 1900s the game was a hit all around the country and it made its way back to Europe under its new name.
Thought of as the best classic board game, Bingo was very popular from the 1950s to the 1970s, but it began to taper down from the 1980s onwards. It is not clear why exactly bingo experienced a dip in popularity, but it means that those growing up in the 1980s and 1990s did not grow up with bingo being seen as a trendy activity in which to partake. So this could explain why bingo became less popular in that time period.
The fact that bingo has not had sustained popularity over the past 20 years means that they have had to work incredibly hard to market their game and do whatever they can to boost the visibility as well as the popularity and public opinion about bingo. In this way bingo has a lot of experience in terms of marketing itself as a game and understanding how best to do this.
Bingo used to have an image as a game that old people played –only because current generations associated the game with their grandparents, as it was popular when their grandparents were younger. But bingo has been creative in their methods of rebranding in a way that is accessible to the younger generations.
Playing the latest bingo games online is just one way in which they were able to do this. The younger generations are much more comfortable playing games online than in real life, so the move online was a good one.
Bingo has since enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, attracting people of all ages, from all walks of life and from all parts of the world. Making Bingo available over the internet was probably the biggest and most important development in the game’s history since that player incorrectly shouted out its name back in the early 10900s.
Moving online has also helped create new variants of the game as well. Technology has provided the platform that has allowed game developers to offer new more interesting Bingo games including U-Pick’Em Bingo, which closely resembles the game of Keno and Progressive Bingo, which offers players the chance to win a big jackpot.
Online Bingo has also had the added advantage of allowing operators to offer the game and both higher and lower stakes. Players can play games for as little as a few pennies, but also hvee the chance to win life changing money playing the game they love from the leisure of the own home, or even out and about on their mobile devices.
