Recreational gambling machine with roulette game, being of the type of gambling machine which functions by means of introducing coins and, optionally, bank-notes, said gambling machines having two games associated together, the gambling machine (1) having an electronic game (2) and a roulette game (3), along with a touch-sensitive screen (4), in such a way that the roulette wheel (9) is driven by a pair of motors (10) and (11) with a common shaft (12), which have opposite directions of rotation, and the transmission of the movement from the common shaft (12) for both motors (10) and (11) to the shaft (13) of the roulette wheel (9) is materialised via a reducing gear (14).