Mission Impossible

Aristocrat Gaming's Mission Impossible is a 5 reel, penny video slot based on the 1996 movie staring Tom Cruise.  The slot is a Reel Power game, an Aristocrat exclusive system, where players buy reels instead of lines, leaving open the scatter pay option on all winning combinations.

The game has a minimum bet of 50 credits and a maximum of 150. To be eligible for the Grand jackpot you must be playing max bet, as with most slot machines.

The game features 4 progressive jackpots. The Grand jackpot which starts at $250,000, the major starting at $750, minor starting at $75 and finally the mini starting at $20. All progressive jackpots can be won during the Big Bang bonus feature.

Once again, this release from Aristocrat utilises the Verve HD cabinet, here you have full control over the adjustable 3D panoramic digital audio.  The games full HD 1920x1080 graphics play out on the 31.5 inch portrait monitor and also features an LCD programmable button deck.

Bonus Rounds:

Masquerade Bonus: is triggered randomly. In this bonus all IMF agents reveal their true identity. A layer of the reels is removed, much like the rubber masks from the film and all agents on screen are replaced by just one of the IMF agents.

Sharp Shooter Bonus: is a random bonus where up to 5 wilds are shot on to the reels by a gun in the foreground of the screen and results in bonus credits.

Stealth Reels Bonus: In this bonus, reels 1 and 5 are replaced with multipliers and wild symbols. This can result in huge payouts as all lines receive either a wild or multiplier.

High Speed Showdown Bonus: This is triggered with 3 scattered Mission or High Speed symbols. You are briefed on your mission objectives and are then taken into the tunnel scene from the movie's finale. Here you must find the rogue IMF agent Jim Phelps. You are given 4 picks of 9 panels on top of the train. Each panel contains credit values. Find Jim Phelps within your picks and you are awarded all credit values and the round starts again. If you can do this 4 times, you are given a 5th selection, which can result in further credit values or a bet multiplier for the bonus.

Black Vault Bonus: This round is awarded with scattered Mission or Black Vault symbols and awards up to 10 free games. During this round you watch an animated version of the infamous CIA break in, as you attempt to recover the NOC list and download agent identities to the reels.

Big Bang Jackpot Bonus: Can be triggered at any time during the base game, This is where you have the chance to win one of the four progressive jackpots The jackpot bank is converted into a large bomb. You must match three or more jackpot lights before the time runs out and the bomb explodes. Whatever part of the bomb remains is the jackpot you are awarded.  Once the time runs out you are also awarded an additional 1,000 credits.

Monopoly Advance to Boardwalk

WMS Gaming's Monopoly Advance to Boardwalk: is a 5 reel mechanical slot with an LCD overlay that enhances the game with 3D graphics and when triggered, allows touch screen capabilities for bonus rounds. The game is available in 40 line penny and 20 line nickel versions.

WMS Gaming first introduced Monopoly slots to casinos 10 years ago. These games were an instant hit when the first four themes were released in 1998.  Advance to Boardwalk, takes Monopoly slots where they've never been before, the carnival. Not only does the game feature a total of seven different bonus games, but it also has five progressive jackpots and a top progressive that starts at $100,000

The theme of Advance to Boardwalk is a carnival and players can choose to visit during the day or at night, in two separate slot machines. Although the artwork and symbols differ between the Day and Night versions, the game play is the same for both.

The carnival theme extends through the entire slot. The symbols on the reels include traditional carnival food like popcorn, pretzels, carnival rides and games and the characters from the Monopoly game including Mr Monopoly and Scotty the Dog.

Base Game:

Three or more bonus symbols in the Day or ticket to ride symbols in the Night theme trigger the Free Spin Bonus. You're awarded 10 free spins for three scattered symbols, 15 free spins for four and 25 free spins for five symbols. During the Free Spin round, the background changes to a first person view of a roller coaster ride. You get to experience the climbs and drops as the car twists and turns.  The ride continues through all of the free spins.

Bonus Rounds:

The game has 6 bonus games that can be triggered randomly or in the case of the progressive jackpots, are based on line pay combinations.

Bell Ringer Wild Bonus: is randomly triggered at the start of any spin. The announcer's voice calls out "Advance to Boardwalk!" and while the reels spin, Mr Monopoly strides along the boardwalk until he reaches the Bell Ringer booth. If he hits a reel and rings the bell, the reel turns wild for the spin. If he rings a bell twice, you are awarded a Prize Pick. Once Mr Monopoly has finished ringing the bells, the reels stop spinning and the line pays are awarded.

Water Works Balloon Race Bonus: You select one of five water guns below a Monopoly character on the reels. The guns shoot water at the character's face and fill the balloons until they pop. You are then awarded credit amounts based on the order you finish and a first place finish awards a Prize Pick Bonus.

Symbol Toss Respin Bonus: is randomly triggered after a spin where all wins use a single symbol. The display moves along the boardwalk until it arrives at the Ring Toss booth. Mr Monopoly enters the screen holding several Ring Toss symbols in his hand. The reels dim except for the winning symbols. Mr Monopoly tosses the rings on the reels and where they land, that reel changes to the winning symbols. The reels then respin with all of the winning symbols held in place and the new pays are then awarded. This can repeat up to 7 times, with the new rings and winning symbols added each time. If Mr Monopoly tosses a Prize Pick symbol, the player will advance to the Prize Pick bonus round.

Balloon Pop Bonus: you touch the screen to throw virtual darts at the balloons to pop them. The balloons can award credit amounts, progressive coins or burst. You keep popping balloons until you either collect all three Progressive coins and advance to the Prize Pick or hit burst, which ends the bonus.

Coin Drop Bonus: Uses a physics based engine to simulate a pinball style game. You launch a coin and it falls down the board bouncing off pins and bumpers, until it lands in a cup. The coin can land in a Value Cup, which awards a credit value, or it could trigger other possible bonuses, credit modifiers and even a relaunch. If the coin lands in a Prize Pick cup, you move on to the Prize Pick bonus round.

Prize Pick Bonus:  You are taken to a screen where several prizes are displayed. On the initial level, the prizes are rubber balls. You touch a ball to reveal a credit value which can range from and amazing 600x to 3,500x the line bet or an upgrade to a higher level.

Levels 2 to 6 feature credit values, upgrades or one of the 5 progressives.
At maximum bet...

The Mini Prize resets at $100
The Mid Prize resets at $200
The Big Prize resets at $300
The Super Prize resets at $500
The Grand Prize resets at $1,000

The Top Progressive jackpot is a wide area progressive that resets at $100,000.  You can win this when you play maximum bet and five Advance to Boardwalk symbols land on the center pay line.

Jaws

Aristocrat's Jaws is a 5 reel, 25 line video slot. The game is available in 1, 2, and 5c denominations. The minimum bet is 35 credits, which covers all 25 pay lines and the 10 credit ante bet that makes you eligible for the bonus games and multipliers.

The machine is heavily themed to the film with the famous fishing boat sitting atop the slot bank. Above this is a large LCD monitor that alternates between the current Hyperlink Jackpot values and showing clips from the original film. Each individual machine is trimmed with a water affect and topped with a buoy that sways back and forth and rings its bell when the jackpot game is triggered. The speakers that surround your chair play the iconic music from the film and even look like shark gills.  Lastly, your spin button is an embossed shark tooth.

Base Game:

The Jaws symbol is wild and substitutes for any symbol (except the tooth) and it also multiplies all wins in which it substitutes 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 20x or even 100x.

Bonus Rounds:

When three scattered tooth symbols appear, you choose between the Player's Choice Free Games feature and the Dice Game feature.

Free Games Feature: You select 5, 10 or 15 free games. The lower the number of games the better chance at a higher multiplier. Anytime a tooth symbol appears during the free games, a bonus multiplier of up to 100x will be awarded. The Free Games feature can be triggered again during your free spins.

Dice Games Feature: You will play a total of three dice games. The screen displays a grid of nine dice with the eight outer dice being rolled. If one or more jaws symbols are rolled, then they are held and the remaining outer dice are rolled again. This continues until no more Jaws symbols are rolled or 8 Jaws appear. At the end of each of the three dice games, a prize ranging from 70 to 5,000 credits is awarded. The prize is based on the number of Jaws spun up.

At the completion of the three dice games, the middle die is rolled to possibly award three more games.

Bonus Rounds

The following 4 bonus rounds can be triggered randomly. The edge lighting on the slot bank changes from a calm blue to a blood red.

Golden Jaws Bonus: Here you come face to face with Jaws and touch his teeth to reveal credit awards. After three picks, you can collect your winnings or risk it and continue touching teeth and building up credits. If you continue and the shark's mouth closes, you will lose half of the credits you have accumulated. However, you could also win the top prize of 1,000,000 credits, when playing max bet.

Shark Hunter Bonus: You must find Jaws behind one of the 20 squares in the fish finder grid. You can select between 1 and 15 picks, but the fewer the picks, the bigger the reward.

With 15 picks, the win is 700 credits
10 picks awards 1,000
5 picks awards 2,000
2 picks awards 5,000
And 1 pick, you win 10,000 credits.

The credit awards are then multiplied by the bet multiplier.  If you run out of picks before you find Jaws, you will receive a random credit consolation prize.

Feeding Time Bonus: Credit prizes are hidden behind 20 movie icons including sharks, swimmers and images from the film. The prizes range from 10 credits per line bet to 10,000 credits per line bet.  There's also a 5x multiplier available.

You can select two icons to reveal your prizes. At random intervals Jaws will appear and he will eat the icons. You can choose immediately or can wait and hope that Jaws eats the smaller prizes, giving you better odds at a larger win.

Hyperlink Jackpot Bonus: The screen changes to reveal a game board with a shark game piece and a boat game piece. The center reels spin and the boat chases Jaws around the board. When the boat catches the shark, you win whatever jackpot level is indicated on the square; Mini, Minor, Major or Grand. If the shark and the boat don't meet after 30 spins, you will still win the Mini Jackpot.

The Mini resets at $15-$30
Minor resets at $75-$150
Major from $150-$300
And the Grand from $800-$1,600

Wolf Run 2

IGT's Wolf Run 2 is a 5 reel, 40 pay line video slot.  The game is available in several denominations starting at the penny level.  This game is the sequel of the original release in 2001.  The game is also available for 2 for 1 and 4 for 1 gaming meaning you can play two or four games at the same time on the same screen.  

As you would expect, Wolf Run 2 has several improvements from it's 2001 predecessor including enhanced sound, graphics and random wilds that hit frequently.  The game also has a 3D effect without the need for glasses that is achieved by layering 2 LCD screens on top of each other.  This has become a trademark feature of IGT games.

The most notable feature in Wolf Run 2 is the extra wild symbols which appear at random during both the base game and free spin bonus rounds.  These help to complete winning combinations often resulting in large payouts

Bonus Rounds

The bonus rounds are triggered when you collect 3 map books on reels 2, 3 and 4.  Once triggered, you will have the option to choose from the "Arctic Free Spins" bonus or the "Animal Tracking" bonus round.

Arctic Free Spin Bonus 

Choosing this bonus round will give you 10 free spins.  If you received a multiplier prior to choosing this bonus round, your free spin wins will also be multiplied by the same bet multiplier.  What's cool about this bonus is that you can trigger a subsequent bonus round by collecting three additional map books just like you did to enter this bonus round.

Animal Tracking Bonus

When you choose the bonus round, the screen will automatically change to a new page where you will be presented with sketches of different wild life.  Touch the animals you want to track and you receive instant credit awards.  The game continues until you hit the "Collect" icon which ends the bonus round.

Cashman Fever

Aristocrat Gaming's Cashman Fever: is a 5-reel, 50-line video slot with a 50-credit minimum bet and a 200 credit max bet.  The game is available in 1, 2 and 5-cent denominations.  Cashman Fever is the newest addition to the Mr Cashman Series of games that were first released by Aristocrat in 2002.

The base games is available in two distinct themes:

• Top Croc with a chef crocodile theme
• Amazon rain forest theme

Bonus Rounds: 

The game features 4 bonus rounds, all of which are triggered randomly, except for the progressive jackpot. The bonus features in this game have a high hit frequency and on average appear every 8 spins making the game very engaging.

Cashman Multiplier Bonus: Mr Cashman appears at the start of any spin and announcers an instant award multiplier from 2x to 10x

Cashman Added Wild Bonus: Mr Cashman appears and replaces all symbols on a reel with stacked Cashman symbols.  this can occur on 1 to all 5 reels and can result in huge wins.

Hold and Re-Spin Feature: Depending on the theme you are playing will determine the symbol you need to hit to activate this feature

• In the Amazon theme you need the EYE symbol
• The Croc Chef theme you are in search of the Croc's

Hit 4 of the said symbols on reel 1 and Mr Cashman appears and awards one to three re-spins.  This may randomly trigger the Cashman Nudge Feature.  Here Mr Cashman appears to randomly nudge the reel to reveal the fourth eye or croc symbol to trigger the free spins

Cashman Fever Cashpot:  As in the original Mr Cashman there is a four-level progressive jackpot, which can be won through a bonus event, the Cashman Fever Cashpot.

The jackpot starts at ...

• $35 for Mighty
• $70 for Mega
• $200 for Jumbo
• $2,500 for Super

Note these amounts are progressives and continually increase until won and then reset.

This is a different kind of progressive jackpot, your bet determines from which progressive pools you can win from.  There are actually 20 mini progressive jackpot pools.  As the game is 50-lines, a minimum bet of 50 credits is required.  The higher you bet per line the higher the jackpots you are qualified for.

The Cashpot Bonus Round is triggered by 5 scatter symbols.  The screen is converted to a grid of squares.  You must touch one corner square as a starting point to begin the game.  The squares spin like reels to reveal credit awards or Cashpot symbols.  The number of Cashpot symbols equals the progressive level.  A minimum of 3 is needed for the Mighty jackpot and 12 to trigger the Super jackpot.

3 Spins are awarded initially.  If one or more Cashpot symbol is revealed, those symbols are held and the spins remaining are reset to 3.  Credit prizes and Cashpot symbols connected to your original selection horizontally or vertically are awarded.  The feature ends after 3 consecutive spins without improvement or when all squares show a credit award of jackpot.

Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle

  

Aristocrat's: Tarzan Lord of the Jungle is a 30-line penny video progressive slot with a 50-credit minimum bet and a 150-credit max bet.

The game features four progressive jackpots include a mini jackpot starting at $10, a minor jackpot starting at $30, a major jackpot starting at $500, and the grand jackpot starting at $250,000. The Grand Jackpot can only be won when playing max bet.

The game is house in Aristocrat's Verve HD cabinet which is designed to provide the most ergonomically comfortable playing experience.  The 31.5 inch portrait monitor is fully adjustable and greatly reduces "Slot Machine Slump" pains because the screen is directly in your line of sight.

Bonus Rounds:

Tarzan Bonus is triggered at random.  One of the reels is replaced with stacked wild symbols and all future spins in the Tarzan bonus retain the wild symbols.

Stampede Bonus is also triggered randomly.  During this bonus a random number of scatter symbols appear above the reel and all symbols pay scattered in any direction.

Monkey Bonus: here a monkey swings across the screen turning random symbols to wilds.

Kerchak Bonus: awards 6 to 12 free spins, during which all spins are paid at either 2, 3, 5 or 10x multipliers.  This can be awarded in the Progressive Wheel bonus as well

Progressive Wheel Bonus:  is the best paying bonus the game has to offer. 3 or more scattered wheel symbols trigger the Progressive Wheel. Here you have the chance to win credit values, trigger the afore mentioned Kerchak bonus or hit the 4 progressive jackpots. Each spin of the wheel during this bonus round increase the credit values you can win, excluding the jackpots. All progressives can be won during this bonus except for the Grand which, as said earlier can only be won when playing max bet. 

Bombs Away

IGT’s Bombs Away is a 5 reel, 50 pay line, penny video slot. The game features 3D graphics, The MegaFX surround sound, immersive audio seating, stacked wilds in the base game, two bonus rounds and 6 progressive jackpots, including a wide area progressive.

In the base game, stacked wild bombshells can be awarded on any pay line, which pay high credit values.  A max bet of $3.00 is needed to be eligible for the top progressive jackpot.  This is awarded by hitting 5 Bombs Away icons on the top pay line.

Bonus Rounds:

The bonus rounds are triggered when you hit 3 scattered bomb symbols. You then get to choose which bonus round you will enter by picking one of the bombs. You will either be awarded a credit value or enter a bonus round 

Top Secret Bonus: In this bonus, you get to press a button on the touch screen, which in turn spins the wheel on top of the machine. The wheel stops on a varying amount and you awarded this multiplied by your line bet. The higher the bet, the more you win.

As an added bonus, you may be given the option to choose one of five “Top Secret Files”. These contain either a credit value or one of the progressives, but not the jackpot.

Bombing Run Bonus: In this bonus, you are chosen to fly your fighter plane over enemy territory. You then must drop your bombs on “7” symbols and multipliers. You are given 7 flight runs, so this bonus results in high credit value awards.