Sunday, July 8, 2012

Epic Monopoly



WMS Gaming’s: Epic Monopoly is four, 5-reel, 80 line video slot with a 50-credit minimum and a max bet of 1,500 with a top jackpot of 30,000 credits.  It features a vertical 32-inch top screen and is the first premium slot from WMS gaming to feature the Super Multi-play base game.  Unlike most multi-game slots, WMS gaming’s minimum bet allows you to play all 4 games

In the base game, Bonus and Wild symbols replicate from the main reel to the 3 smaller reel sets. 

The Epic Multiplier is randomly triggered and can award up to a 5x multiplier on each reel.  Mr. Monopoly appears at the top of the screen, reaches into his hat and tosses out Monopoly Money with multiplier values on them.  If you receive a multiplier on the main reel, it will multiply any multiplier awarded on the smaller reels, up to 25x.  Example, you were awarded 2x multiplier on the 1st mini reel, then a 2x multiplier on the main reel, you’ll get a 4x multiplier on the 1st mini reel.

The Epic WILD feature is also triggered randomly and award up to 5 wild reels on each reel set.  Again, Mr. Monopoly appears at the top of the screen, this time activating an electrically power source of some kind thereby effecting the reels.  WILD reels awarded on the main reel are replicated to the 3 smaller reel sets

Bonus Rounds

Epic Wheel Bonus is triggered when 3 or more bonus symbols appear on any reel set and award 1-4 spins on the Epic Reel.  1 spin on the wheel is awarded to each reel set with 3 or more bonus symbols.  The wheel can award credits, a respin at 2x, “Epic Chance”, “Epic Free Spin” and “Around the Board” bonuses.

Epic Chance Bonus has you pick 1-5 chance cards for credit prizes, 25 epic free spins, 10 dice rolls around the board or up to a 5x multiplier and an additional pick

Epic Free Spin bonus gives you 5, 10 or 25 free spins.  You can also win additional spins during the free spin round

Around the Board Bonus allows you to move Mr. Monopoly around the game board through awarded dice rolls.  First you spin the wheel to determine how many rolls you’ll get on the playing board. Depending on where you land, you will be awarded multipliers or additional mini games. 

To roll the dice, you simply touch the dice on the screen.  When you land on a property, you’ll get to pick from 5 property cards to determine your prizes, which consist of credits, multipliers and/or extra rolls

If you land on a Railroad, you get to pick from 4 different colored trains, which will award either credits, multipliers, extra picks and/or extra rolls

If you land on the Electric Company, you watch Mr. Monopoly’s dog Scotty run in a hamster wheel to determine what your credit award will be.

If you land on Water Works, you pick between 3 different water valves, which will award credits and/or additional rolls
 

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Attack From Mars/Revenge From Mars



WMS's Attack from Mars/Revenge from Mars: is a 5 reel 25 or 40 pay line penny video slot. The game takes advantage of WMS's Sensory Immersion Technology, with the trademark motion chair, Bose surround sound speakers and crystal clear comic style graphics.

Like the early reviewed Clue Slot by WMS, Mars is enabled by The Players Life Web Service, which allows players to track bonus features and additional content online.

Base Game:

Play as the Martians and destroy earth, or the Humans and protect our planet in this double feature slot. Both games feature wild reels and several bonus games. The multi game functionality allows you to select your game theme for a more personalised experience.

Bonus Games:

Both themes feature 2 bonus rounds each:

Attack From Mars: There Goes the Universe Bonus and Duck it's Chicken

Revenge From Mars: Mars Kneads Women and Abducting Makes me Hungry

Wild features also feature heavily in both games and are awarded randomly at any time in the base game.

There Goes the Universe Bonus: select from Martian ships to reveal credit awards. Certain ships reveal a Mother Ship Feature which awards a random multiplier. If you select a Tractor Beam ship, the spaceship will fires a tractor beam at one of Earths landmarks. You must attempt to stop the the ship stealing the landmark by picking from a group of missiles. If the missile reveals hit then the Earth is saved and the bonus continues.

Duck it's Chicken Bonus: receive an unlimited amount of free spins. Much like  the classic space invaders game, each winning spin launches a chicken at an invading line or martians. Once the martians are close enough you must pick and hopefully push them back and re trigger the bonus.

Mars Kneads Women:  you control an alien robot that is scouring the city to collect women to take back to your home planet. Pick from various city items such as cars and buildings to find women hidden inside. Avoid the Sergeant as he ends the bonus.

Abducting Makes Me Hungry Bonus: 2 martian ships hover above the city. Select from fast food stores to reveal credit awards. If a selected store contains a bad item it causes your ship to abort its mission and leave the bonus.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Aladdin & The Magic Quest





WMS Gaming’s Aladdin & the Magic Quest is a 40-line, 5-reel video slot available in both penny and nickel denominations.  For the penny machine, the minimum bet is 40 credits with a max of 400 credits.  The nickel machine has a 20-credit minimum with a 100-credit max.  It offers either a 750,000 credit top award or a Wide Area Progressive Jackpot.

Aladdin introduces the Sensory Immersion 2.0 motion chair, which not only offers surround sound speakers and a rubble seat but the chair actually moves during 2 of the 3 bonus games and is aligned perfectly with what is going on in the game.  Regardless if you are playing minimum or max credit, it does not affect the ability or the frequency of the bonus rounds that utilize the Sensory Immersion motion chair.

For those of you that suffer from motion sickness, fear not.  Before you begin the game, you have the option of choosing how intense you would like the ride experience to be.  In addition, you are also able to adjust or turn off said intensity while in game.  You can find these options on the bottom left of the screen.

The base game has 5 Magic Features that randomly triggered at any time.
  • Aladdin’s Wilds changes all Aladdin symbols into wilds and pay at 2x
  • The Scatter pay awards any win as a scatter pay
  •  Win Multiplier will take all wins and apply 5x, 10x, 15x, or 25x to them
  • Wild Reels turns 1 up to all 5 reels wild
  •  Instant Bonus is self explanatory


Bonus Rounds – 3 scattered Genie lamp bonus symbols trigger the bonus round.  You start off entering a cave with a waterfall and 3 doors above it representing the 3 bonus rounds available.  You must choose from 10 enchanted stones to determine which bonus you will play.

Mystical Spins bonus is a free spin bonus.  You have a 3 in 10 chance of picking this bonus.  The game takes place in front of the same waterfall where you selected which bonus game you would play.  You are given 10 free spins with all wins paid at 2x or 4x multiplier.  During the free spin bonus you have the opportunity to win additional spins should you get another 3 scattered Genie lamp bonus symbols. 

Aladdin’s Magical Flight Bonus makes full use of the Sensory Immersion chair as it fly’s you through the Arabian city on a magic carpet while it’s under attack.  You have a 4 in 10 chance of picking this bonus game. 

The bonus begins with a brief story about how the genie has been terrorizing Aladdin’s city hence the reason for the quest.  During the flight, you will be asked to select from a collection of items ranging from scorpions, cherubs, arks and henchmen.  Your selection will determine if you move on in the bonus round as well as win credits, multipliers or trigger the Sky Bonus. 

Sky Bonus is a bonus within a bonus.  Here you touch the lamp to determine which diamond will be selected.  The goal is to avoid the fireballs, which selected lamps turn into after they’ve been chosen.  Diamond awards increase in value the more you collect.  The Sky Bonus continues until you select all of the diamonds or land on a fireball.

Clash of the Genie Bonus  - Here you also enjoy the Sensory Immersion chair when you fly into battle with the Genie on the magic carpet.  The goal is find the princess.  To do this, you need to disarm the Genies armor by selecting various jewels located on the armor.  Each piece of armor removed increases the odds of finding and rescuing the princess, which awards you a 100x credit multiplier bonus.  You have a 2 in 10 chance of selecting this round.

Again the bonus starts with a brief story about how Aladdin has discovered the Genie’s lair and will do battle with him to save the princess.  The four pieces of armor are located on the Genies wrists, chest and forehead.  Select the piece of armor you would like to attach and Aladdin will use magic to freeze the genie.  This will give you the chance to select from a collection of gems located on the armor.   The gems will award you either credits, advance you further in the bonus and destroy the armor or find the Genie lamp.  The lamp will reduce the number of gems to choose from on the Genies armor and increase your odds of finding the princess.

Each additional piece of armor you defeat applies a credit multiplier to every credit award selected during that battle.  The more pieces of armor you defeat, the higher the multiplier, up to 4x.  Defeating all 4 pieces of the Genies armor gives you the best chance at finding the princess, ending the bonus round and send the Genie back into his lamp.

The progressive jackpot is won when 5 progressive symbols appear on line 1 at Max Bet.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Stuntman Sam


Aristocrat Gaming’s Stuntman Sam is a 5 reel video slot available in both 1c and 2c denominations. The min bet is 40 credits and a max bet of 200. The game utilizes Aristocrats Reel Power technology; here you buy reels as opposed to lines. This creates a unique experience as a greater number of pay combinations can be awarded.

The slot is housed in the Viridian cabinet with a 22 inch play screen and 32 inch top box display for bonus games and jackpots.

Stuntman Sam features 3 progressive jackpots that do not require max bet to be hit. As you increase your wager, the amount you can win on each progressive increases proportionately.

The Minor resets at $25

The Major $100

And the Grand Jackpot resets at $500

Base Game:

In the base game, 10 to 15 spins can be awarded randomly and if a Stuntman symbol substitutes in  a win, then a multiplier of 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x or 10x times will be awarded.

Bonus Rounds:
Electric Claw Feature: a claw is lowered into a vending machine and randomly awards credit values.

Sam's Reel Feature: is awarded when 3, 4 or 5 Stuntman symbols are hit on any reels. Depending on how many symbols hit, will result in 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively. The Reel Feature is played out on a separate bonus video reel with 3 reels and a single pay line. Here you can be awarded multipliers, credits, free spins or the Stunt Bonus Game.

Pick a Card Bonus: like the previous bonus, 3, 4 or 5 Stuntman symbols will result in 3-5 picks of a 21 playing card board. Prizes include credit awards and the Stunt Bonus Game.

Stunt Bonus: Giving name to the slot, this features 5 unique stunts for Sam to attempt.


  • Knife Stunt - Sam is tied to a spinning wheel and you must throw knives at the board, to award multipliers.
  • Dive Stunt - You select from 3 pools for Sam to dive into, through the dive random credit awards are given and the chosen pool awards a multiplier.
  • Plane Stunt - Sam flies through small stunt gates and awards credits for each successful pass.
  • Bike Stunt - You must select how many buses Sam will jump on his motorcycle. The more he jumps the higher the credit awards.
  • Cannon Stunt - Sam is launched from a cannon and the more feet he covers the more credits are awarded.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Grease





Bally's Grease: is a 10 reel 50 pay line video slot and is the first release from Bally's to use the double play feature. This enables players to play 2 games at once, hence the game is actually two 5 reel 25 pay line games on the one screen.
The game is available in penny denomination only and has a 300 credit maximum bet and a minimum bet of 60 credits. This activates all pay lines makes you applicable for all of the bonus rounds and 4 of the  progressive jackpots.

The game is themed after the 1978 movie of the same name and features many of the songs and video clips from the film. The machine can be played as a stand alone or set in a slot bank of up to 6 machines, which is often found set into the body off the famous Grease Lightening car.

Base Game:

During the base game the T-Birds Mystery Wilds can be activated, This awards anywhere from 2 to 10 wild symbols

Bonus Rounds:

Year Book Bonus: is triggered when you hit 3 year book symbols on the 2nd,3rd and 4th reels on either game.
The Rydell High Year Book is then displayed and you use Bally's U-Spin technology to flick over the pages of the book to select your bonus game at random.

The One That I Want Free Games Bonus: you receive 5 free games on both screens and includes stacked wilds that move from right to left increasing your winnings for each spin.

Dance off Free Games Feature: you are awarded up to 50 free games. In this bonus you interact with the I-Deck to select the dance moves you want the characters to use. This can award a 5x your total bet, a wild reel or 2 free additional games.

How Cool Are You Bonus: you select a grease themed car on the I-Deck and you then watch your car race atop the display screen to either award credit values or one of the 4 progressive jackpots.

Too Pure to be Pink Bonus: this bonus is themed after the Pink Ladies slumber party. Here you are given 3 selections of wigs, make up and jewelery, to award credit values or multipliers.

Your Pick Bonus: you are given a choice of either The Pink Lady, Rydell High or T-Bird themed bonus. After which you pick your favourite character from that theme, which awards credit values.

The top progressive jackpot can be won when 10 scattered Grease symbols appears on any pay line when playing max bet.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

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.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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.