Slots Adventures

ah, so today i decided to wander straight into All Slots.  this is Halloween, the last day of the english harbour slots tourney on the wheel of chance.  the new tourney starts tomorrow, so i have a bit of time to kill, and i was wondering how the microgaming fruit machines stacked up compared to those at intercasino.

the first of the fruit machines i’m testing out is the Pandemonium game.  the slots part of the game is a three reel, single payline machine.  there is both a nudge feature, and a hold feature that are active from time to time.  you can’t count on the hold feature, it just shows up randomly.

the nudge feature is also random, and shows up in increments of one to four nudges usually, although it can go as high as 15 nudges. 

the game itself has a screen that reminds me of a pinball machine, with flashing values for tons of different bonus games and counters.  for instance, there is a trail counter that increases every time you land a symbol that has a small number drawn in the bottom of it. 

so, there’s a cherry symbol, and a cherry “sub 2″ symbol, etc.  those numbers light up the lights in the “trail” across the bottom.  at the end of your spin, if the “trail held” light comes up, the lights in the trail stay on.  get far enough into the trail and you’ll win some bonus prizes. 

the fourth stop on the trail unlocks a bonus round where the names of bonus games flash in the digital display.  you press the stop button to land on one of them, and then play it. 

the trail is only one of the basic bonus features.  between the flashing lights, and the digital readout (when in doubt on this machine, read the digital display.  it shows the options you’ll have, often flashing options that you choose by pushing the “stop” button), there is a LOT going on with this machine.

 of course, there is a BIG bonus game on Pandamonium.  it’s the Wheel game, which is like the board game on the cryptologic ruit machines.  you spin, and land on a slice of the wheel that either lets you play a bonus game, adds to your cash, or adds to your nudge total.  you can choose to collect your prizes at any point in the bonus game, or keep going in the quest for even bigger payouts.

the Pandamonium fruit machine (errr, Amusement with Prizes game?) has a rock and roll theme about it, and enough action is packed into this one game to entertain for hours on end.  while the slot itself is simple, figuring out the bonus games, and playing through them all can chew up quite a bit of time, and provide quite a bit of entertainment.

i’m glad that i went through the trouble to find the AWP games that microgaming has available.  they certainly are a sharp left turn away from most of the slots i’ve found online.