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Oriental Fortune is a five reel, five payline, and
five coin slot machine. The multiple paylines increase
your chances of winning. It has a wild symbol and
the maximum payout is 5,000 coins.
For every coin that you bet, you enable another payline.
You are paid out for winning combinations on enabled
paylines only.
Pharaoh’s
Gold is a 3-reel, three pay line slot machine. It may be played
in denominations of $.05, $.25, $.50, $1, and $5. This game represents
RealTime Gaming’s first three-reel machine with three pay
lines. To play, put money in the machine by clicking on the chips
in the lower right corner and press “Play 3 Credits.”
This will play the maximum bet (3 paylines and 3 coins), giving
you the maximum chance to win and automatically spins the reels.
If you’d like to play fewer lines, just select the lines
you want by using the “Bet One” button. When you have
the bet amount you’d like, just press “Spin Reel,”
and wait for a win. The Pharaoh’s Gold slot machine uses
two random animations. Watch out for the falling coconut or the
crazy eyes of the camel. Have you seen them yet? Located just
below the pay table is the payout line. This line will give line
win information such as number of lines that won and what each
line paid out (in credits). In addition, an Eye icon (wild) matches
any symbol on a paid pay line. If an Eye is used on a winning
payline, it morphs into the winning symbol. Pharaoh’s Gold
may also be configured as a local progressive game, where a 3-coin
bet (max bet) hitting three “Masks” on the pay line
3 wins you the local progressive jackpot total, which appears
just above the reels.
Surely when Charles Fey built his first slot machine in 1896 he never
could have envisioned where the contraption would travel and how it would
transmogrify. In fact, for a hundred years his innovation hardly changed
at all, except cosmetically. The external design, consisting of an ornate
metal box was wrapped around the mechanism and became fancier or plainer,
larger or smaller, in attempt to attract the eye. But as always, when
a player primed the machine with coins and pulled the handle, the reels
spun randomly and, governed by stoppers eventually came to a halt. Each
reel was decorated with a variety of symbols that, when matched according
to a pay schedule (printed somewhere on the face of the machine), the
player won; when no matching symbols appeared, the player lost.
Though Fey is given credit as the Father of the Slot Machine, prototypes
existed years before he came up with the idea of converting them into
gambling device--which he believed would enhance the profits on his sales
routes. These early "amusement devices" could be found in saloons where
polite society would not be exposed to them and where proprietors stood
on the edge of breaking the law.
These first apparatuses had a major drawback. They were designed in
such a way that after a certain number of coins were inserted the weight
of these coins would tip the scales and some of the stored coins from
previous play would spill out, thus providing a winner. It didn't take
long for street-smart players and wise guys to figure out that the coins
would come out automatically with a little pushing and shoving and slamming
the machine around. So it was back to the drawing board where clever
builders devised first a metal bar to help prevent "tilting," and then
came up with smaller devices that could be bolted to a counter top or
wall.
Meanwhile, in dignified establishments such as grocery stores and mercantiles,
a similar piece of equipment began popping up and being played by even
the snootiest of patrons. Called the trade simulator, this machine operated
much like other contemporary devices except that the winners produced
could be exchanged or traded for goods within the establishment--thus
the name "trade," perhaps a forerunner to the modern cents-off coupon.
Playing slots was (and is) both a tactile and sensory experience involving
the feel of the coins and the touch and pull of the handle. It involved
the sense of vision, the sense of hearing, and the innate sensation of
anticipation.
Winning and losing depended on a simple mechanism that included symbols
(usually fruit of some kind, perhaps bars and/or sevens, and of course
hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades, Fey's original choice) affixed to
the three reels and a shaft. With ten symbols per reel, the machine was
capable of a thousand possible combinations.
Light Speed
is a 3-reel 1-line system-wide Progressive slot machine with
a wild symbol. The pay table is displayed on the machine. The
progressive jackpot total is displayed just above the reels,
and re-starts at $700 every time the progressive jackpot is won.
This machine may only be played in denominations of $.25, and
only a 3-coin bet (max bet) allows the player to participate
in the progressive. The “Robot” symbol is also
“wild,” matching any non-“Light Speed” symbol.
You must make a maximum bet (3-coins) in order to qualify for
the bonus part of the game – the Light Speed meter, which
is represented by the lights going up both sides of the machine.
When you hit a “Light Speed” icon in the payline, then
the Light Speed meter is increased. A winning spin then pays
the payout on the payline multiplied by the level reached on
the Light Speed meter. The maximum multiplier for the Light Speed
meter is seven, and once a winning spin has occurred, the Light
Speed meter is set back to one. Win the progressive jackpot when
you hit three laser guns at the top (7x) level of the Light Speed
meter.
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