Need your input: Nostalgic Slot Survivors That You Still Play Today??

[dunover]

Right, was pondering last night about which are the oldest games us slotters still play regularly today?

Forget Bonanza, a mere baby at 8 years, I am thinking along the lines of IGTs Cleopatra, Bally's Thunderhorn, Aristocrat's Buffalo etc.

Sadly the old Cryptologic ones and other brands considered classics are long gone, like their Green Lantern and King Arthur versions.

Nextgen's Medusa would probably be the starting point and getting older from there, so many Netents wouldn't even make the list but maybe some Playtechs would as would some MGs.

So what developer/game can you positively state is still played today and in slotting terms is an old relic?

This is not about reminiscing over lost discontinued favourites or studios, simply the survivor class!

 

[conker]

For me the old Aristocrat slots like Where's The Gold and Queen of The Nile 2 are still as entertaining today as they were when I first played them (offline) 25 years ago.

Very very hard to pin down these days, but occasionally they can be found.

Great thread by the way

 

[Webzcas]

Oh my goodness, if I was still playing today. My top few would be in no particular order.

• Tombraider from Microgaming
• Great Blue from Playtech
• King Kong from Cryptologic - the one where you climb the tower and swat the bi planes in the feature round
• Gladiator from Playtech
• Thunderstuck from Microgaming

 

[dunover]

For me the old Aristocrat slots like Where's The Gold and Queen of The Nile 2 are still as entertaining today as they were when I first played them (offline) 25 years ago.

Very very hard to pin down these days, but occasionally they can be found.

Great thread by the way

Yes, I guess that they would have been the first ever online games back in 95-98 at the inception of online casinos. They simply adapted land-based existing slots to html or whatever to get in quickly, before designing the more complex bespoke games specifically for online platforms as things progressed.

There's no clear record apparently of which was the first online slot attached to a legit gambling site, but MG's Cash Splash was the first online with progressive back in '98 (still about??) and WMS' Reel 'em in was the first to have a second-screen bonus round although not sure when that appeared online and if it's still about.

 

[dunover]

Oh my goodness, if I was still playing today. My top few would be in no particular order.

• Tombraider from Microgaming
• Great Blue from Playtech
• King Kong from Cryptologic - the one where you climb the tower and swat the bi planes in the feature round
• Gladiator from Playtech
• Thunderstuck from Microgaming

LOL no nostalgia, we are asking which old games you can still play today online, not Cryptologic's King Kong as it's long gone. But yes, I know a few who miss the Cryptologics too!

Er..me and especially @KasinoKing

Sorry, another edit - IIRC Tomb Raider has gone too?

I think we need to rely heavily here on forum members still gambling/playing as they will know what's about still and what's been archived for good.

 

[itsme123]

I always find myself being drawn back to Thunderstruck when I am having a session, it was the slot I cut my teeth on and I always like to throw a few quid at it in the hope of repeating some of the great bonus rounds experienced in days of yore.

 

[dunover]

I always find myself being drawn back to Thunderstruck when I am having a session, it was the slot I cut my teeth on and I always like to throw a few quid at it in the hope of repeating some of the great bonus rounds experienced in days of yore.

Yes, that one is still about so I presume its clones like Spring Break, Ladies Nite, Jane Blonde etc. are too. That came out in 2003 so 22 years old the winner thus far lol

 

[Jono777]

Sadly none. However IGT's (original) Cleopatra which you mentioned was the BOMB! lol

 

[dunover]

Sadly none. However IGT's (original) Cleopatra which you mentioned was the BOMB! lol

First online slot I ever played, and I won handsomely which led me down the path of all these years.
WOW! It was actually released in 2002 land-based and online so only just beats TS1 - I thought it may have been a 90's one.

 

[YouTubeSlots]

Raging Rhino (Well its called Raging Rhino, but it doesnt compare to the original)

Montezuma (Well its called Montezuma but it doesnt compare to the original)

Dead Or Alive 1

Break The Bank Again

Flowers

Secret Of The Stones

 

[dunover]

Raging Rhino (Well its called Raging Rhino, but it doesnt compare to the original)

Montezuma (Well its called Montezuma but it doesnt compare to the original)

Dead Or Alive 1

Break The Bank Again

Flowers

Secret Of The Stones

Yes, they've all got at least a decade of history, pretty young compared to some others but in today's world of temporary and disposable that's a respectable life thus far.

 

[L&L-Jan]

Sizzling Hot, Ultra Hot, Power Stars

 

[dunover]

Sizzling Hot, Ultra Hot, Power Stars

Forgot all about Greentube/Novo games.

Those were in 2007 and 2008 so have also stood the test of time. Power Stars I play in the land-based sometimes.

 

[Jono777]

First online slot I ever played, and I won handsomely which led me down the path of all these years.
WOW! It was actually released in 2002 land-based and online so only just beats TS1 - I thought it may have been a 90's one.

First for me too, along with "Monopoly Here and Now"

All started when I spotted a small ad whilst reading the Sunday Newspapers (The People casino aka Games Xtra)

I still have the memory of it playing well the one day so upping to 40p on lunch break at work and hitting 5 Pharaoh Heads during the bonus, 300x IIRC which back then WAS a big win lol. Thing is also, those sort of hits did come in fairly regular, unlike now, which is a story for another time, another thread.

 

[paul7388]

Funny you started this thread as actually been playing an older slot regularly for last few weeks. Slot in question is Avalon.

No idea what made me open it as
never used to like it years ago and rarely played it.

Anyway been playing it at a few different sites last few weeks . Nearly every time had good playtime and well up on it as several withdrawals. Free spins trigger regular and some have actually paid really good.

Definitely plays better than I ever remember it doing years ago.

 

[Ginogenelli]

Hit this beast the other day on raging rhino.
I hadn't been on it for a long long time but the thought flashed thru my mind so I opened it up and the bonus landed on the second spin.
Hit that beast within the bonus

 

[dunover]

Hit this beast the other day on raging rhino.
I hadn't been on it for a long long time but the thought flashed thru my mind so I opened it up and the bonus landed on the second spin.
Hit that beast within the bonus

That isn't that old, appeared land based 2013 and online early 2014 but still over a decade old. So a junior but will no doubt stay around for many years.

Avalon is a good game, some nice base game hits and IIRC up to 7x multiplier randomly in FS.

 

[dunover]

First for me too, along with "Monopoly Here and Now"

All started when I spotted a small ad whilst reading the Sunday Newspapers (The People casino aka Games Xtra)

I still have the memory of it playing well the one day so upping to 40p on lunch break at work and hitting 5 Pharaoh Heads during the bonus, 300x IIRC which back then WAS a big win lol. Thing is also, those sort of hits did come in fairly regular, unlike now, which is a story for another time, another thread.

I hated the Monopoly games, except the one with the wheel where you could gamble a certain feature and possibly win big.

 

[brianmon]

I still occasionally play 100,000 Pyramid from IGT. I think that one is pretty old

 

[CongoGB]

Oldest one for me is my old avatar favourite Jack Hammer, but that's only 2010. Looks like JH4 is out in June - likely to be as crap as 3 was!

 

[dunover]

Oldest one for me is my old avatar favourite Jack Hammer, but that's only 2010. Looks like JH4 is out in June - likely to be as crap as 3 was!

Yeah, first two were OK, quite decent games.

 

[Webzcas]

Does Zeus count? Loved that game also and have the claim to fame for having the FIRST ever video of a win published here on Casinomeister, way back in 2011

Thread 'Winner Videos!'

Feb 28, 2011

Jackpot Party, provides youtube video clips of your wins

Here is my first



This casino rocks BTW. WMS slot games as the casino is owned by WMS and licensed in Alderney.

UK players only at the moment though

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[geordiecolin]

Jack and the Beanstalk was the slot that got my juices flowing. When the little skinny shit collected all of the keys in the bonus round with a bunch of free spins still remaining my heart would race in the hope of the reels filling up with burgundy.
Released in 2011

 

[dunover]

Does Zeus count? Loved that game also and have the claim to fame for having the FIRST ever video of a win published here on Casinomeister, way back in 2011

Thread 'Winner Videos!'

Feb 28, 2011

Jackpot Party, provides youtube video clips of your wins

Here is my first



This casino rocks BTW. WMS slot games as the casino is owned by WMS and licensed in Alderney.

UK players only at the moment though

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Shocking - not even 75x. EIGHT QUID a spin! How the other half lived lol

 

[Webzcas]

That's how I rolled. Get a win, then up the bet stake. Shame I don't have any of my old King King sessions recorded. £25 a spin and hitting the feature

That turned into my biggest ever cashout. Circa 40k. Those were the days

 

[YouTubeSlots]

I used to make bank of raging rhino back before it got rigged. I once turned a £50 deposit into £7000 on sky vegas, Starting on 80p spins and gradually going all the way up to £6 pound spins with the profit.
You could never replicate that sucess now on the current game.

I just love how were supposed to think these newer versions of the older games are the same.
When you can clear as day tell they are NOT.

I also once got a £10 deposit up to £3000 on montezuma starting on 30p spins and started upping the bets and hit a monster feature on 90p stake or 60p i cant remember it was on my old youtube channel.
But it went for over 300 spins in the bonus round.

Try play these games today,

And you will see they are just Dyson Vacuum cleaners pretending to be slots.

And your cash is the crumbs they hoover up in fast succesion!

 

[Jono777]

I did turn £144NDB in to £4.5K on Raging Rhino flash in a similar fashion to how you describe mate.

Now I'd remortgage the whole street and turn it into breadcrumbs

BUT - They are the same games

 

[YouTubeSlots]

I did turn £144NDB in to £4.5K on Raging Rhino flash in a similar fashion to how you describe mate.

Now I'd remortgage the whole street and turn it into breadcrumbs

BUT - They are the same games

All wms slots are gimped now, that includes Bruce Lee, monty, rhino.

I tell you what though, Raging rhino megaways is quite underated and has monster potential, But games like monty and Bruce Lee are so gimped now there not the same as they used to be.

I honestly find it hard to believe the 20 free spins even exists on Bruce Lee now, I think I have seen 2 screenshot of 20 free spins this whole time on the gimped version.

I hit it around 4 or 5 times on the old version.

Montezuma isn't to bad compared to rhino and still bonuses for me and sometimes gives a nice pay still.

Raging rhino is literally so high variance now that the base game has near to 0 action compared to the old days we're you would get some nice hits in the base. Not saying these things dont happen on the new releases but they are few and far between compared to how they use to be.

It's very noticeable.

With all wms slots these days it's just dead base game and prey it can bonus,the base games use to be so much better.

What I wouldn't do to bring back the autoplay button going grey when you've hit a bonus!

 

[Webzcas]

Crikey Bruce Lee! Loved that too. WMS made some killer slots. What was the one with the cows? Invaders of Moolah or something like that

 

[L&L-Jan]

So these just popped up:

Groovy 60s
Funky 70s
xxx 80s

Now that 80s name doesnt hit my brain, or that cell where its stored is covered with thc.

THose we lovely 40 pay line slots with stacked wilds.

 

[dunover]

Crikey Bruce Lee! Loved that too. WMS made some killer slots. What was the one with the cows? Invaders of Moolah or something like that

Invaders from the Planet Moolah, great game...

 

[dunover]

So these just popped up:

Groovy 60s
Funky 70s
xxx 80s

Now that 80s name doesnt hit my brain, or that cell where its stored is covered with thc.

THose we lovely 40 pay line slots with stacked wilds.

You mean The Super Eighties?

 

[SpinUk]

For me the early WMS like Wizard of Ozz. Was actually a really good bonus round on the monkeys and the Glenda random bonus could go mental too. In fact that was the slot that encouraged me to make my first online deposit.

Great Blue also, promised so much but never really paid much above 200x for me.

Rhino I still love but what casinos have that on crypto? Never see it. Did manage a few 1000x and it was a super reliable (mostly) not to take the piss for awarding a bonus round.

 

[09237653]

i used to play happy holidays (mg terminator 2 clone without the nerfed RTP) but all british got rid of it.

I would play firedrake on partycasino which is the first online slot game i ever played it still exists but for some reason it is minimum 90p spin now, it used to have 9p 18p 27p 36p etc.

 

[dunover]

For me the early WMS like Wizard of Ozz. Was actually a really good bonus round on the monkeys and the Glenda random bonus could go mental too. In fact that was the slot that encouraged me to make my first online deposit.

Great Blue also, promised so much but never really paid much above 200x for me.

Rhino I still love but what casinos have that on crypto? Never see it. Did manage a few 1000x and it was a super reliable (mostly) not to take the piss for awarding a bonus round.

Great Blue was the biggest scam game going, huge potential within the paytables, I never, ever saw a screenie with say 2k x bet. Rhino, I bonused at Whitebet once 5 times in 17 spins, biggest featureless run was 616 spins once, same casino lol.

 

[YouTubeSlots]

i used to play happy holidays (mg terminator 2 clone without the nerfed RTP) but all british got rid of it.

I would play firedrake on partycasino which is the first online slot game i ever played it still exists but for some reason it is minimum 90p spin now, it used to have 9p 18p 27p 36p etc.

I was playing happy holidays a few months ago on B.C Game.
It should still be there in there microgaming section unless its been removed and it was the shitty flash version also.

 

[YouTubeSlots]

Great Blue was the biggest scam game going, huge potential within the paytables, I never, ever saw a screenie with say 2k x bet. Rhino, I bonused at Whitebet once 5 times in 17 spins, biggest featureless run was 616 spins once, same casino lol.

You probably wont believe this but ive had bonanza do 4 bonuses in under 10 spins combined. All on min bet on some cadell site a few years back using a deposit bonus.

It did back to back bonuses and then bonused a couple of spins later, like 2 or 3 spins later and then bonused 1 or 2 spins after that bonus had finished. They were all shit mind you.
But to get 4 bonuses on that game in under 15 spins is insane and will never happen again.

I always felt that BTG slots played differently on the cadell network compared to the other casinos.
Cant fully explain why but they jsut did play differently.

Im bonused banned from them now after beating wagering there too many times, and making big cashouts. They dont like it when you win do they?

 

[YouTubeSlots]

Back when you could play amazing games at solid rtps ungimped, and have the chance of winning huge jackpots.

There will never be a site like this again. Weekly deposit bonuses with only 10X wagering.

I even remember seeing chopley in the chat one time and talking to him one time.

This is when WMS slots were in there peak.

This is me winning a jackpot over there. I can still remember to this day it was around 6pm after work and i was in an xbox live party playing call of duty with my close friends. I had bruce lee going on the laptop and i remember telling my friends i had just won like 3 grand. I dont think they believed me! haha

 

[SpinUk]

Back when you could play amazing games at solid rtps ungimped, and have the chance of winning huge jackpots.

There will never be a site like this again. Weekly deposit bonuses with only 10X wagering.

I even remember seeing chopley in the chat one time and talking to him one time.

This is when WMS slots were in there peak.

This is me winning a jackpot over there. I can still remember to this day it was around 6pm after work and i was in an xbox live party playing call of duty with my close friends. I had bruce lee going on the laptop and i remember telling my friends i had just won like 3 grand. I dont think they believed me! haha

Wagering a bonus on minimum stakes on the Jackpot party site was a joy. Bruce Lee I never did get the double bonus though

 

[SpinUk]

i used to play happy holidays (mg terminator 2 clone without the nerfed RTP) but all british got rid of it.

I would play firedrake on partycasino which is the first online slot game i ever played it still exists but for some reason it is minimum 90p spin now, it used to have 9p 18p 27p 36p etc.

Had a weird (good) hotmode too that i manged on terminator 2 but never the Christmas one. Also good for wagering.

 

[dunover]

Wagering a bonus on minimum stakes on the Jackpot party site was a joy. Bruce Lee I never did get the double bonus though

One of the best 3 online casinos of all time IMO. Sadly, never got Bruce's 20 spins either. @ChopleyIOM did once.

 

[YouTubeSlots]

One of the best 3 online casinos of all time IMO. Sadly, never got Bruce's 20 spins either. @ChopleyIOM did once.

Chopley got one of the best setups you can get also, he had 2 wilds locked in his first grid instead of 4 symbols, therefore your pretty much getting wildlines every spin, which was the highest paying symbol obvs.


Even if you were to hit the rare as fuck 20 free spins not only is that really Rare,

I would say from experience it's harder then 5 scatters on any dead or alive without a shadow of a doubt,

But to have it land with more than 1 wild locked in on your front 4 symbols makes all the difference in the payout every spin,
compared to the payout if it was 4 locked symbols, even the top symbol

I'm not sure wether anyone managed 4 wilds locked in on the first reel,

Could you imagine the pays each spin with 60 paylines and you have fucking 20 of them!!!!

I might go do some digging later at the jackpotparty youtube channel, see if anyone ever got that lucky.

Edit:

3 wilds locked



4 wilds landing in the bonus



After checking all the Bruce lee uploads on the jackpotparty website I can safely say that no one has hit 4 wilds locked in on the 20 freespins, which now has me thinking is it even possible to land that setup?

Because I'm sure if it was,
then it would of been on the jackpotparty channel if you look at all the different setups that have been uploaded there,
(pretty much every other setup possible)

Guess we will never know but I dont think it's possible personally to land 4 wilds locked and the 20 freespins

 

[dunover]

Chopley got one of the best setups you can get also, he had 2 wilds locked in his first grid instead of 4 symbols, therefore your pretty much getting wildlines every spin, which was the highest paying symbol obvs.


Even if you were to hit the rare as fuck 20 free spins not only is that really Rare,

I would say from experience it's harder then 5 scatters on any dead or alive without a shadow of a doubt,

But to have it land with more than 1 wild locked in on your front 4 symbols makes all the difference in the payout every spin,
compared to the payout if it was 4 locked symbols, even the top symbol

I'm not sure wether anyone managed 4 wilds locked in on the first reel,

Could you imagine the pays each spin with 60 paylines and you have fucking 20 of them!!!!

I might go do some digging later at the jackpotparty youtube channel, see if anyone ever got that lucky.

Edit:

3 wilds locked



4 wilds landing in the bonus



After checking all the Bruce lee uploads on the jackpotparty website I can safely say that no one has hit 4 wilds locked in on the 20 freespins, which now has me thinking is it even possible to land that setup?

Because I'm sure if it was,
then it would of been on the jackpotparty channel if you look at all the different setups that have been uploaded there,
(pretty much every other setup possible)

Guess we will never know but I dont think it's possible personally to land 4 wilds locked and the 20 freespins

There is a video somewhere of someone who got 3 wilds and a green? dragon in the first 4 spots on the 20 spins.

EDIT: Sorry, thinking back it was a wild on first row, one on second and a green dragon on each row too, not 3 wilds...

 

[kidgloves]

RIP Jackpot Party. Best site I've ever played at. Sadly the Life of Luxury series from WMS was never ported to other online casinos on the websites demise. Used to love a bit of Riches of Rome or Jungle Cats. Funnily enough I came across a pair of units on a cruise ship last year. I doubt you'd even find them in Vegas these days.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

One of the best 3 online casinos of all time IMO. Sadly, never got Bruce's 20 spins either. @ChopleyIOM did once.

Direct timestamped link

 

[dunover]

Direct timestamped link

I take it the SJP slot met its demise along with the casino? Or did it get renamed and rebranded?

 

[L&L-Jan]

You mean The Super Eighties?

Thanks mate hahahha, so frustrating when a simple name doesnt hit

 

[YouTubeSlots]

I take it the SJP slot met its demise along with the casino? Or did it get renamed and rebranded?

Pretty sure it was exclusive to jackpotparty i could be wrong, However i dont recall seeing it any were else.

 

[dunover]

Pretty sure it was exclusive to jackpotparty i could be wrong, However i dont recall seeing it any were else.

Shame, it was a brilliant colourful and entertaining slot with regular features.

 

[dunover]

Image below is my 5-scatters in Avalon free tourney in one of my old Viper casinos.
IIRC I ended up with third place and a £25 chip or something.