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av Gayle Mitchell

Here are 5 slot versions from Microgaming to explore online.

1) Pharaoh’s Tomb:
Travel to the ancient pyramids and Pharaoh's Tomb which sees a welcome return of the popular ancient Egyptian theme on a big 5 reel, 20 pay-line machine that has a second screen feature.
Players move through a series of 3 vast underground tombs carved from the living rock - each grander than the one before.  Each shelters 3 sarcophagi, or massive coffins and the player must find within one of these the key to life - an ankh or key that will open the door to the next tomb.
Every time a key is found, a random reward is received, but even the unsuccessful do not go away empty handed - the trigger bet is doubled as a consolation.
The significance of the keys lies in opening the path to greater riches in the following tomb until the lucky and successful player arrives in the most richly appointed and rewarding of them all. Here the trigger bet is multiplied by 100 x to deliver up to 100,000 coins on a maximum bet.
Other reward opportunities are present in the form of King Tut's golden death mask, which is the Wild symbol on reels 1 and 5 that can create wealth through doubling wins when a successful combination is achieved.

2) Dog Father:
This slot is a tongue-in-cheek trip to the doggie Underworld that gives a bright new face to this 20 line video slot with great opportunities to score through Wild, Scatter, Free Spins and great Bone-us features.
Making that Wild offer you won't want to refuse is the Dog Father in person, a tough but flashy bulldog with a taste for expensive cigars and big bankrolls. When he appears, he substitutes for all other symbols except scatter and bonus, helping players to build up a veritable cache of cash. You'll be pleased to see the Scatter flea too. It triggers 13 Free Spins during which all wins are tripled.
Psychedelic fire hydrants tell you it's bonus time - choose up to 5 from a selection of 13 multi-colored hydrants and you could release a flood of money with great bonuses that carry a 3x multiplier. The rest of the gang can all contribute to your success in their own way, so look out for the bejeweled and soft-eyed Fi Fi, Knuckle and Duster the two tough Dobermans, Pug the Dog Father's henchman and a belligerent bull terrier known to the gang simply as The Cleaner!
Maximum payouts achievable of up to 32,500. are possible in the main game, with
2,650. available in bonuses and 97,500. possible through the Free Spin feature.
Dog Father is a multi-featured game that will give players a good crack at rewards whilst providing plenty of light-hearted entertainment in the best "big" slot tradition, so welcome to the doggie dynasty where the password is Badabing, Badaboom.

3) Supe It Up:
This advanced 5 reel, 25 pay-line video slot has every accessory imaginable: Wild and Scatter opportunities, a great Free Spin that can deliver 30 free spins (and then more spins within spins), a multiplier up to 6x and a 50-50 Gamble chance. Not only that, with the help of the Wild, winning combinations are doubled. Hit the optional Gamble facility, and winnings can be doubled or even quadrupled.
Check out the cool, hotrod lifestyle graphics on this unique game and watch out for the Supe It Up Master of Ceremonies, who can provide the turbo boost to help players to ‘Supe It Up’ to the max. There's a wide betting range on the game from as little as 1 cent to 0.25 at ten coins per pay-line, a maximum bet of 62.50 that could put players in line for the top jackpot of 25,000 or even 150,000. with the full benefit of those magical free Spins.

4) Bars & Stripes:
As American as pumpkin pie, the Statue of Liberty and the Thanksgiving turkey that feature in its brilliantly colored graphics.
This slot is on the five reel, 25 pay-line platform that has become so popular, featuring Wild and Scatter rewards, and a pick three of five on-screen bonus feature activated when Uncle Sam's top hat triggers this great opportunity to pull in more dollars.
Players can bet up to 250. if they’re aiming for top rewards like the maximum jackpot of 50 000. and this can be augmented by up to 47, 500. from a successful bonus round.

5) Nutty Squirrel:
This 5 reel, 20 pay-line barrel of fun gives players Wild and Scatter boosts, and a Nutty new free spins feature.
Nutty Squirrel himself is the wild factor in this game: he appears on reels one and five and his substitution powers can create some cracking wins.  When one or more squirrels substitute in a winning combination, the prize is doubled.
Anywhere between 1 and 20 coins per payline can be wagered through a range of denominations to suit all budgets, with a maximum bet of  200. If a player’s luck is in, that could bring a total reward of up to 200,000. during the feature.

Enjoy your online slots adventure.

Gayle Mitchell's website is: www.contentgambling.com
Gayle Mitchell is the author of Casino Gambling Made Easier books, EBooks, booklets & the Slots Trilogy. Editor of Casino Players Ezine, Free Slots Newsletter.
Her latest book, Easy Casino Gambling: Winning Strategies for the Beginner, will be released in May/07.
This article is published in cooperation with www.contentgambling.com --#1 source for gambling content online.

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Let's go back in time, to the late 1800s. There was gambling then, of course. There seemingly always have been games of chance. Sheep's knuckles fashioned into dice have been found at sites dating to the Roman Empire.

But we're not going that far back. We're going only to the beginnings of slot machines. And in the late 1800s, there were a proliferation of coin-operated gaming devices. There were machines that used cards as symbols, and machines with huge vertical color wheels, in which you'd bet your money on which color the wheel would stop.
Finally, in the late 1890s, there was the Liberty Bell.

Developed by Charles Fey in San Francisco, the Liberty Bell was where slot machines, as we know them begin. Whether you're playing online or offline, with three spinning reels or with five on a video screen, the Liberty Bell is where the games we play today begin.

If you were to see a Liberty Bell machine today --- and there are a few still in existence --- the first thing you'd think would be "slot machine." There would be no wondering what this old device was about. It's instantly recognizable as the type specimen of the games we play today.

Fey's creation was the first recognizably modern slot. Symbols on its three spinning reels included horseshoes, stars, spades, diamonds, hearts and bells. It was so popular that for a time all three-reel slots were referred to as ``Bell machines.''

And while it was the first of the modern slots, the Liberty Bell was not the first of the Bell machines. Fey had an earlier creation, the Card Bell. It was a gaming device, too, but it didn't use horseshoes, stars, bells and such. It used pictures of playing cards as its winning symbols. It was popular, but it was the Liberty Bell that captured the imaginations of the first generation of slot machine fans.

With a casing made of sheet metal on a brass frame, the Liberty Bell was durable and attractive. There was no neon, flashing lights or sound effects, but it was a game that was played by dropping a coin in the slot and pulling the handle to start the reels, just as players have been doing for more than a century. Yes, today it's often a push of the button or a click of the mouse that starts those reels spinning, but the essentials of the game have been there since Fey began it all in the 1890s.

Fey was a German immigrant with a background making instruments for electrical supplies companies. He set up a workshop in his basement in Berkeley, Calif., and it was there that he created many early slot machines.

Other manufacturers quickly followed with their own versions, and slot machines quickly spread through the United States, even in jurisdictions that didn't permit gambling. Many early slots were used as trade simulators by merchants, and paid out golf balls, chewing gum, candy, cigars and more. If a merchant wanted to pay out something more than golf balls to customers with winning spins --- well, that was between the merchant and the customer, if they could get the law to look the other way.

One frequent prize listed on machines in saloons was free drinks. Some versions of the Liberty Bell listed a pay table with a top jackpot of 20 free drinks for three bells. Some poker machines paid as many as 100 free drinks for a royal flush. That's a lot of shots of Old Redeye.

Along the way, many of the symbols we still see on slot machines today came into use and just stayed, even if the reasons for the symbols being there faded with time. The fruit symbols still used on slot machines today come to us from flavors of chewing gum dispensed by the Liberty Bell Gum Fruit slot made by Herbert Mills in Chicago in 1910. Not all the gum symbols survived to modern slot machine use--we see no current machines that use spearmint leaves as a reel symbol.

Three-reel slot machines still frequently use bar symbols --- single bars, double bars, triple bars. That comes by way of the Gum Fruit slot, too. The bar symbol still in use today is identical to the Bell Fruit Gum logo used as a symbol used on early slot machines. The only difference is that nowadays the white lettering on the black bar says ``BAR,'' whereas it used to say ``BELL FRUIT GUM.''

The bar also bears more than a passing resemblance to the Wrigley arrow still used on packages of Spearmint and Doublemint gum. Some early slot machines dispensing Wrigley's gum used the Wrigley arrow as a symbol.

You probably don't think of Charles Fey or the Liberty Bell, of golf balls and free drinks, of Fruit Gum and bar logos, when you play today. They're present nonetheless, a tradition that continues whenever the reels spin.

John Grochowski's website is: www.casinoanswerman.com

John Grochowski's website is: www.casinoanswerman.com
John Grochowski is the author of 7 books on gaming, the latest being the revised edition of The Slot Machine Answer Book. His series of books includes The Video Poker Answer Book, The Craps Answer Book and The Casino Answer Book.
John Grochowski's website is: www.casinoanswerman.com
This article is published in cooperation with www.contentgambling.com --#1 source for gambling content online
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