Vegas, Baby! Pokies
The golden era of gambling in Las Vegas has been captured in the Vegas, Baby!pokie from IGT. As the home of casino games, Las Vegas naturally turns up in a number of games, and this is a nice example that comes with some extras such as wild substitutions, scatter pays and a richer free spins game that should all add up to lots of winning rounds.
Loosely designed around the famous Stardust hotel and casino, with the game title and decorative stars in a similar style, it’s clearly based around the heydays of the 1950’s and 1960’s, when Frank Sinatra crooned away in the casino ballrooms and the Rat Pack ruled the streets.
A classic 5-reel, 20 payline format sees colourful symbols of gamblers, a wedding chapel, dancer and piles of cash spinning up the higher value wins, with the traditional playing card symbols creating the lower value winning lines. With the exception of scatter awards and wild substitutions, players will need to land 3 or more of a symbol type across adjacent reels running from the left side to win anything.
Playing Vegas, Baby!
It’s possible to play just 1 of the 20 lines, but this means players will be waiting a long time before they win anything as any combinations landing on the other 19 lines won’t count, so most will opt to activate all parts of the game which means a minimum stake of 0.20. The most that can be wagered on a spin is 100.00.
Although the 9, 10, J, Q, K and A symbols have been seen on many other games, in this case, they have been subtly re-designed to look as if they are parts of a brightly lit sign and each is adorned with a few stars just to add to the effect. Just 2 examples of the 9 symbol are enough to win 2x the line bet, while 3, 4 or 5 of them are worth 5x, 25x and 100x respectively, values that are shared with the 10, J and Q. The K differs only when landing on 4 reels, as this pays out 50x, and the A is valued at 10x, 50x or 125x the line bet when landing across 3, 4 and 5 reels.
Cocktails look tasty and the cocktail symbol will pay some tasty wins when landing across the reels, as there’s 10x, 50x or 250x the line bet paid out, while there’s 10x, 75x and 250x for the dancer symbol appearing across an active line. The wedding chapel is an icon of Las Vegas and will be worth 15x, 100x or 400x, but the biggest payouts come from the happy gamblers and their piles of winnings, each of which returns 2x when landing on just reels 1 and 2, or 25x, 100x and 750x when stopping across more reels.
Vegas, Baby!
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Bonus Features
The famous Welcome to Wonderful Las Vegas sign has been adapted in to a Welcome to Vegas, Baby! symbol and this is both the highest value icon, paying from 10x to 2000x the line bet, and a wild that will be able to act as any other, apart from the scatter. When it falls in the right places, it can complete winning combinations, but also doubles the amount that would have been won had the line been made without the help of the wild.
Any 3, 4 or 5 of the Bonus symbol appearing across the reels will trigger 15 free spins, but not until a scatter award has been paid out. Just 2 Bonus scatter symbols will be worth 2x the total bet, 3 of them will not only be enough to start the free games, but also enough for a 5x return, 4 scatters will pay out 20x and if 5 scatters land in any positions at once, the reward is 100x the triggering bet.
During the free spins, any wins are tripled in value and if 3 or more Bonus symbols land in any spin, a further 15 games will play out after any still left in the current round have finished, with a possible maximum of 180 games in total.
The Verdict
The bright lights and excitement of Las Vegas have been attracting visitors since the late 1940’s and Vegas, Baby! looks set to attract players for some time to come. The design is perhaps a little restrained, with the playing card symbols filling much of the game, but there’s nothing particularly wrong about it, just nothing very exciting either.
The bonus features however, are a cut above, with wild wins doubled and any free spins win being tripled, so anyone who likes the bright lights of Sin City should enjoy placing bets on this pokie.