Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Pokie Machine
Fire up the time circuits and prepare for a most excellent adventure with Californian dudes Bill S. Preston Esq. And Ted Theodore Logan, who zipped around the past in a classic 1989 movie, collecting famous characters to create the best history report in, well,..history.
Although the future of civilisation may not rest on the Bill and Ted pokie, players will enjoy a couple of bonus rounds, lots of images and clips from the film and the chance to win a jackpot of up to 4,000 coins.
Most film-based Poker machines are all singing, all dancing 5 reelers, but this one is a bit unusual, as it's only got 3 reels, 5 paylines and a layout that makes it look like a traditional pub fruit machine. But it still manages to pack a few extras into its sparse number of reels, including two bonus games, cascading reels, stacked symbols and more, making it most non-heinous.
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This game has symbols in 3 columns, each 3 rows high, so there are only 9 symbols on show at any one time. 3 of the paylines run horizontally across, with the other 2 being diagonal lines, while the reels only take up a little more than half of the screen, with a detailed paytable filling the right hand side.
So there's no excuse for not knowing what prizes are heading your way for any particular combination of symbols. Being a 3 reel game, full lines of identical symbols are needed to trigger a payout, and the paytable lists each in turn, along with how much players will win. Should more than a single winning combination appear after a spin, players get paid for all complete lines.
The lowest values are attached to historical figures, but at least characters like Napoleon and Genghis Kahn are given less worth than Abraham Lincoln, with 2x, 5x, and 10x the total bet being awarded respectively.
Next up is Rufus, the laid-back guide from the future who helps Bill and Ted throughout their journey to the past, and he's worth 20x the total wager per spin, while our hapless heroes pay out 50x when they land across a line.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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Lots of Microgaming pokies have the Cascading Reels feature, and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is one of them. Any symbols that make up a win will explode, leaving empty spaces for any symbols above to drop down in to, which in turn leaves room for new symbols to appear from above. This can lead to another win without the player needing to place a bet, and the whole process can in theory repeat itself over and over.
Symbols can also appear stacked on a reel, meaning that 3 of the same type can be on top of each other, which can go some way to helping to complete additional winning spins.
A few extra symbols are there to trigger big wins and the side games, with the logo of Bill and Ted's history-changing rock band Wyld Stallions being a logical choice for a wild symbol. It's got a couple of helpful features, with a big 1000x the bet value awarded for a full line of wilds, plus of course, it's got the ability to substitute for another base symbols if it helps to complete a winning line.
Bonus games are triggered by their own scatter symbols, with the time-travelling phone box starting a trip through the circuits of time whenever 3 appear at once. In this bonus game, players travel around zapping planets and earning free spins along the way, which can lead to some big multiplier payouts of anywhere between 10x and 100x the bet value.
Next up is a Guitar Bonus round that begins randomly after a winning spin, or at the end of a Cascading Reels feature. Looking a bit like the Guitar Hero game, players need to strike the right chords with bolts of lightning which awards a number of free spins depending on how awesome the tune is. Again, there are some big multipliers to grab here, with up to 500x the total bet amount being the most excellent result.
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Despite having an unusual layout for this type of game, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure enjoys many of the great features normally found on 5 reel pokies. So get over the design and players could find that the Cascading Reels, the bonus games and indeed the whole fun theme to be enough to turn this one into a favourite.