Jungle Jim Pokie
Although a sequel to this pokie has been released, the original Jungle Jim game shouldn’t be forgotten, as it comes with some fun cartoon images, high paying combinations of symbols, wild substitutions and a rewarding free spins round.
Jungle Jim is a square-jawed heroic figure who is accompanied through the forests by a stuffy-looking professor and a glamorous assistant along with various nasty beasties, although there’s no real back story to the game, just some nice images across the 5 reels.
Beating a Path to the Game
Those reels pretty much fill the screen, with just the hint of a jungle in the background and the title below them. Underneath it all is the set of control buttons which players use to determine how much they want to stake per spin. The options are to activate any number of paylines, from just 1 to all 15, and to fix the amount placed on each line from 0.01 to a maximum of 5.00 for a potential bet size of 45.00.
There’s also an ‘Expert’ option that lets the reels spin automatically for a number of times, while they can be set to stop once a big enough win has been spun up, or the balance has dropped to a certain level.
The actual symbols are all part of the theme, so the popular playing card icons have been left out here and the lower value ones are now things like a deadly looking plant and a vicious fish which are worth between 5x and 100x the line bet when 3 to 5 of them land on any active line, on adjacent reels running from the left one.
Other symbols are a huge purple spider and a stripy snake, while moving up the values, players only need to get 2 or more of the same symbols in a line to win a prize. So the black panther will be worth from 4x the line bet to 400x when between 2 and 5 land in the right spots across the reels, while the assistant is valued at 4x to 500x for the same combinations.
The professor can be worth 750x for a full line across the reels, while Jim himself is the most rewarding of the standard symbols, paying out 5x the amount staked per line when he lands in just 2 spots and a nice 1500x when he fills the whole of an active payline.
Jungle Jim
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Drumming up Bonuses
To add some variety to the run of play and hopefully boost the bankrolls of anyone at the game, Jungle Jim comes with a couple of bonus symbols such as the image of the jungle which is wild. This means that it can complete winning lines by substituting for other symbols, with the exception of the scatter and bonus ones, while it’s also the highest value icon when making up a line on its own, with up to 4000x being paid out.
The image of a log and spears is a scatter symbol (although the word ‘Scatter’ written in big letters across it should also be a clue.) This symbol doesn’t need to land in any particular place to be worth a prize and as long as 3 or more turn up, wins of 3x to 75x the total bet per spin will be awarded.
There’s a free spins game triggered by the bonus symbol landing across 3 or more reels on an active line, while it’s also worth up to 50x the line bet that’s paid out before the spins commence, guaranteeing some sort of win. Up to 10 spins are awarded and should any winning combinations land during them the base value of the prize will be multiplied by 5x, although they can’t be re-triggered, so once they have finished players will go back to the main game.
The Verdict on Jungle Jim
Bright colours and cartoon style symbols are the immediate attraction of Jungle Jim, but it’s got some pretty rewarding features that seem to appear quite often. Maybe a couple of extra features such as wild multipliers or a gamble game would have added to the fun, but those are fairly minor omissions and shouldn’t put off anyone looking for a decent pokie, even though it may be a getting on a bit.